Our Sunday Morning - Last Week and Now

As i got so busy last week with making presents and otherwise getting ready for our festivities, i never got around to upload photos, let alone post here. So, here are 2 photos - 1 from what we did last Sunday Morning and what happened today..as we are back home after a whirlwind family visit extravaganza!!

Oh, and Happy Belated Solstice to you as well....

We made truffles for the first time, and wanted to share them as gifts. Last Sunday, we finished them off after doing most of the work Saturday night. We made two kinds - Cream Earl Grey Milk Chocolate (for our non-vegan friends) and Dark Chocolate Fudge. The second recipe i got from jae steele's great book Get it Ripe. I sprinkled it with cinnamon and cocoa but otherwise i followed the recipe. Fun to make, a big process, and a bit messy. I am happy with the taste of both but definitely need to work on my coating technique.
This is Li'l C and i at my parents house this morning. He loves the camera, almost as much as he loved all the family, company, and attention he got this weekend!

Cottage Colours

Meet Our Newest Family Member

After years of struggling with 'okay' photos with my zippy little Sony Cybershot, and years also of 'okay but chancey' film photos with our golden oldie manual Pentax, we biked off to our favourite camera store and bought ourselves a new digital SLR camera. Neither J nor i can believe we bought something so precious and worth so much, but we know it'll be a great investment. And heh, it was used (a year old to be exact), so that cut the cost in half. We did some research, and spoke to our numerous friends who are great photogs, and the Olympus rivals some of the cameras they use, and well, the price fit just that might better into our already tight budget.

So, please meet our new best friend, the Olympus E500, that i will lovingly call 'Edna.' In part, because i would rather call it Edna than 'evolt,' assuming the 'E' stands for that. And partly because what really brought us to buy the camera now was a roll of film that died before we could develop it. We had gone to Camden, Maine, the birthplace of sorts of my favourite poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay. After being there a mere 18 hours, we left, hoping that our fun shots of the town and Edna's commerative statue would remind us of our fun day, and our creative woes would be worth the fuss. Alas, the film got ripped in the camera itself and after trying to get it out, the film was exposed to the light. Grrr...had we had a good digital, we would be lovingly looking at all our pretty photos - all 20 of them!

Here's a sampling of the photos i'll be taking: the picture's not blurry!
So, as this month marks my 2-year anniversary in blogland, i thought that it would be a wonderfuly appropriate time to treat myself to clearer photos, better colour, brighter close-ups, and all around more fun. I can't wait to get started....

First Summer Photo Spread

Here are some recent photos from our past weekend. We had a great 'first weekend of summer' - a garden party where we had to wear white, shopping that included finding this lovely vintage apron, and watching these cute birds play in their new 'house' - hollowed out bread! Genius. If you want to see the photos better, check them out here.