soeurs du jour

Iphone Camera

Margie has sent us something. 

If I didn't know that she had no way of sending us photos except by way of her Iphone I would have sworn that she took this with her D40.

It's raining here (again) but we barbecued anyway.   There is nothing better than potato salad and barbecued steak for dinner.   I love summer.   Thunder storms, steak, salad, fresh berries for dessert and a cool night to sleep in fresh sheets. Really, could you ask for anything more?

Does anyone want to venture a guess as to when Margela is going to drag herself home from the cottage?  She tells me she's been writing posts every day, she just can't upload them!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  I am so glad you're here to keep me company.

xo

Kath

Macro Monday Blue Fish

I was thinking about Macro Monday when I was putting the laundry away, casting about for ideas when .... there he was, waiting patiently to be my model, floating on his reflection in the bookcase.

 One fish ... Blue Fish.

Happy Macro Monday.

Visit Lisa for more Macro Monday.

xo

Kath

Geraniums on a Wall - 2009

Geraniums on a Wall 2009

I'm seeing progress.

Did you have a glorious Saturday?  I hope so because I did.

If yesterday was packed with chores and running hither and thither, why not take some time today (or the whole day if you can) and just let yourself rest for a bit.

I did a trial run yesterday because I didn't want to be dispensing bad advice and I can tell you, it feels really good to just stop.  So good in fact I'm going to do it again today. 

Have a restful day.

xo

Kath

I never promised you a rose garden ....

No one ever promised me a rose garden and I never dreamed that I would have one.   But have one I do (listen to me, I sound like Yoda, what the heck?)  and I love it (my rose garden not sounding like Yoda).   Anyhow,  I dashed out at 9:00 last night and took some pics for you. Despite all my higher edumacation, I shot on auto with the flash ...  

 

This is the newest addition, George Burns.   The photo does not do this rose justice, my rose nursery guy (yes I have a rose nursery guy) told me that no one buys this bush until it is in bloom because the photos  on the tag just don't look right.   Now there's a project for me, I should take a perfect capture and sell it to the rose tag printing people.

This pure white rose is called Memoire.

An old fashioned pink that smells heavenly, I don't know the name, it is one of the original roses. 

I'm going to go take the photo of the wall today.   I will figure out the correct shutter speed and aperture and use the tripod.  Stay tuned.

Have a happy Saturday!

xo

Kath

This time last year and the year before that ....

I went back in time to see what was doing at the end of June, 2007

Taking pics with the Canon Elph Point and Shoot.

oh and look

June 2008 same wall, but with the Nikon ... likely on auto.

I am going to go back this weekend and make it a triple!

Apparently margie can read us on her iphone, she just can't post.  We talked last night and she wanted the names of two books Morningside Heights by Cheryl Mendelson and The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston (who is my new favourite Canadian author by the way - thanks Sarah for giving me Colony of Unrequited Dreams).  She wanted me to call in sick to work and get in the car and drive to the cottage.  Oh how I would have loved to but it is not in the cards this weekend.  Besides, if I went to the cottage, who would mind the blog???

Happy Friday everyone.

xo

Kath

Love Thursday Summer Pleasures

 

I indulged myself.   This was my dinner last night.

Then I had a popsicle and lemonade for dessert.

Summer pleasures.

Happy Love Thursday.

xo

Kath

night time photography & a boring email

So, yesterday I promised some witty repartee, the soeurs talking.  Alas, I had a busy day at work and the other one had a busy day at the cottage.  Here ya go, as promised, nuttin

6:00 am. Margie:  On the dock for coffee.

9:00 a.m.  Kath:  In the office, under the fluorescent lights. you win

9:42  margie:  boat fixed. Going to the dump. Al and Meredyth on their way up. Yay. Need gas for the boat.  And. Beer 

some time later margie :  A. getting crap for not recycling.  dump guy is giving him hell. 

10:45  Kath:   LCBO (remember, that is the only place we can buy wine and liquor!) goes on strike tonight - might want to stock up in Haliburton - Why am I not on my way up? My hair looks even more fab today.

 

Later: Margie,:  2 cases of wine

 

kath:  whew .... don't get all worked up and drink 3 bottles tonight just because you have lots LOL

 

Margie:  Don't worry. Kids are here I am in waitress mode. Oh and cook mode and cleaner mode. LOL. 

 And that ends something that probably only means something

to us!   LOL

In the meantime,  here's what we did at school last night:

Is that cool or what?   Slow shutter speed, a tripod, two external flashes ... and you too can achieve this.

xo

Kath

Runs in the Family

I opened yesterday's post and was charmed by the photos of Sarah and the boys. But something was bugging me, a memory, had I seen that photo before?   No, impossible, Margie just took it on the weekend. 

What was it?   I came home and went through the photo albums and found these.

Margie's two eldest boys, my nephews, Lou & Sam.   A bath photo and a hugging photo.  I knew I had seen that photo before, but it was two photos combined in my memory.  The back of the photo says January 1986 so it must have been Louie's birthday.  Breakfast in bed was de rigeur on your birthday.  Sam is the babies' father. Louie is their Uncle. I would say favourite Uncle, but there is another Uncle, Al, and I know that they couldn't choose a favourite, the same way I couldn't choose a favourite nephew.  

She, the sister, the damn sister as I called her all day yesterday is at the cottage.  I am jealous therefore she is my damn sister because she is at the cottage and I am not.  She has no phone and as such no dialup.    I think it's going to be me.  All week here at Soeurs all alone, half a soeurs. 

At the end of the day yesterday she emailed me from her iphone and said, "You should just reproduce our emails all day - that could be your post".  Because seriously, there was much hilarity in our writings.   But I had already deleted for the day.   Tomorrow, I'm saving them so you can see what we're like together!

Just wait, we'll be totally boring and I'll produce a post that says, Her:  "What are you doing?"  Me:  "Nothing."  Her:  "Oh, okay ttyl".  Or we'll be on ... you'll just have to check in and see.

xo Kath

*haha, I just noticed how Margie matched the pink soap with the pink bathroom with her pink children ... such a decorator girl!

monday mosaic

i have wanted to make a monday mosaic for several weeks now.

this gorgeous girl is my daughter in law, sarah.  

mother of the babies.

xo margie

Summer!

Well, hello first day of summer.  I am so glad you're here.  Make yourself at home and feel free to stay until, oh, say, next June?  Does that work for you? It would sure work for me.

I'm writing this Saturday night, it rained all day and all night.   I love a rainy day on the weekend every now and then.  It forces me to stay indoors -  I am happy that the dusting is done and things are looking sparkly!  

I do hope it stops raining for the longest day of the year. I would love to finish up the last bit of gardening and move into maintenance mode for the rest of the summer.

Barry was using the camera last, it took me a while to figure this one out, it's a picture of his desktop taken on an angle so that the colours look weird.   I think it is pretty nifty!

Happy Sunday and wish the Dads in your life Happy Father's Day from the Soeurs ....

xo

Kath