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Avatar in 3D

 

Last night we went to see Avatar in 3D.  We haven't been to the movies in a long time, unfortunately movies don't tend to have a long run in the theatre in our nearest city and by the time we get organized to go, the movie has gone. Barry is back at work and rehearsals have started meaning that very soon many of his evenings will be occupied. Last year we instituted a date night, we pick one free night, sometimes the only free night, in the week and do something. 

Avatar was wonderful and magical.  It was my first experience watching a movie in 3D and I was charmed by it. The colours and the flora & fauna in the movie inspired me. I wanted to come home and make a picture that looked just like THAT! I quickly ran the amarylis photo through Lightroom using a Lomo preset. I'll have to play more with that later. The message in the movie is a strong, good versus evil, love conquers and we are all one joined by a network, which, of course, reminded me of our blog and the network of wonderful magic that we have built here.

Oh, I am sappy this morning aren't I? We're in for a day of (continued) tidying as we get ready to list the house again tonight and I'm cooking for the week.  Margie has found this great blog, Closet Cooking, find the Aztec soup recipe on that site and make it, it's a keeper recipe for sure. Today, I've chosen to make carrot, sweet potato, red lentil curried soup from Dinner with Julie.  

I just noticed when I was linking that those are both Canadian sites. Which of course, slap shots me like a puck into the U.S. net, into the rest of our day. Hockey and the closing ceremonies!  Go Canada! I am so proud, we done good!

xo

Kath

Edited:  I'm mad and upset now. I just discovered that I mailed a hand knit baby sweater to the wrong address. I hope that the people who received it in error are kind enough to send it back. The good news is that I know which wrong address I sent it to and the baby's Dad, our very good friend, is a rather large man, an opera singer and when he lands on their doorstep and sings out his questions, I imagine he will find out what happened. In the meantime, I will rely on the message of Avatar that good will conquer and we will get the sweater back.

more gold

 

now we have not just more gold,

but the most gold.

whatever will we do with our time when these olympics finish?

will we continue to wear our olympic mittens? 

will we still sport our canadian toques?  

will we continue to boast that we love 

molson canadian and that it is really our beer of choice?  

i know one thing, we will never be the same.

xo margie

601 and counting

 

When I opened typepad today I noticed that Margie had presented our 600th post yesterday. Earlier in the week I noticed that our car turned over 200,200 km which made me strangely happy, although it does mean our car is very old. 600 posts does not mean that our blog is very old. It still feels very new to me and that is obviously a good thing because it means I enjoy it. I also really enjoyed that Margie wrote a bit more yesterday. The Soeurs had fallen into a bad habit of not really talking here, obviously even to each other because Margie and I hadn't talked about Love Thursday.  And we do love to talk!

Tonight I find myself home alone for the first time in m any  months. It was okay for the first half hour or so and then I started to wonder how I used to do this, I was single for a very long time but of course, I didn't live alone, the dog was there to keep me company. I know I love being by myself and once that, "this hasn't happened in a while" feeling passed, I found my groove, rode the bike, played with the nest photo and am going upstairs in a minute to have dinner, likely cereal.  Cereal for dinner is the best.  And then, I might, I just might crawl into bed for the evening and read!  

I have found a couple of e-courses that sound interesting and already have a little e-crush on Susannah Conway and her Unravelling course. The testimonials make me want to sign up right now! Then I found Madelyn Mulvaney at Persisting Stars and she also sounds most excellent. We're too late for Wini's product photography course, but wouldn't it be great if you had an Etsy shop?

I'm over at Vision and Verb today so please pop over and check out my post entitled, "We are NOT Amused!".

xo

Kath

 

love thursday

the soeurs started participating in love thursday just shortly after we launched this blog in june of 2008.  we post about love and hearts and lots of hearts and love every thursday pretty much without fail.  

i sometimes wonder, and i have never asked kath this, if it is a bit of a cop out, sort of like a free day.  you don't have to try too hard, just make sure you have an appropriate photo and write, well you can write whatever and as little as you want.

  

funny thing is, it's not a free day. everywhere my camera and i go, we are both on the lookout for a heart or an expression of love. i like it. it makes me feel good to think about the things i love. 

we need to take great care that our love does not fade.  it can you know and most often it fades when you are not paying attention. yet no matter how careful we think we are being, love manages to lose itself in amongst the hours of the day, hiding behind the things that seem more important and when it doesn't feel appreciated, it just goes away.  

 so if you visit here on thursday,

look up, there might be love right above you.   

xo margie 

And she shouldn't have boasted .....

 

Oh I was so boastful.  When we were in Ottawa I pointed and laughed and said, "We don't have any snow at home!"   And then I came home and it snowed.

Oh I was so boastful.  When we were in Ottawa I walked and showed off and said, "My knee feels great!"   And then I came home and went to physiotherapy.  OUCH.

Oh I was so boastful.   When we were in Ottawa I was so proud of our clean eating program, "We've lost weight!".  And then I came home and had buffalo wing pizza.

Oh I shouldn't have boasted.

That is all in fun of course, although it did snow, I've got a lot of rehab ahead to get myself into good shape and I definitely kickstarted my week with a pretty crazy food choice!

I feel happy, it does my heart good to see our Mom, my sister and her crew even if I only had a few hours with them.  I spent an evening with my girlfriends, we had a fabulous dinner with kids and grandkids.  As the evening wore on, we played albums and darts, drank more wine than was probably sensible, all the while catching up on the news and remembering the old times.  And laughing, laughing our heads off.  It was like a little dream, you wake up far too soon.

You can always trust your friends, so we have a question for you.  Margie and I are thinking of doing an e-course, an eight to twelve week creativity/writing/photography type thing.Has anyone done anything like this? We would love your input because the ones I've seen so far seem fantastic but you know us better than anyone, do you think we're suited?

xo

Kath

Edited: I mean take a course, not teach one!  ;-)

 

personal best

in a week where personal bests abound, i am proud to share my own.

i ran 1.5 kilometres yesterday.   

two weeks ago i ran 1.5 minutes.

please visit me today at 

VISION AND VERB

xo margie

Olympic Macro Monday

 

My Olympic Mittens.

Last week a friend wondered why once every four years he is glued to the television for two weeks when he has absolutely no interest in sports the rest of the time. The Olympics are a phenomenon that certainly draws us in, especially this year when we are proud to host the games. Despite the fact that Vancouver is about 3,000 miles from my home, I still feel like the Olympics are in MY backyard. These games really are the stuff of dreams come true and hopes dashed.  I've felt myself choke up more than once during the last week and a half as I find myself filled with emotion over a win or a loss or even just a heartfelt story of how an athlete got started, the back story is often more interesting than the event itself.

There's an all important hockey game on right now. We watch very little hockey in our house but we would not dream of missing a game like this, in fact, we timed our drive home (6.5 hours) so we could be sure to be on the couch just in time!

It was so nice to see Margie, but as always, far too brief, time for a quick coffee some breakfast, a little gab and big hugs.  I really didn't want to leave.

Lisa hosts macro monday, pop over to her site and where you'll find lots more gold medal worthy shots.

Go Team Canada!!!

xo

Kath

breakfast together

 

i am slicing up bagels.

kath is coming for breakfast.

the soeurs have two hours together.

woo hoo.

xo margie

effort with a capital "E"

 

These birds work hard for their food in the winter. Well, maybe they don't, we put it in the back garden and they fly out of the tree to eat. But they do make the effort to show up.

Margie and I spent a lot of time on the phone this week.  While I was lying in bed she kept me company. We talked a lot about inspiration, vision, blogging, photography, art and what we want. I think I've related these conversations to you before, as always, we never really resolve anything but the talk "therapy" does us good.   She has picked up her camera and I'm packing my camera up into the travelling bag.

The one thing that stuck in my mind from our conversations was that a little effort is required to get something started, effort is required to learn something knew, effort and practice are needed to move you along the path.   I haven't been putting a lot of effort into things lately. Obviously I've cut myself some slack because I've been kneeding rest but this coming week I plan on feeling well enough to put some effort into actually making pictures and writing a bit more. Like Margie, I too want to spend some time creating and doing the things that make me happy.   

It's time to get back to loving the things we do.

Oh, are you wondering why I put the camera in the travelling bag?   I'm going to have Sunday brunch with my sister.   A quick turnaround trip home means we'll be in the same house, if only for a short while.

Have a great weekend. 

xo

Kath

friday confession

i have a confession, i have not been making good use of my camera. yes i took many photos on my recent holidays but i have not been feeling the love. yesterday i spent a frustrating day on the computer, being bounced out of overloaded servers, but it gave me time to think. i'm not sure i had even realized that the love was gone.  

you see, i am not living in my own home right now, in fact we do not even own a home right now. we are living with one of the kids, in his house, waiting for our new condominium to be ready. my things are in storage, and i miss them.  i miss the inspiration my own home gave me. so after the work was done yesterday, i let the tripod out of his case, changed lenses, threw together some props and did this.

 

and this

and this

why would i stop doing this?  

how did i let something i love slip away?

xo margie