thank you thank you thank you!

As I said in my title, like a generic plastic shopping bag: Thank you, thank you, thank you! For your comments. They made me ever so happy!

So, what has been going on?

- My aunt & co. came down for Thanksgiving. Yay!
- It rained for two days straight. Yay!
- We are almost finished with season one of Pushing Daisies. *sad*
- I'm almost done with Jamie's pretty scarf. Yay!
- I helped shoot a wedding with one of Sara's photographer friends. Yay!
- I got to keep Sara's camera at my house, with all of her super awesome lenses, or at least the one super awesome lens. Yay!
- And, of course, Thanksgiving. I've had a super lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Our multi-mixy families got together for our third annual Thanksgiving - only this time there were so many of us that we had to graduate to a space larger than the Green Bean. So, we set up at the Pres. church!
- And I made a video of the big par-tay.

Enjoy!

I'll be posting a video of our Christmas decoration efforts soon. :) Now I'm off to either watch the adorable first season of Pushing Daisies (officially the cutest show since infinity) or season two of Star Trek, Next Generation.

hello, again

Hi there!

Since my demographic (that is what Quinn would say) is starting to get onto me about lack of blog activity, I'm posting a post.

Ladies and gentlemen, children and monsters! I am honored to announce the reinstatement of my own movie review blog! Yay...

See, it even got revamped, with gorgeous colors (in my humble opinion) and a brand new header! For some reason, I never made a header for my movie blog. Just like photographers never take pictures of themselves and cooks don't make themselves dinner. Or that's how it seems to go, anyway.

Why, you may ask, did I decide to start reviewing again? Did Roger Ebert inspire me, with his lovely square face? No, though I do like his reviews. It was the fact that Mother and I have found a new mini series to obsess over! Oo yay! And a new lovely British actor.

I simply had to review it, and so, here we go! Let's hope that I can keep it up, for your amusement. But here's the deal, peeps. I want some commenting going on. If you comment on my posts, I'll post more posts, because I like posting, but sometimes it seems boring to post posts, but if you post comments on my post I'll post more posts. Savvy? Sweet.

Lots of love and general affection,
- your devoted authoress

project: griffin's camera // day 2

For the second day of my fun with Griffin's camera, we happened to go to Tallulah Gorge - which is absolutely gorgeous (haha) in the autumn. Here are the pictures!

Before we went to the gorge, we went to a little roadside outlook with a cute shop. I liked this scale. It was anciennnnnt. But why is there a mirror? Hmm, while I'm weighing my fortune, let's see how my jeans look today...





Then we had lunch...


It did consist of more than Organic Blue Sky Ginger Ale. But it is the best ginger ale around...









For those of you that haven't visited the gorge before, there is this really amazing walk down the mountain. It's a very long staircase that just winds down the side of the mountain, leading to a suspension bridge, which spans gorge. If you can read that itsy bitsy picture, you'll see that there is 620 steps to the bridge, but 1062 altogether, if you go over the bridge and down to Hurricane Falls. Going *down* the steps is as easy as pie (whatever that means... just makes me think of Pushing Daisies), but going back up is...



This gorge is famous for a crazy tightrope walker who walked across the gorge. One sign said that he did two headstands during his walk. That's some serious business.



We used to go to the gorge every Wednesday when we lived closer. We got so good at walking the steps that we wouldn't even break a sweat going up!





Only several hundred feet of open air under my feet, which are standing on 2x4 slats, nailed to three different beams and held up by hundreds of feet worth of suspension cable. The bridge shakes when you walk across it.

So, we had a great time! We could barely make it up the stairs again...

project: griffin's camera // day 1

Aren't the colors just...awesome? I wondered how I could capture fall in a more original way; the colors weren't a gorgeous when sharply in focus. But I absolutely love this array of lovely colors. One day I'm going to try to paint something like that.

Although I've been brought up around cameras, the only camera that I've been comfortable using is Mom's Fuji Finepix 6mp point-and-shoot. I've used Sara's cameras a lot, but not consistently enough to grasp a smooth operation skill. So, my very lovely brother, Griffin, offered to let me borrow his Canon Rebel XT (thanks so muchhhh). Today I decided to experiment with it and see what wonders I could create with an 18-55 mm, 3.5-5.6 lens, a wide-angle attachment, and a macro filter.

Here is the excessive collection of what I came up with. ^.^


This was really fun. When we realized that the macro and wide-angle attachments could come apart (they were meant to be used as one attachment), we were just using our eyes to look around and found that this created a fun picture. Like a magnifying glass (which is what a macro filter is), the macro attachment makes people turn upside down if you stand far enough away. So in this pic, I'm holding the macro, he's holding the wide-angle. :)


Vice versa. I did find it entertaining that it looks as though his thumb morphs into a second hand.


Pretty sunspots.


Somehow, dandelion puffs never bore me.


A wishie maker!


This is Little Chick. She's an odd duck. Chicken. Thing.




Isn't that pretty?

earl baldwin

I was looking through my first blog posts, and when I got to this post, I cracked myself up. That tobacco is pretty funny.

Then I noticed something. See how it says "made famous by the first Earl Baldwin."

Hmmm... The "first" Earl Baldwin.

Just think... there was more than one Earl Baldwin.

Sad situation. (as Sara always says.)

Good night!
-caroline

p.s. earl baldwin sounds like a name that a morbid nursery rhyme should be made for.