I Am A Camera

I had a camera, and, sadly, it has decided to no longer work.


So I am making do with Howard's large and lumbering Nikon D3000,
which is way more camera than I am used to using.

I have to admit, he takes a nice picture, that Nikon fella.

It's just hard to be discreet, you know?

Like on Friday when I was trying to photograph the hermit's place on top of the hill

with the "Savage Dog" sign on the gate . . . well, that's a tale for another time.

Today's tale is a re-run, from last winter, when my little Canon went walkabout in the bush

for several weeks until I found it hiding in the bottom of an unused handbag.

In those weeks, I made playground friends with the Nikon, and posted about it.

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(From February 15, 2011)

My camera is still A.W.O.L.

Luckily Howard has a camera, and although it is big and scary,
and weighs a ton, this morning he kindly showed me how to use it . . . 

Here is the result.

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 (Fanfare and flourish.)

I hereby declare this a day for Pretty Things.

Among the prettiest: the roses Howard sent me for Valentine's Day.

They are the most gorgeous true red, and not fully opened yet so they'll last a good many days.

How beautiful; nothing we fashion can touch Nature's style.

But we'll give it a shot.

Let's move those roses out of the kitchen -- we'll lop off their skinny legs and plop them

into my favorite rose bowl -- and then we'll decide what to do with them.

  Out of the kitchen you go!

 As long as today is Pretty Things Day. . .

what could be prettier than things that cost only a dollar?

 I always think that being cheap inexpensive just makes something more attractive.

Ladies, do not tell this to my husband.  Or yours.

Or, come to think of it, your unmarried daughters.

If there weren't already a Dollar Tree around the corner from That Old House, I'd have to invent one.

Look at what hopped into my cart on my last visit a few weeks ago:

Mirror-and-ruby-glass votive holders.

I mean, really!

Eureka!

Red and shiny.

I wanted to take their glamour shots last night, in the dark,

but I didn't know how to use the camera then.  Still don't, if I'm honest.

Red Valentine's roses pair perfectly with shiny candleholders from Dollar Tree, right?

But we knew that all along, now, didn't we?

Let's put the roses where they can be enjoyed.  By me.

Ah . . . now this is bliss.

 A pot of good black coffee, some pretty, shiny things, several new decorating books I treated myself
to before Christmas, and the time to enjoy it and let the tension headaches of the past two weeks fade away.

 That's a vintage Wedgwood Patrician mold cup and saucer, in the Bognor design.
Embossed and hand painted.

 Howard's Mom gave me the white coffee pot.
And you already know where the votive holder came from!

 Books to dream over, and the pillow my sister Peg made for me last winter.  Perfect.

I'll share the bliss with the Snowman family inhabiting the mantel.

I like to hold over holiday reds and wintry snowmen until the end of February.

 They brighten bleak winter days.

 And snowmen just look so darn silly that I can't resist them.

I'll be back.  After I have my coffee.

I'm afraid I've only set out a cup for one today.

 Go get your own!  You know where the kitchen is. -- Cass

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