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The day of the super moon that everyone had been telling me about, the morning was promising that we might have a clear sky Saturday night. I got up early to go to a T-shirt sales from one of the manufacturing companies in Maiden, all T-shirts were selling for $1 to $3 each. I think they might try to get rid of their inventory before the fiscal year end.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/13, 1/400sec, ISO 400, focal length 24mm, evaluative metering
My niece got a few of these three quarter sleeve T-shirts, and Lee got several T-shirts and a hoodie sweater around her waist for $1 each.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/2000sec, ISO 400, focal length 60mm, evaluative metering
Lee took my Rollerblade to my Dad’s house, she could comfortably fit into a size 8.5 now.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 75mm, evaluative metering
She was teaching my niece how to rollerblading, kids pick things up fast these days. I actually started out with roller skate when I was little living in Brooklyn, New York. There’s not a lot to do growing up in the city and I got really good at it, even had races with some of the neighborhood kids skating backward, of course I had many scars to prove it as well.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/3200sec, ISO 400, focal length 50mm, evaluative metering
It has been a while since I visited Bo’s mom, and Bo came home with these fresh eggs for my dad on Friday. I see there are still blue eggs laid by Bo’s Americana hens.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/200sec, ISO 400, focal length 58mm, evaluative metering
We ate healthy on Saturday, a Lao noodle vegetable wrap with fresh mint and parsley from my Dad’s garden. I stir-fry the chicken and pork, and we had the Romaine lettuce as the wrap with spicy peanut dipping sauce.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/20sec, ISO 400, focal length 73mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted
My mom’s Orchid is in the 8th week of blooming, can’t believe that it has been 2 months and still as pretty as ever.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/320sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted
My dad’s seedlings got a little bigger.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/2000sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted
He has 2 crab apple trees, this one that was so abundant last year doesn’t look like it would bear many fruits this year.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/640sec, ISO 400, focal length 67mm, evaluative metering
And this other tree looks like it would but the fruits are extremely tiny.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 65mm, evaluative metering
I haven’t seen any Bee this year but the birds are everywhere now, especially in my Dad’s backyard. This one is a Robin, and I think it might be a male since the chest color is very rich.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/8sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering , closeup cropped
I remember planting these many years ago, it’s nice to see them come up year after year.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 105mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 105mm, evaluative metering
The housing market is suffering in our area. This house and many other houses in my Dad’s neighborhood have to constantly reducing the selling price and even that no one would buy. The economy is suffering everywhere, but the problem seems so minimal now comparing to what is going on in other parts of the world.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/125sec, ISO 400, focal length 24mm, evaluative metering
My second sister and I had a nice walk, I think the pollen is finally catching up to me.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/160sec, ISO 400, focal length 80mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/250sec, ISO 400, focal length 60mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/320sec, ISO 400, focal length 97mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/50sec, ISO 400, focal length 47mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/6.3, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 75mm, evaluative metering
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/100sec, ISO 400, focal length 96mm, evaluative metering
This was all I saw of the super moon. I had a good 5 minutes of clear shot and it vanished into the thick dark cloud. The photo was taken from my Dad’s driveway at 7:56 pm (19:56).
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1.6sec, ISO 800, focal length 28mm, spot metering, tripod mounted
So they say that the high in gas price is because of crude oil prices soar on political strife in North Africa and the Middle East.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO 400, focal length 82mm, evaluative metering
Just at lunch time I was paying $3.25 per gallon for Unleaded, and this evening it has already increased to $3.29 per gallon. It was $2.99 per gallon last week by the way.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO 400, focal length 75mm, cropped, evaluative metering
This flower is so fragile, yesterday’s storm had bruised and torn the petals apart. I guess very much like the storms of life that are raging, made me wonder what stage some of us are facing right now. Is it the calm before the storm? In the midst of the storm? or after the storm. Regardless of the stage that you are in, just remember that if you survived life goes on. Just look at this flower below, as beautiful as ever.
Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO 400, focal length 105mm, cropped, evaluative metering
Back to the prices of gas, some might be thinking about taking other alternative transportation. What about the old reliable legs. It’s made for walking and running, it will definitely get you from point A to point B.
About the tattoo, this belongs to one of my co-workers. She chose a butterfly tattoo with names of her family members on the wings, all female of course and her dad’s initial as the body. The tattoo looks real neat, although quiet painful to have done. Butterfly tattoos are primarily female tattoos, the butterfly itself is pretty and feminine, the tattoos on the other hand have a lot of meanings such as a symbol of rebirth and transformation, symbolizes a new life, a symbol of freedom, or symbolizes a person’s soul. As for my co-worker, she has gone through a lot and the tattoo has a special meaning to her.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/20sec, ISO 400, focal length 98mm, evaluative metering
I know what she is thinking, beat me to the broomstick.
Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/15sec, ISO 400, focal length 70mm, evaluative metering
I’m sure he has no worries whether the prices of gas rise or fall.
Photo from Laos, taken November 2008 in Paksun
This is not a bad choice of transportation either, and since I live in the country I could probably get away with it. I need to trade my car in for a real horse power.
Photo at Lazy 5 Ranch, taken in June 2009
And don’t forget about my buddy back home.
Photo from Laos, taken November 2008
If you are fortunate enough to have a nice weather like we do, you will see the moon visible before dusk and it appears to be bigger than normal. It’s only a month away from the harvest moon, and this month’s moon is called the Sturgeon Moon. The name was given by the North American fishing tribes since the sturgeon species were abundant during the month of August. It’s also been called the green corn moon, the grain moon, and the red moon for the reddish hue as it appears in my photo taken yesterday. Full moon this month will be on Tuesday August 24th.
Notice there is a For Sale sign at one of the houses on the left hand side, apparently this is not the only one in this neighborhood as we drove around and saw at least 25 houses on the market. The housing in our area has appreciated in value by a small percentage which is a good thing, but I’m also seeing more and more houses on the market and some are foreclosure. The situation is not getting any better and small businesses are suffering from cash flow problems, sounds like everyone’s problem these days. I remind myself each day to live within my means.
This was taken with a Canon T2i, Aperture Priority, f/22, 1/4sec, ISO-200, Exposure bias 0, focal length 45mm, pattern metering mode, white balance cloudy, tripod mounted. The image was slightly out of focus, but it came out better than the one in sharp focus.
I’ve never posted an HD video here before, mainly because this free version of WP doesn’t allow me to adjust the viewing screen so it’s super tiny. Also it might be hard to view if you have a slow internet connection, so most likely I will not load a 1080HD video again in Vimeo.
I learned something new whilst making this video. I didn’t know before that I could overlap clips, I just have to mute one of them and I choose to do a full screen overlap instead of a tiny screen at the corner. Click here to view a bigger screen at vimeo.
My sister told me that Demi Lovato was performing at our mall last Saturday and we went since Lee is a huge fan of hers. I guess she misunderstood by this poster, and so were many people that went there in hoping to meet Demi in person.
It was enter for a chance to meet Demi Lovato!
We saw Lyra Shines performing instead and she has a great voice.
The two guitarists.
Lee got a free black tank top from the concert, she puts it on right away.
I’m not an economist, but the economy has not picked up any in our area and this is a way to get young people to come out and shop. Things are looking kind of gloomy lately, but the good thing that came out from this is that it will be a tax free back to school shopping this weekend, so don’t spend too much money and save some for a rainy day.
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