Tongue's A Waggin'
Had a great weekend – was sunny long enough to mow down my own private Amazon rain forest, played with the cockashit and groodle outside and took a few photos. ON the down side, I’ve lost my canon camera battery charger and have turned the house upside down looking for it … no avail. I eventually ordered a new one off Ebay yesterday. In the meantime, I used my old Canon Powershot. It’s a neat sturdy little point and click but it’s cantankerous at times. Most of the shots this weekend have too much grain or noise in them even though it’s a 10 megapixel camera and I purposely don’t use the ‘zoom’. If anyone can tell me why this little camera does this … please advise (you can see the EXIF data on the fickr link).
This is a shot of Indy (the Groodle) after he had fetched the tennis ball a few times. I edited the photo in the GIMP to try and reduce the grainy appearance by use of an alpha mask and posterising the print.
Below is the cockashit, Mojo. She’s much more difficult to photograph cause she doesn’t stay still and the camera does not like her all black features. She’s begging for me to throw the ball here.
Laugh Today – It's Good For You
(willow having a good ol’ laugh)
- I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen
- At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston
- Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown
- Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher
- Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts,” Saturday Night Live
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings
- Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle
- What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
- So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport
- Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
- What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
- When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~Irish Proverb
- Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart
- A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan
