No sign of spring here either, but

Here's a closeup. His name is Herbert. (I think.)

Camera shy....

Since I am not a big runner; if you ever met me you would know my body is made for a lot of things but running is not one of them; I had to come up with a different sort of entry. So here it is, camera shy, in the vanity mirror of the car waiting for dear hubby....

hello next assignment...I am having a hard time with a plug and a flamingo, apparently I have a lot of plugs (but new) and no flamingos (maybe while on the vaca I will find one).

California Fabric Mecca

I was in San Francisco this weekend, less the kids, and I finally got the chance to visit the Britex Fabric Store near Union Square. My wife bought me a sewing machine for my 40th and now I'm a novice sewer. I've always wanted to check this store out, they got it all!!! Next time I might actually buy something.

Camera Shy: Late for Work

Yay! New Blogger finally let me make the crossover so I can play! This is me this morning, late for work. Computer bag? Check. Purse? Check. Commuter coffee mug? Check. Keys? Check. Late because you stayed up too late casting on a new pair of socks when you should have turned in for a good night's sleep? Check.

Camera Shy

Ok, I am a little slow with these, but this is my Camera Shy. Damned if I will ever find a Pink Flamingo here in the winter of Chicago.

I play basketball--and have played for several years--with this group of folks. The group has been together for around 15 yrs and we meet every saturday -- summer in the park, winter at the Y. Its great, not too competitive, usually a good mix of girls/guys.

Camera Shy in San Francisco

This is Crissy Field along the San Francisco Bay. Its just a couple blocks from our apartment so my husband & I like to go for walks here. He held the camera for me but used the timer to take the picture.

Twofer

Bezzie catching up here! (Even though for some reason I didn't sign up for this blog under than name...but whatever).

We went to the zoo today and I had a chance to do both Camera Shy and Flamingos!

First up camera shy. I cheated and had my husband take the picture:



That's a road that I think the San Antonio River flows over back behind the zoo. Don't be fooled, it's only six inches there in the middle. But if I had fallen off to the other side, well yeah that's pretty deep.

And I also give you not one but TWO types of flamingos!

First "normal" flamingos:



And then "lesser flamingos," they're a bit smaller and a different shade of pink but still pretty cool:



It's good to be a flamingo in Texas. Yesterday was 75 degrees and sunny. Today only about 60, but still sunny!

Two for the price of one!

I managed to extract my butt from the chesterfield today and go cross country skiing. I took my camera with me.
My friendly neighborhood stop sign at 11 AM: 2 hours later:



We get all kind of wacky cloud/fog action around here because of the "valley effect".

I decided I'd try skiing away from the camera. There's not alot of flat surfaces on the trail that I can sit my camera on, so I headed over to the biathlon range.



I wasn't sure how quickly I could ski away from the camera, so the first time I really hauled @ss. My exhuberance combined with the haze made for a not so great shot. So I decided to adjust the camera settings and change the direction I was skiing in:

Un, yeah, quite the change in direction - DOWN! I caught an edge when I hit the deep snow at the side of the groomed trail. Thank goodness I was doing this at noon on a weekday...

The haze cleared, and the third time was the charm.

Bad Horror Film

Here I am doing my best impression of a heroine in a bad horror film....running away from the monster in the bathtub!

Please note that the protagonist in the shot is wearing appropriate "I was caught unawares" clothing. However, also note that in true hollywood non-reality, the bathrobe is a matching purple to the pj's!

Quick, run!

Two camera shy flamingos! Residents of Artis, the city zoo.

Running away.....

From cooking dinner!! LOL! Well, after conquering the timer (yeah I did look in the book!) and a few...um...can we say, I sure didn't run in front of the camera, no wonder I wasn't in there LOL!

This is fun and can't wait to see what we do next! If we do the flamingos...I saw one today, just can't remember where!

On the Move

I set the camera on my desk and aimed at the one thing I could fully focus on....the stairs. I pushed the button and waited.......the beeps counted down and I took off.

From my desk to the stairs, avoiding the cat and trying not to slip on the wood floor, off I went.

Four tries later, I actually had a photo that did not have my head cut off. That might have looked bad.

in the back yard

Me and my kids, after school.

can't catch me

With all the ice on the sidewalks, I decided, for safety's sake, it would be best to take a run inside. My friend Steve took this shot for me in a hallway in the office. This was the second try. I got further away on the first attempt, but it was because the flash took forever, so I felt like I was cheating on the 2 second rule.

snow bunny

here I am hopping through the freshly fallen snow! I love my back yard, in any weather! I better get some sledding in now, while the kids are taking their naps!! I don't like to share the sled...

The Chase

I have been blogging for a year now and I don't think in that whole time I have posted a picture of myself. So the Camera Shy theme was perfect for me.

The setup was my drive way today. It is very cold and was just beginning to rain. But Sherman, my dog, is always ready to play along. He was the inspiration for the title of the post. He thought the whole thing was a great game!

Here's an idea

Stacie's trolling for subjects we can photograph. I don't know if this will work well or not, but here's my thought. All of us have cameras, right? Right. (No, I'm not going to suggest taking a photo of your camera. Hold on.) And those cameras have photographers to push their buttons, right? Right. Also, we've probably all experienced moments of feeling camera shy, right? Well, I have. So, the point is, I'm trying to turn us into the ordinary things that are in our own neighborhoods. But I'm not suggesting regular self-portraits. I think it would be fun to borrow this guy's idea and run from our cameras while they're taking pictures of us. It may mean that some of us have to dust off our owner's manuals and read up on how to set those timers on our cameras, but hey, it's always good to keep learning. Brain stays supple and all that. Stacie, is this a good enough fit, or too much of a stretch?

So the rules are easy. Set your camera's timer for 2 seconds then run as far away from your camera as you can. I think a good name for this subject is CAMERA SHY.