Category Archives: Photography

Yet Another Test

June 27, 2008Photography, World Youth DayCadyLy

Okay, so I got how to upload pictures to my Flickr account; and I got how to post blog entries; but I couldn’t find a way from the Flickr site to post pictures to the blog as I do from my desktop. I would imagine that I would mostly be keeping things separate, but I might occasionally want to post about a photo.

So, here I go again, trying more things to beat my electronics into doing my will. 🙂

Good thing I am a Nuke, trained for this frustration…. 🙂

Update: If you get a message where the photo should be saying that the picture is unavailable, don’t worry — I got that too. The problem being is that I just couldn’t let things be and I had to monkey with them. Since the photo that I uploaded was a vertical image, I went onto the Flickr site and rotated it, and wanted to see if it would auto-update the photo on the blog…. Maybe there’s just a time lag… We shall see…. Of course, this all just applies to the photos edited from a computer to rotate them. I haven’t yet figured out how to rotate things as I post them — to either site. So, you may have to tilt your head/monitor…. Sorry! 🙂

WHAT IS IT??!?!?!?!

June 25, 2008Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, PhotographyCadyLy

WHAT IS IT??!?!?!?!Originally uploaded by CadyLy

This may say a lot about me. I am getting ready to go to bed, since I have to get up freakishly early in the morning (even for me, who normally sets the alarm for 4:30 am). I step out of my bedroom for a minute and happen to catch site of this…is it a bug? On the door.

Eyes get huge. What is the first thing I do?

Grab my camera.

That’s right, folks. I need a picture of this sucker. Because if it manages to kill me, at least someone will be able to download my picture and see the culprit.

I come back with the camera — and he’s gone! Aaaahhh! Monster bug on the loose!! Oh no! Oh no! Panic sets in.

Then, I see him running across the floor. Aaaaahhhhh! He’s faster than a cockroach — and *those* suckers can move! Finally, he ends up on the wall in the living room. I swap the camera for the Lysol/Windex. He’s too fast to risk having him on the loose where he might decide to eat me.

I squirt him repeatedly. He seems to not move for a little while. Oh, good. This stuff can kill cockroaches, but sometimes it takes a bit of time. THEN…. HE STARTS MOVING! Like a bad horror flick, the monster has come back to life — and just when you were beginning to catch your breath.

He runs again and for a moment I have lost him. Oh, no. Oh, no. In my head, I am screaming. I pull out the couch, trying to see if he escaped under there.

Finally, I catch up to him on the wall again. Thank You, Jesus, for Niki, who kept an eye on the Evil Bug and let me know where he was lurking. I am so glad that I bought new shoes recently, because I could grab my *old* shoe and crack the sucker with it. I may have dented the wall…but I wanted to make certain that the little beastie was dead.

So, now the bug guts are in the trash. I have been sanitized. And, the couch is back where it should be. And it’s time again for me to try and go to bed. I’m almost over my panic. Not quite, so don’t sneak up on me just yet.

Have a good night! And please pray for me that he doesn’t have any relatives!

What was that thing???

Gardening Issues

June 21, 2008Humor of the Day, Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, PhotographyCadyLy

Does anyone have any idea how to deal with this???

Because I’m a little at a loss. Except for sitting down and weeding them all out, which would take days….

Has more appeared, just in the past minute?!? Aaaah! 🙂

Roasted Shallots

May 22, 2008Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, Photography, Tales of My Amazing PriestsCadyLy

Originally uploaded by CadyLy
I’ve never made shallots before, and I’m about to use them in 2 recipes for dinner on Saturday. I thought I would try roasting one first, just to see what it tasted like. Mostly, like onions.

This is also going to be my first time having one of my priests over for dinner. We will be a party of five. I hope I learn how to cook between now and then! 🙂

Statue of What?

April 26, 2008PhotographyCadyLy

DSCN9136

Originally uploaded by CadyLy

I’m not quite sure if this is the Statue of Liberty, the Statue of Peace, or the Statue of Duuuude…. 🙂

Teaser Photo

April 22, 2008Easter, Of Trials Opportunities and Gifts, Photography, SacramentsCadyLy

Here’s just one of the many, many pictures that I took over the weekend. I do not have a great zoom, and was sitting quite high in the stands, so the picture is a little fuzzy (digital zoom will do that).

It was amazing! It was great! I need a thesaurus for my superlative adjectives!

One day, when I am no longer tired, I may write more on this. For now, I have a mountain of things to get done in the office!
Pope Benedict XVI

Oooh! Pictures!

January 13, 2008PhotographyCadyLy

Okay, now that I have figured out how to upload pictures to my Stblogs — you all are in trouble! Hahaha! What’s the max filespace on this site??

Here’s a flower picture that I like:

Rate My Photo

January 13, 2008Of Vice and Virtue, PhotographyCadyLy

So, a while ago I was randomly at this photography site. I don’t know if I was there to see if I wanted to store some pictures online or what, but there was a thing where you could submit a photo to them, and I grabbed whatever was handy, which happened to be a picture of the intersection of Big Beaver and Livernois, taken around midnight when I was out walking. Then, I got notices that they wanted to publish my photo, and they send me releases and things like that, so sure! Haha. After that, they want me to buy things to “commemorate my achievement.” No, no. Now, by all means, if you like it, publish it — that’s kind of cool. And, maybe, eventually, if I have the money, I might buy the book it will be published in. But, I’m not going to buy things just to inflate my ego. It’s not even a very good picture!

But now, they have sent me this thing where I can have people rank my photograph, and they sent me a link to it. So, since I haven’t quite determined what I’m going to do about webhosting so that I can share my pix with all of you (because a) I love to take pictures and b) I love to share), I’ll pass along the link, so that you can at least take a look at one of my pix. Enjoy!

http://www.picture.com/voteforme/photovote1.asp?PID=1888250

Spring Lake Vacation

May 26, 2002Photography, TravelCadyLy

Seth and I took a vacation to the west side of the state to visit our friend, Ryan.

We visited with his pets, Felix:

and Naja:

The house was beautiful:

We even got to see tiny little frogs down by the dock! 🙂

We made a quick trip up to the Frederick Meijer Gardens, where they had some orchids on display:

I’m pretty sure we took a bunch more pictures with our film cameras; I just haven’t scanned them in yet. 🙂