While working my way through one of the hundreds of new emails in my inbox today, I noticed this at the bottom of a long note.
It made me pause.
Then it made me smile.
A morsel of wisdom from my inbox.
Tag: postaweek
Good morning.
I have been coming to Raleigh on business for many years. I’m staying in the same hotel that I usually do, right around the corner from the office. In all that time this hotel property has changed ownership at least 3 times. This time it’s a newly refurbished Hilton Garden Inn. It has that “new hotel” smell, even though it’s the same old building. They are doing their best to offer perks to make the stay more pleasant… a brand new hairdryer to replace the one that died on me yesterday…warm cookies in the lobby…a little store downstairs where you can buy drinks and snacks… a lovely breakfast buffet….and a great view of this morning’s sunrise from my room. 🙂
Bad hair day.
Today is off to a great start. Got up early to do email. Made one of those micro-pots of coffee in the hotel room. Quick shower. I’m rushing to get to my meeting on time, so I’d have to blow dry my hair. Hotel room hair dryers are typically wimpy. But it doesn’t seem worth it to stuff my big, bazillion watt ceramic, ionic, bionic hair dryer into my roll-a-board when I travel. So, I dug out the hotel dryer. And…I’m drying my hair… and halfway through, the hair dryer up and dies. Not just one of those overheating…wait 15 min interruptions. Just died.
Great. Now the left side of my hair is dry and straight. And the right side is wet… and when my hair dries naturally it has tons of curl/body in it. So… I’ll be sporting a new, split-personality, ying/yang look today… *sigh*
Is it Friday yet?
On the road again.
I’m off to Raleigh for the week. I flew through Chicago, and took this shot during my layover. You can see the Chicago skyline way off in the distance.
Spring ahead!
Don’t forget that daylight savings time begins today!
We’ve had a few days of slow, light rain, which is fantastic. We need lots more of it if the lake is going to recover. It’s at about 631.5′ – up less than a foot this weekend. About 50 more feet would be better.
I took a stroll around the yard after the dry line blew through this afternoon. The way-back has lots of this incredibly tiny pink flowers. I like this shot with a little bit of water droplet on the petal… and some bokeh effect.
SizzlyGIF.
I made crepes for breakfast. Always delicious! As I was getting the pan ready, I flicked water into it to see if it was at the right temperature. As the water danced and sizzled, I thought I would try to capture some of that later in a picture.
So after breakfast I set up my camera on a tripod next to the stovetop and gave it a try. The water was moving too fast for my little camera to get a good shot. I tried several different things. I have an ISO 3200 setting, so I tried that and was able to capture a few clearer images. I had quite a bit of water in the pan by this time, but it still looked cool.
A single image didn’t show much, so I looked on the web for a tool to create animated GIFs quickly and found Picasion.com. It is a web-based tool that will upload up to 10 images, convert them to a GIF, and then give you the URL to the resulting file. The animation above is the result.
So. There ya go. A creative way to waste a half hour or so. 🙂
Well, it wasn’t completely wasted. Now I know how to display animated gifs on my wordpress.com-hosted blog. The trick was to upload and insert it into my post without scaling it down, not display it at less than full size. So, before I created the gif, I reduced the size of the images to make each one smaller. Then I made the gif. Then uploaded and attached it. Voila.
Happy 2nd Blogoversary to me!
Two years ago today sheila365 came to be. As I did last year, today I’m posting a collage out of the photos from the last year’s posts. In year 2, I didn’t actually post every day, but most days. I’m still enjoying it. And I’m looking forward to capturing and posting more moments in the year ahead
If the years really must fly by so quickly, I’m very happy to be able to look back through these images to enjoy some of the moments that flew by — all over again.
Think pink.
Busy day. Marty dropped this rose off with some other post-BVI-trip items the other day for us. It’s a very pretty color of pink. I don’t think this shot does it justice.
But there you have it.
Bathtime.
Yes, another gratuitous Keeto pic. We are enjoying our little birdy after having been away for a week and a half.
Hot scones.
Hot blueberry scones for breakfast. Not from scratch….but Sticky Fingers Scone Mix. Easy and fast!
Keeto @ 6 months (or thereabouts)
I didn’t get a chance to sort through my photos from the trip yet, so, today you get another Keeto shot 🙂
Doray and Tom bird-sat for us while we were out of town. We got home too late to get him last night. So, as soon as my last meeting was over today, i buzzed over there to pick him up. He’s such a sweet bird. Thank you Uncle Tom & Aunt Doray !
We estimate that this week he is about 6 months old. His cere is most definitely blue now. He’s wrapping up his first molt. His flight feathers have grown in enough for him to get some lift. And his eyes are changing a bit… no longer solid black, but have a little ring gray around the outside.
(oh yeah, i almost forgot… Happy Mardi Gras!)
Back to reality.
I have been off-line for 10 glorious days – sailing through the British Virgin Islands. We just got home, and I have hundreds of photos to dig through. In the mean time, I’m posting a map showing each leg of our trip.
We headed to Tortola a week and a half ago: 12 sailors, 3 sailboats, 10 nights, 9 days and a ton of good times…. Our boat was a 51′ sloop called No Horizon. We shared it with Marty & Sue, and Tommy & Bobbie. Lori, Dave & Jake were on Sea Mist, and Wally, Kurt & Rod were on Pinta. The map above shows the route we took on No Horizon. Pinta and Sea Mist joined us for many of the legs, but everyone took their own route through the islands.
While I slept well on the boat every night, it’s going to be nice to sleep on my bed tonight and shower for as long as I want to! If I make it through my first day back at work tomorrow, I will pick several photos to post. More later…
…I go to come back!
A little surprise in the garden.
I walked out back this afternoon and noticed a flowering snapdragon (I think) in one of the flower beds. It’s a volunteer. And the winter has been so mild, it is starting to bloom.
Emergency Pedi.
I’m running out of time to get all the things I need to get done, done. Today I simply had to get a pedicure, so I booked an appointment at the newly opened Milk & Honey Salon in the Arboretum Market. In honor of Valentine’s Day next week I chose a color called “Fall in Love.”
My to-do list overfloweth, but now I’m primped, pampered and ready to go!
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