This photo amazes me. As I plan to add two more bookshelves to my home this weekend I wonder if I am on the path to this. My family would say yes. I don't even think I would disagree although I hope I am not. Somewhat. I love books....
Sam is now on Flickr! I hope to see many more great shots from him - he seems to have a good eye for it - I like this one a lot. Follow the photo to see more of his shots on Mount Royal's campus.
I am presenting next weekend at the ATESL (Alberta Teachers of English as a Second Language) conference in Edmonton. I've always wanted to try the Pecha-Kucha (pronounced peh-CHAKH-cha) format for a presentation - 20 slides of 20 seconds each - for a presentation of 6 minutes and 40 seconds per presenter. You may have heard of similar formats like "Ignite". But the conference planners gave me an hour - so I'm just going to pretend to be 8 presenters and talk about 8 different topics - all theme related but still try out this format. I like the idea that I could then take apart the presentation and share just a piece of it in a staff meeting or participate in a real Pecha-Kucha presentation (possibly at the upcoming Tech Testdrive in the spring). But isn't the photo perfect!! We'll see how it turns out!
It isn't even Hallowe'en yet - I feel the same way as these trees!
in reference to: Catalog Living (view on Google Sidewiki)
With all the family history work I've been doing, I've been avoiding the Swedish line. Maybe eating one of these delicious looking buns for Shrove Tuesday would give me some courage to try....
From the Flickr site: "Around the world today people are marking Shrove Tuesday in various ways – in Sweden, the day (“fettisdagen” – Fat Tuesday) is marked by eating a traditional pastry, called semla or fastlagsbulle, a sweet bun stuffed with almond paste and whipped cream."
A Hedgehog goes for a walk... He meets his mom, and an octopus and finally finds a slide "Whee". So fun!
Second morning back to work and the sun didn't make an appearance all day. The snow was beautiful though and it wasn't too cold (-14 degrees) as there was no wind.
Celebrating Ingrid's birthday - Jill made the cake - very yummy and we enjoyed the sparkling pear drink from Ikea. A fun night with good friends.
End of the day and we thought the wiring was all done but when my lights didn't work, we realized we had used a plug that broke the circuit in the spare room. So one more job by lamplight.
Not an "artistic" photo but one to represent a small portion of how I spent my day, reading The Fire by Katherine Neville. I finished this book and plan to keep track of my reading list for 2010. Not a recommendation however, but this is a sequel to "The Eight" which is a great story if you enjoyed the puzzle/code aspect of the DaVinci Code and want a strong female heroine to read about.
