Hawaiian-Born Camera

So, in spite of the fact that it had snowed to the tune of 8 or 10 inches the night before AND the windchill temp was well into the negative sphere, I decided yesterday that, since I had to go out to the bank anyway, I should take my camera, since there was bound to be some beautiful snow-covered scenery to capture.

I headed down the road to my favorite beach park. Just a couple of blocks away, it’s always interesting — wooded and rolling hills, white sandy beach and roaring waves in the winter. Lake Michigan isn’t exactly the Pacific Ocean, I know, but it’s as close as I can get to here. Anyway, I made sure I had fresh batteries in the camera, got out of the car, and hiked a little way in to a clearing I love and where I often see lots of woodland critters. I stood there for a minute, looking for just the right shot of the sun coming through the trees and sparkling on the snow, when a HUGE deer stepped into the clearing. WOW….how exciting, right? I turned my camera on……and it promptly turned itself off. Tried again…..same thing. Of course, by now, the deer has spooked and taken off.

I went back to the car, thinking maybe the batteries just weren’t good ones. I turned on the heater to warm up a minute before going back, changed the batteries again, and took a couple of shots out the window just to assure myself it was working alright. Hiked back out to the clearing, found a shot I wanted, turned the camera on…..and it turned itself off again! After fiddling around with it for 20 minutes or so (and using language I’d never allow my children to hear from me!), I headed back to the car, thinking that NOW I’d be without a camera for a few days while the shop checked it out, since it obviously wasn’t working right.

As I was driving out of the park, I decided to turn it on one more time so I could clearly explain to the repair guy what it was doing. VOILA! It’s just fine!

Apparently, like me, my camera is Hawaiian at heart and just REFUSES to deal with this frozen wasteland we now live in. Anyway, I ended spending a half hour or so just driving around the park and taking pictures from INSIDE the car. I did get some great pics and will be scrapping some of them later today. Hopefully, I’ll get them up on the blog tomorrow.

In the meantime, I DID get a couple of LOs done yesterday. The first one was my attempt to warm myself up after I returned from my adventure. It’s my dh, another friend, and me at one of the lovely beaches in Moloka’i. That was our favority weekend getaway when we needed a little R & R. The primitive beauty and quiet were just so refreshing! I used the “Shore Is Fun” kit from DarleneH Designs. You can find the kit at SAS, here. It’s beautiful….full of bright colors and great stickers, perfect for all those beach photos you’ve been wanting to scrap.

The second is from my great-nephew’s 1st birthday party. He was just so cute, tearing into that cake! I used the “Blossom” and “Blossom Angel Add-On” kits from Stellarific Creations, which you can find here. It’s just such a beautiful kit, with softly textured papers of green and pink and lots of cool elements.

That’s it for today. I’ve got lots of scrapping to finish up and am still working on “the quilt.”

Thanks for stopping by.