{"id":2655,"date":"2009-08-08T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2009-08-08T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T18:10:16","slug":"project-365-the-vacation-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/project-365-the-vacation-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 365: The Vacation Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>an you believe I almost forgot to put up my 365 post this week? My goodness, a little sunshine appears in an otherwise damp and dreary summer and suddenly the blog is the last thing on my mind. Sheesh!<\/p>\n

It was a busy week for photo opportunities, largely because we tried to cram an entire summer’s worth of activities into five warm and mostly sunny days. The week started on a high, with a fun birthday party and this perfect birthday cake handcrafted by my excellent friend Jojo:<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it great? I laughed out loud when I saw it, and it tasted even better than it looks. And yes, the photo was entirely edible and no, I have no idea how she did it!<\/p>\n

On my actual birthday, we went to the beach. I love this shot, called “birthday beach bliss”:<\/p>\n

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This is my brother. He’s being eaten by a tyrannosaurus. His shirt pretty much says it all. (As one of my flickr friends said, ‘That’s going to leave a scar.”)<\/p>\n

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On the Civic holiday Monday, we did something I’ve been meaning to do for years: we went to the Changing of the Guard<\/a> ceremony on Parliament Hill. I have a thing for marching bands.<\/p>\n

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I almost called this one RGB Icons — don’t you love the intense colours? That’s straight out of the camera. If only I’d had a hockey stick on me, I’d’ve been able to cover the Canadian iconic spectrum in this shot!<\/p>\n

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After the Changing of the Guard, we wandered over to Sparks Street to catch the last day of the Busker Festival. These guys, a local act called The Cow Guys<\/a>, put on an excellent show with a bull whip, juggling machetes and some really impressive balancing acts.<\/p>\n

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As much as I love my D40 (a *lot*) I do have to say, my little Fuji Finepix point-and-shoot takes some awesome super-macro shots. I can’t get closer than 15 cm or so with even my fastest dSLR lens (I’m coveting a macro lens, but can’t justify the hundreds of dollars right now) but the little Fuji can get within 1 cm. This is one of the roses from the birthday bouquet my mom gave to me (in a yellow happy face bowl — very sweet!)<\/p>\n

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(I had a lot of fun with photoshop this week! Almost all of the shots have some sort of post-processing play on them.)<\/p>\n

I called this one “Toddler Rage.” He’s officially one and a half today, but the terrible twos have already set in. My, but the boy has a temper on him. (Mind you, I’m holding a half-eaten fudgesicle just outside the frame of the camera, and just outside of his reach. Can’t say I blame him for giving me a piece of his mind. If there were a thought bubble over his head, I imagine it would say, “I am not your dog and pony show. Get that &%$#@ camera Out. Of. My. FACE! And give me back my popsicle!!”)<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, we tried to visit the Farmer’s Market at Lansdowne Park, but found out too late that it doesn’t start until 1 pm. Instead, we entertained ourselves with a wander through the Glebe to Sugar Mountain. The plethora of photo opportunities kept me content, and the boys (big and small) were thrilled with their sugary booty.<\/p>\n

I searched the Web for the story behind this weathervane outside the Aberdeen Pavilion, but couldn’t find any explanation. It’s a flying cow with bicycle wheels, perched on a fish. ???<\/p>\n

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Speaking of whimsical, I was entertained by this house near Lansdowne, tricked out to look like an old street car. I loved the complimentary colour blocks.<\/p>\n

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After much agonizing, I selected the cow weathervane as the picture of the day because of whimsical nature of it, but I think in the end I prefer this photograph of a painted bicycle tire outside a bike repair shop on Bank Street.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been waiting patiently throughout my 365 project and this endlessly soggy summer for a decent rainbow picture. I finally got my rainbow on Sunday:<\/p>\n

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And then yesterday, when I had no other good ideas, I made another one of my own!<\/p>\n

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Each week, though, I’m reminded that after all the flowers and rainbows and whimsical oddities, I still have a few favourite subjects that make it all worthwhile…<\/p>\n

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Can you believe I almost forgot to put up my 365 post this week? My goodness, a little sunshine appears in an otherwise damp and dreary summer and suddenly the blog is the last thing on my mind. Sheesh! It was a busy week for photo opportunities, largely because we tried to cram an entire … Continue reading “Project 365: The Vacation Edition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}