This is at the national gallery downtown. We went for a short jaunt in there with the kids. My patience was waning pretty quickly as the kids yelled, ran, touched things. ACK. Too bad really 'cause (almost) everyone else wanted to stay longer.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Christmas 2006
So, this is obviously from Christmas. This is only half of the presents. We had a full (and fun) house!
This gingerbread house was a group effort. Yummy too.
Although it does not look very big, this snowman was about 9 feet tall. The middle ball was increadibly heavy...like back-breakingly so.
Family and friend built two big snow forts and in fact had a great snowball fight. However, we were almost completely bagged by the time it came to fightin'.
A nice beginning to a beautiful holiday morning...
Snow buntings all winter long
These guys have been coming to the feeders for several weeks now. They are snow buntings and have very nice colouring. We had never seen them before, but they are now our favourites... It is interesting, they come by for about 5-10 seconds, then they will all fly off, usually vertically up to the eaves. Then they will return 2-3 minutes later, only to fly off again. They feed on the scattered seed on the ground and only when there are lots of them will they perch on the feeder, although they don't seem to adept at doing that. They can hover for a few seconds though (while waiting 'in line' at the feeder), which is interesting.I'll try to post some better pictures another time!
E's birthday party
So, E had a reptile zoo come and do a demo at the house for his birthday party. There were a hoard of boys and it was crazy, but we all had fun. Apparently, this is the biggest reptile in the province...a huge snapping turtle...this thing was MASSIVE as you can see.
Jay, you would like this scorpion...huge...and scary.
This is Elvis, he is a king snake...get it? He was very smooth too.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Disney World
Strollers in Disney World...just outside the PhilharMagic, which is an interactive 3D, 180 degree theatre...very fun to watch. Windy!
This one needs no explanation.
During the day...
And at night!
Sea World
Underwater tunnel...very cool.
I've always loved these lion fish.
This is a seahorse that looks like a floating weed...in fact that's exactly what I thought it was when I first looked into the tank!
Kennedy Space Science Center (not 'Centre!)
This is the building within which they attach the shuttle - vertically!!! - to the booster rockets and the main fuel tank. The crane that does it is apparently accurate to within a few 1000ths of an inch!
Here is the 'crawler'. It weights something like 18,000 imperial tons when it is loaded. It crawls on a bed of fresh pea-gravel over to the launch pad (below) at a very fuel efficient 45 feet/gallon...yoikes! After it has crawled over the gravel, the gravel is pulverized into a fine dust.
Space Shuttle Discovery launch
We were lucky enough to be around when the shuttle was launching, although we were about 40 miles away. It was still incredibly bright and larger than the size of a big sunset. We did not hear anything, but it was still quite an amazing thing to witness in person.
It was neat to see how the colour of the fire (?) changed as the fuel changed (according to my bro).
This was about the last visible point before it was too difficult to see. It seemed to fly away horizontally rather than straight up. I'm not sure why...
Blue Spring State Park - Orange City, FL
Manatees are also called 'sea cows'. They are basically slow moving balloons with sealion-like faces. These are one of a few protected species left in the world. They come up about once every 5 minutes for a breath of air and spend the rest of the time eating plants and sleeping...sounds healthy and relaxing.
The day that we visited the park, there were over 130 manatees counted.
What is the opposite of phallic? This is the source of the spring...it is probably about 10 feet wide and 70 feet long.
more Florida
H took this photo of the shells...I love it and took a few more on my film camera. My dad says she has a great eye for photo composition and I agree!
This is so cute with the little footprints...there were a ton more all over.
I totally love the Scion xB. So boxy...so fuel efficient.
FLORIDA!!!!
Marine Rescue - there were many HUGE turtles. Apparently some of them can reach 8 feet long and weigh 1300 pounds, although most here were only about 2.5 feet long!
Stick insect that was just hangin' outside the marine rescue place.
We had the opportunity to drive on the beach and go for a walk. It was birsk (about 8 degree C), but that was a whole lot better than home...
We saw this jellyfish on the beach too...one of the tentacles was about 5 feet long and bright blue!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Just some old pics that I love
A Cerambycid (Longhorned beetle) from a vacation we took with my parents and my brother a while back...
A teeeeeeeny little bee. It was really only about 6 or 7 mm long.
Yes. I love coffee. Especially while on vacation as we were here.
Just a pic from our old garden on a nice sunny day.
Monday, November 20, 2006
The Museum!
A while back, Brian and I took the kids out to the Museum...they had been working on a lot of changes and WOW was it nice. The kids had a great time.
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