Baking, blogging and work share.

Work share has been a great program for companies during the past year. It helps to keep costs down and keep employees. But workshare can be a very good thing for the employees. An extra day off to do the things you want and not feel guilty about not being at work. Today I used my workshare day to bake. Not just bake something, but Christmas bake. I think it may have been a couple of years since I've done this and over the past years something I have not done on a regular basis.

For Jennifer:


For Manda:


For Shaun:


And thanks to Eddie, his wife and my sister we also have:



I have also booked a vacation day for tomorrow and I think I will bake again. And for those who know me, I only burnt myself once today.

Phoenix

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Originally uploaded by Rocketlily

Trying a new way to post to my blog from Flickr. If this should work, I can post a little more often.

Back to Macro

3 Takes of a Thistle

The Life of a Rose Bouquet

I have a flower in the garden that droops every night and wakes up with the morning light. I took a series of pictures over 1 1/2 hours to show the flower waking up.

Skaro Shrine and Roman Catholic Church Lamont, AB

A trip to Cache Lake

Vilna Greeting

Vilna County Fair

Vilna Mushrooms

Wedding Preview

The Wedding Photographer

This is a special post, just for Henk and Nicole. I bought this book today and spent some time leaning cool effects with Elements. I am now ready to do your wedding!!!

Birthday Party

With the fire bans lifted, it was time for the yearly Birthday Party.

The Birthday Boy

The guests

The Family

Cooking Dinner

The Cake complete with Sparkles

The Relaxing Fire

And the Tree that ended the evening.

After looking at these photos, I realized they were all taken with the 18-70 kit lens. I had decided to do the whole evening with this lens to see how they would turn out. There's was something not quite right about the photos with people and I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I realize it was the kit lens. Goodbye kit lens, Sigma 105, when will you be returned to me?