Tuesday

I was on turtle duty today. The first time in a long time. When I got there, there were no turtles on the beach and the other volunteer said there hadn't been any all day.

There were, however, 5 of them playing in the surf, teasing all the tourists. They were coming in very close, frolicking, then turning back out to sea and swimming a little bit away. Then they happily repeated the scenario.

About 45 minutes after I got there, this one, lone turtle made his/her way up the beach. It's a juvenile, so the gender isn't determined.

As the sun got lower in the sky, I wanted to include the turtle with the stream of sun on the water. Problem: too contrasty, so I started playing around with exposure times. I wound up with this next image. Just a little high key, but I really, really liked it.

Posted at 8:30 on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Global Warming???

One of the first things I heard on the car radio this morning is that the northeast was being plummeted with, suprise!!!, snow. Just now Kristine told me that there was a Global Warming Protest March in Washington, DC--it got snowed on!!!

How awesome is that? God's sense of humor ROCKS!!

Okay, on to Cholo's. Last Friday, Jackie and I obtained permission to go there (Cholo's) this morning before it opened to the public to get some photographs of the interior. As we were happily photograping away, the manager came over and gave us a different story. Luckily we had been there for a while and were just about done.

Cholo's is the North Shore's Best Mexican Restaurant, according to the advertising--and it seems according to the crowds that you find there at almost any time of the day or evening, 7/days/week. It has quite the personality and seems to be the hot spot in Haleiwa. Think about the commercials for Olive Garden, and then mentally insert a Mexican theme, and there you have it!

Then we stopped at several beaches to see what was going on. Sorry about the snow in the northeast, but this is what we were dealing with on the North Shore.

Is there anyone in blogdom who can help me with that stupid underline thing that happens randomly???
Posted at 4:30 pm on Monday, Mar 2, 2009

Does anyone understand blogspot????

This underlining is happening of its own free will. I can't get rid of it. I suppose I could start another post and it would go away, but I'm too tired and it's too late...

So anyway, after taking my lens to the Ritz store, and finding out that the lens will have to make a trip to the mainland and visit the lens hospital (and probably won't get back to me for 3-4 weeks), I consoled myself by going to the beach and doing some people watching. These were taken with my trusty point and shoot.

Then I went back to the mall (go figure, no underlining here) to visit a bookstore and decided to walk around the mall a little. I came across a cute little gallery where they were selling framed photographs, paintings and sculptures. There was a little loft room and because no one was looking, I grabbed a shot of this photo for sale. Okay, it was nice, okay, it was probably 20x24 not counting the frame (I couldn't get far enough away to include the entire image and the frame without falling down the stairs and attracting attention I didn't really want to attract), but, for heaven's sake, the price tag said, $900. OMGosh!
Our MVP group must be doing something wrong! Or could it be where we live, hmmmm?

Posted at 8 pm on Wed., Feb. 11, 2009