January 28 - Brrrrrrr!

We had a blizzard yesterday and are now in the midst of a week-long deep freeze. This shows the temperature outside my back door at 5:00 this afternoon...-27.8C...a little bit nippy! The official temperature in Edmonton today was -30C with a wind chill factor making it -48C. Arizona sure is sounding good these days!!! There were huge snow drifts on the roads this morning. I don't think I would have made it out to the main road without the 4-wheel drive.

January 27, 2008 - The Man

There were no grandchildren around for me to take pictures of today so this handsome fellow agreed to let me use him as my subject. This is Lloyd, the center of my life for almost 40 years now. I want to play around with the color picture and take all the color out except for the blue of his eyes. I was practicing with my new 50 mm lens, and with the b&w feature of my camera.

January 26, 2008

Amy pointed out to me that I have a couple pictures of Kenzie on this blog but none of Sydney and Aidan....so here they are. Sydney is two and a half and has a lovely bump/bruise above her left eye. Aidan is 6 months old and looks a lot like his big sister Kenzie. Eventually this blog will contain pictures of all of my grandchildren, interspersed with various and sundry other pictures. I got a 50 ml lens for my Canon Rebel today so will have fun playing with it.

January 25, 2008

This is a layout I've been working on today in response to a challenge on one of the scrapbook websites to do a layout with the focus on journalling. I've wanted to do one anyway about my namesake, Dad's mother, Millicent McCarthy. I like the way this turned out. It was nice to put my feelings about my name and memories of a wonderful woman into a layout. It's not so bad being named Millicent when I love the only other person with that name that I've ever met.

January 24, 2008

Baby Smiles. I was babysitting Eloise tonight for Sara. We had a good time together - for the first time she was smiling, talking and laughing for me. It's hard to capture it on camera though because when it's the big black box looking at her instead of a friendly face, her smile quickly fades. Eloise is my little namesake - her middle name is Patricia.

January 23, 2008

Kenzie loves my green microfibre throw - it's so smooth and soft on her skin. She loves to wrap up in it and get cozy. She has beautiful blue eyes, ringed with darker blue.

January 22, 2008

DD Sara did a photo shoot of Layla and Charlie the other day. They've been best friends since birth - at 4 and 3 years old, Charlie is 8 months older than Layla. And now Layla is moving away and the cousins are going to miss one another a lot. They've been the subject of Sara's seasonal photo shoots for three years.