Friday, May 02, 2008

Spring is Here!


Want to show you a few pictures of the flowers in our yard. Although I am having a tough time getting the camera to focus on what I want it to focus on. It seems the ground in the background is crystal clear in focus, but the flower is blurry, even tho I had the focusing box on the flower. But one thing I did find tho is that you can't use both the macro lens and the zoom lens! That was a surprise to me, but it did explain why I was having such a terrible time getting close ups. I also photoshopped some flower pictures, but do you think I can find them - NO! And the other day I went through and got all the pictures of my card, so don't know what happened to the zipped up pictures - oh well, if I find them I will add them on later.



I just love this time of year where all of a sudden you are made aware of all the forsythia around you, and then of the cherry trees in your neighborhood, and then all the tulips and daffodils in the different yards. And I love the magnolia trees, just hope they don't get hit by any late freeze here in Michigan. And pretty soon the crab apple trees will be blooming too, they are just about ready to pop at work in the courtyard at school. I have to work on the focusing tho!





Ahh - found the edited picture, I had saved it to Flickr, so getting it over here was a little different.





















And I have also been trying to figure out how to put a border around my pics - I think I might have mentioned this before - but boy this stuff is complicated! How does everyone learn how to do this stuff? Oops, better insert some pictures before I forget...

And then had to throw in these two pictures too. This is Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal, who I think have come back to our house year after year. The picture on the left they see me through the living room window, and the one on the right they don't care anymore! And the bar going across between Mr. and Mrs. is my cafe rod going across the picture window. So it looks almost like two separate pictures, but they really aren't. Oh well, too much info! But we enjoy looking at them!

Borders anyone? And remember you can click on any picture to get a better view.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Gospel Choir Concert the Next Weekend!



The next weekend we came back to Grand Rapids for a Gospel Choir Concert that our daughter sang in. It was wonderful, an hour of singing to the Lord (and us too!). It was great - I took several videos, but don't know if that is quite right to include on these blog things. But I will include a couple pictures of Emily as part of the choir group, and then family, if you would like to hear a few clips, just let me know and I can send them on to you. Emily is the short one in the back row. And unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the whole choir, this bottom picture is only half......oh well, next time.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Dance Guild - Part Two

Lauren is the one twirling in the front, kind of leftish side
The Grand Finale
Emily, Kristen & Erin from St. Joe!

Clay & I, and Fran & Judy


All the friends!

I took lots more pictures, but held it down to these few here. Another nice thing was that several of the girlfriend's parents were there, so we got to meet them too. (I won't post those pictures, I promise!) But what a great group of girls! And a friend of St. Joe came up too with her girls to come and watch Emily too - that was much appreciated! So we had a great time, and I am sure all the girls slept very well! Love you all!

I sure hope SOMEONE/ANYONE leaves me a comment tho!!!

And does anyone know how to put the line frames around the pictures in blogspot? I have tried every button I could, and haven't found the right one yet!

Hugs, Diane

Dance Guild

That is Kelsey there!

And here is Beth in the middle in black!

And there is our Emily in the middle in the back!

And there is Lauren on the left!

And Lauren on the right! (Lauren choreographed this one to Amazing Grace, it was very good!)

Well here you go.... These are of the Dance Guild program that my daughter and her friends were in recently up at Calvin. Dh and I went up to Grand Rapids, met with my sister and a friend, went out to eat, and then went to see the program, it was really good! I thought there would be lots of ballet and maybe square dancing (kind of kidding here) but no, it was pretty wild (AND LOUD!!!) lots of hip hop and that kind of stuff. I didn't get too many great shots, those darn digital camera's you shoot the picture, then it is delayed so long the great shot is gone. So Emily is there in that one, she is in the back row with a black top and pink jacket - isn't she cute?
And her roommate Lauren, was in like five of the dances, and she choreographed a bunch too, we really enjoyed the whole thing!

Friday, April 04, 2008

Buttons


Well I am adding a picture of my old buttons to all the other blogs that are showing theirs. These are from a neat blue bottle, that I am pretty sure belonged to my Grandmother Dirkse, who was no longer alive when I was born. My mom had saved them, and after checking out the other button blogs, I found out they were 19th century glass calicos and stencils, how cool is that? I wonder if these were saved from clothes, or new or what their story is. It is fun to imagine. I just always loved the looks of them, and knew they were old.