New Toy

Hello dear ones,

Another rainy, windy day here in the city.  Unfortunately for me, the rain inhibited me from playing too much with my new toy.

      I'm now the proud owner of a new Cannon 600D 18-55mm courtesy of my dear parents.  Thank you!  I have yet to find a good name for him, so in the mean time I've just been calling him Huey.  The switch do DSLR has been greatly anticipated despite my deep attachment to my prior Canon PowerShot A610, my first camera and also courtesy of the dear folks.  I'm so used to needing full light to take an adequate picture that it's been odd being able to shoot in almost any light.  I know so little about taking actual photographs, so this will be a learning process.

 For some reason I liked this one; accidentally taken through the curtain.

      Even though it was raining this morning, I figured I would go out just in case the rain stopped for a bit.  Since I haven't spent much time around the Eiffel Tower, at least not during the day, I figured I would head over there and be all touristy. 

      Unfortunately for me, it didn't really stop raining but for more than about five minutes when these were taken.  I tried the whole, hold the purse, camera, and umbrella while trying to take a photo thing, but it was a bit tricky and I soon retreated under a cafe umbrella for a cafe and croissant.

      The rest of the afternoon was spent in an exceptionally long meeting in which I learned no new information, but I got to see my friends and goof off when the directors were out of the room.  By the time I got home it was time for dinner and it was dark...and raining.  I might take time to insert here that I have officially gotten over my phobia of eating fish with everything still intact minus a few guts.  Eyeballs?  No problem.  Deboning a whole fried bass? Piece of cake.  I've not recovered from the lamb spinal cord incident, but fish I can handle.

What I refer to as "my intersection". 

Banlieu to the left of the big road and Paris to the right

      I got Huey just in time for our trip to Normandy this weekend.  Two days of megabus rides, the beach, war museums, and a cider tasting of sorts.  Good times.  I will be sure to report back when I return with photos of our travels.  Much love

-Kate Alice

p.s. The nice zoom on this thing should take my spying on the neighboring apartments to a whole new level.  I'm psyched.