Out on a Limb

The new camera... take 2

2011-02-09T00:50:00Z

I have spent the last hour trying to figure out how to load a photo. Finally I managed to get the "add Media" choice to show on this idiot blog editor. So here is the new camera.
I cannot duplicate the way I got to the 'add media' spot.

The New Camera

2011-02-09T00:20:00Z

I have no idea how I added photos to this blog, before. What a waste of time to even look at this.

I updated my Photography page on my web site to include the purchase of my Canon EOS Rebel 500d or T1i.

More of this Blog

2008-10-17T21:51:00Z

         I have found that I can put a photo into two or more categories by putting a comma after each category
         name; or, by going to edit an entry and adding it to the other category in the side bar. This entry, I am
         hope I have created the Sky and Sea category just by entering the name in the 'category' place at the top
         of the new entry and just below the name of the entry.   This will be the last for today!

Managing this blog

2008-10-17T20:56:00Z

                                      This is a photo taken on our Russian River Cruise in May 2008.
                I have this printed and will hang it when the renovations of my kitchen are finished.

     I seem to be getting along a little better with this blog after spending a few hours looking things over.
     I cannot find the "center" tool on the editor. I suppose I could do it with html. No big deal though
     I have managed to fix the size of the photos previously added to each entry. 700 pixels wide seems ok.
     I go to my go.daddy login and find where to login, then click the left side 'quick blog'. This takes me to
       the blog account where I click on the blog name wwwmyblog.mmmee.com. This should take me to the
       spot to edit entries or create a new entry, add categories or do other maintenance. There is a little
       'view blog' in the top right corner to see any changes made as they are saved. Must save any edits.
       To add photos to the entry, I click on the icon to add photos, then upload the photo to the blog gallery,
       and next highlight the photo in the gallery and click ok at the bottom. Go.daddy is quite slow in the
       upload, as is Blogger. Its good to have this figured out.
      I don't like the side bar or the banner and top part much at all. I might have to explore the templates.
      I find that Go.daddy has a feature where I can buy an on line storage folder. I might want to have one
        of these someday. Here is the public URL for it: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/email/vsdb_landing.asp

Not so quick Quick Blog

2008-10-17T17:27:00Z

I am having a go again at trying to do entries in This Blog.
It is free with my domain name with Go.daddy. I guess you
get what you pay for. This thing is very difficult to navigate.
Blogger is far easier. I have to first load photos to a gallery
before I can use them in an entry. Finding that gallery upload
place is a mysterious endeavor. Then the photos should not be
too large. I don't know what size fits, but my photos over 800 pixels
are too big. If ever I have too much time on my hands I shall go back
to this gallery and reload all the pictures in a smaller size. Then edit
all the entries. I should call this quick blog "Pain in the Butt"...
Go.daddy are you listening??
Also, I would like to sign in to my account dashboard and remain signed in.
Why is that too difficult?

Can-Am Model T tour - Sept. 14, 15, 16, 2007 - Mission, B.C.

2007-09-18T16:22:00Z

There's a mist

2007-05-13T23:59:00Z

There's a mist hanging over me
Because of this I fail to see
Very clearly

There's a mist clouding my thoughts
Because of this I cannot
Decide a lot

There's a mist in the air
Because of this its hard to care
Who would dare

There's a mist, a creeping menance
Because of this odd circumstance
The world lacks maintance

There's a mist, dense and thick
Because of this the planet is sick
We need a cure -- quick

I created this poem on May 13, 2007

Tiny Bubbles

2007-04-14T19:49:00Z

After that blast of color I think I should get back to something more calm. This is a photo from my water garden a few days ago. The white is the fallen plum tree blossoms. The bubbles were created by the water fall. I cannot seem to get it set to make bubbles again. I am glad I caught this act.

My Garden

2007-04-12T03:18:00Z

My Garden

Willows sway lazily in the breeze
Butterflies waft by with ease
Fragrance and colour to please
In the tranquil garden of Maggie's

Friends from near and far
Popin to see how you are
and enjoy a drink from the bar
spiced with gossip and a hardy har har

To exchange a picture and a song
To make you welcome and feel you belong
as friends laugh and get along
under the canopy of the tree fern frond

There are good jokes to share
Things to try on a dare
As we drop all woes and cares
within a quiet cocoon of gossamers

Fairies frolic in friendly fantasies
in adamant abundant amnesty
from all boring bothersome bombastities
going gracefully, gleefully aghasterly
in the magical, mystical moods of my garden
where all fears and frights are forgotten with pardon.

--- mmmee

The Moon Cries

2007-04-11T04:54:00Z

The Moon Cries

               The moon cries
               To see the skies
                     Lack of visibility

     The moon cries
     With the demise
           Of species reproductive ability

     The moon cries
     To hear the rise
           Of the winds’ velocity

     The moon cries
     To taste the rise
           Of the oceans salinity

     The moon cries
     As mankind denies
           All responsibility

-- mmmee

Whisper Soft

2007-04-11T03:31:00Z

Whisper soft...

my love with a moon to move my secular soul...a moon to still the screaming banshees,waging battle for control of a gypsy,once free,now stumbling headlong toward the day where branches will no longer stain the light between thee and me. A longing,a curse...for memory is a hunger. And all that I hold dear has been swept away...leaving only a crumb for my ravenous gypsy soul. One Soul.

aka Matthew T. Joyce

As Darkness Falls

2007-04-11T00:40:00Z

As darkness falls
Mother nature calls
With urgency, its an emergency,
There is no more light, forever night.
The batteries are dead, dead, dead.

As darkness fell
Mother nature is not well
And she cried to be so denied
The capability of rejuvenability
The planet shudders with dread, dread, dread.

As darkness creeps
Mother nature weeps
All of her forces, like wild horses
Erupt in a combustion of terrible destruction
All restraints have fled, fled, fled.

As darkness has fallen
Mother Nature is not callin
Her voice was destroyed, earth is a void
Broken into bits and pieces as the pressure releases
The earth dies in her firey, red, bed.

--- mmmee

Trying out the new blog

2007-04-10T05:25:00Z

This is the first upload to this new blog on my domain.
I will have to find out about that advertising across the top and how I get rid of it. Probably have to pay for that priviledge, as Godaddy says this quick blog is free with my domain.