No time for play today

I have lots of work on my agenda for today. I've already checked my student's hours for last week. Now I need to email each of them (all 26) to give them their hours total for next week and advice, encouragement or prodding, which ever they need. I also have an exam to grade and an assignment to grade for my other course. In addition, today is an Early Release Wednesday. Parker and Jamie are coming here at noon instead of to Jamie's house this week. I am going on my guild's annual retreat this weekend so I need Parker to go to Jamie's house on Friday after school. I rescheduled my ALEKS class from today to Monday so that I would be home at noon today.

Above is another photo from Monday's full moon rise photo shoot. You can click on any image in this blog to see a larger version.

Full Moon last night

A few shots of the full moon rising over Mt. Blanca last night. I can't decide which I like better out of the last two shots. Which one do you like better? These photos were taken from the little wildlife viewing area off State Street, across from the golf course. The new rock memorial thing makes a great camera stand if you don't have a tripod.

Moon Rise over Mt. Blanca

A couple more shots from yesterday evenings walk along the levy with my camera. Both photos were taken from the same spot. The one below is, of course, using the zoom feature of my new camera. The zoom is amazing and the photo is using only 1/3 to 1/2 of the zoom capability. I learned that too much zoom without a tripod (or some other way to stabilize the camera) yields a slightly blurry image. Moon rise tonight is scheduled to be 4:45 pm. I hope to capture the moon over the mountains closer to sunset when the mountains turn pink and purple.

Eyes

I went for a walk this evening with my new camera. I found this tree with eyes watching me take pictures. Spooky!

P.S. My new camera rocks!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great group for our annual trick or treat party. And my camera arrived this afternoon!!! It takes great pictures just on Auto. It arrived after lunch and I was so busy preparing for the party and our haunted gingerbread house decorating that I haven't had much time to play with it on other settings.

My haunted gingerbread house.

Parker and his jack-o-lantern. We carved it on Tuesday afternoon. He has slept with it in his room every night since and it sat on the toilet to watch him take a bath!

New Toy!

Still no camera, but my new laptop arrived this morning. I had planned to spend the afternoon working on my Funky Santa but I think I will be playing on my new computer instead. I got a Dell Inspiron with one of the fancy designer tops. When the new camera arrives, I'll post a photo.

We are preparing for tomorrows Trick or Treat Party. Halloween is a big deal here. If the weather is bad we'll have about 150 trick or treaters. If the weather is good we have had as many as 350! I have a large black caldron for candy and I usually give out the whole thing. It should be cold tomorrow night but clear so we'll see how many we get.

Funky Santa

I began quilting my Funky Santa quilt this afternoon. I did some quilting in the ditch with invisible thread mainly as basting. Then I started quilting down some of the appliques.

This photo was taken some time ago. I still don't have my new camera yet. There isn't much to show anyway since most of the stitching I did today is not meant to be seen. I tried recharging my camera batteries today and putting them back in the camera to see if that helped. It didn't.