Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Summer's Coming!
It's 4 o'clock and the light goes on because it's nearly too dark to see myself type. Today's the Winter Solstice and the shortest day. The Earth is at the furthest point in its orbit around the Sun and we're also pointing the other way. From here on in, the Earth gets closer and we can peer over the horizon and see the Sun getting higher into the sky - before we know it, it will be Summer.
We got back from Wales late Monday evening, having had a fairly relaxing weekend there, after a trip to Morriston Hospital for Mother-in-Law to have a cancerous growth to be removed from her face (which all went very well indeed). Because waiting hours are between 2 and 8pm at the hospital, Daisy and I scooted off Friday morning had a nice lunch and went to the beach. It meant I actually got a few photos taken! I have been fiddling about with making some panoramas because last week I found a very clever program called Autostitch which takes a bunch of photos and makes a panorama from them without any input at all. Here's some of the results:
This one is of the place where my Nan used to live in the hills around Bridgend. My Dad actually helped build both of these houses! This photo is a composite of 3 photos (these taken on a Canon S45):
Click to see larger!
This one is a spectacular view that you get from just down the road from the above houses. The weather was creating some really amazing views. This photo is a composite of 14 photos (!) (all other photos taken on a Nikon D70).
Click to see a bit bigger!
The pot of gold was clearly at this person's house (click to see bigger):
We also went over to Ogmore-by-Sea and had a short walk along the beach. Here's a couple of photos (click them to see them bigger):
All three of us did very little else all weekend - just lounged around, watching telly and reading magazines. I did manage to do a little big of Christmas shopping which means I've nearly finished now. Yay! There's still some things in the post, but I'm sure they'll arrive in time now :o)
We're back off up to Wales on Thursday, this time for the big day on Sunday. We'll be coming back on Tuesday and having another Christmas Day then with my parents who live not far from us.
Hope you have a happy day!
We got back from Wales late Monday evening, having had a fairly relaxing weekend there, after a trip to Morriston Hospital for Mother-in-Law to have a cancerous growth to be removed from her face (which all went very well indeed). Because waiting hours are between 2 and 8pm at the hospital, Daisy and I scooted off Friday morning had a nice lunch and went to the beach. It meant I actually got a few photos taken! I have been fiddling about with making some panoramas because last week I found a very clever program called Autostitch which takes a bunch of photos and makes a panorama from them without any input at all. Here's some of the results:
This one is of the place where my Nan used to live in the hills around Bridgend. My Dad actually helped build both of these houses! This photo is a composite of 3 photos (these taken on a Canon S45):
Click to see larger!
This one is a spectacular view that you get from just down the road from the above houses. The weather was creating some really amazing views. This photo is a composite of 14 photos (!) (all other photos taken on a Nikon D70).
Click to see a bit bigger!
The pot of gold was clearly at this person's house (click to see bigger):
We also went over to Ogmore-by-Sea and had a short walk along the beach. Here's a couple of photos (click them to see them bigger):
All three of us did very little else all weekend - just lounged around, watching telly and reading magazines. I did manage to do a little big of Christmas shopping which means I've nearly finished now. Yay! There's still some things in the post, but I'm sure they'll arrive in time now :o)
We're back off up to Wales on Thursday, this time for the big day on Sunday. We'll be coming back on Tuesday and having another Christmas Day then with my parents who live not far from us.
Hope you have a happy day!
