Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (25 Dec 1642-1727)
Silvana Harwood Happy Christmas to you all! Patrick James Dunn Happiest of Happy Christmas to you and Bruce, and a Healthy New Year to you both, Ragazza Silvana! We'd love you to come and visit so let us know when to expect you. Once we've done a few days, (or weeks), of wine tasting, we'll all head up to Little Shushwap to freeload with the Squamoids!
Betty Chapin Looking' good, you two! Merry Christmas! xoxox Patrick James Dunn Hi Betty! Trust you and Andrew are well. Come and visit and see what life in The Okanagan is all about. Healthy New Year from Lady Darjeeling and I! Mme Coriandre's tasty, tasty borscht. Who knew she was a closet Ukrainian! Ayn P Don't you have hot pink crocs to match that super cool camera strap?? I do and I'll dig them out for a New Year's Eve selfie! Silvana Harwood Sounds like a plan Patrick. Love to you both Sylvie Roy Hi all of you from Quebec City! xxx
Patrick James Dunn Hello
and Fondest of Fond Wishes to our Dearest Sylvaine! You need to visit
now that you are retired. No excuses! You are always welcome! Plaque,
hanging next to our front door, given to us by wonderful friends, The
Peggster and Mr Fixit, from Newfoundland!
See you soon, I trust! Cheers!!!!
Joanne Trueman Merry Christmas you two
Louise Sartorio great pic of you both frown emoticon
Nancy Mennel Hey, I recognize that jacket!!! Merry,Merry!
Peter Edwards Merry Christmas Pat and Corinne! Happy New Year too!
Ginette Bertrand Your wear an Okanagan Winter very well! Merry Christmas!
Ron Simmer Merry white Christmas.... we only have snow on the mountains!
Kurt Traugott Merry Christmas you two and only the best for the coming year, good health, lots of laughter and love Sylvie Roy Best regards to you and Corinne xxx. All the best for you!Happy Christmas Hikers! Trust everyone has enjoyed, or is still enjoying, a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. I know that this is a very busy time of year so am just sending out a reminder:
Open House, 611 Burns
Street, Penticton, Boxing Day, Saturday, December 26th, anytime
after 2:00 pm until the reindeer go home or the hootch runs out!
And he's down for his long winter's nap🎄🎅] Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge, and politician (17 Dec 1796-1865)
Dear Friends and Neighbours:
On behalf of The Sisterhood, (Corinne and Chloë, our
youngest daughter, up from Vancouver, for Xmas), we'd like to invite you to
join us for our first Okanagan Open House. Please pop by to say hello and share
some Christmas Cheer, visit with us and friends, old and new, tell stories
or lies, or both, and just generally enjoy the spirit of the season. With best
wishes from The Dames. Cheers, Patrizzio, both Butler and Bartender!
We'd love to see you but if not, Healthy New Year to one and all. Hope to see many of you out snowshoeing now that Santa left me a pair! Cheers, Patrizzio!
Ryan Sutherland Does he need a miners cap for next year?
We'd love to see you but if not, Healthy New Year to one and all. Hope to see many of you out snowshoeing now that Santa left me a pair! Cheers, Patrizzio!
Patrick James Dunn No, just a Mining Engineer's salary as this is the car I'm forced to drive!
Patrick James Dunn Once a Cyclops, always a Cyclops! You'd want to lie down after a breakfast of Prosecco and orange juice! Patrick James Dunn Not
to mention the low-calorie Hollandaise, free-range, sustainable
cackle-berries, tofu back-bacon, gluten-free, chickpea flour croissants,
all Vegan approved!
Patrick James Dunn Simply no accounting for you Antipodeans!
Dear Patricio!! Happy Merry Christmas! and a very Happy Healthy Joyful and Prosperous 2016 (of a fire monkey) to You and Yours! [lots of new books, cycling trips and peaches :)] best wishes, Misha
Sylvie Roy shared Livres Hebdo's photo.
Ayn P Patrick James Dunn Just back from our own Christmas Day walk, part along the KVR, down to the lake and then back home!
My goodness, I'm so stuffed l feel like the turkey we just feasted
on. We are so lucky and very blessed to live in a free country with an
abundance of delicious food and good wine all the while surrounded by
our loved ones.
We had another wonderful Christmas and
tomorrow will continue to visit with more family and friends.... More
eats and drinks!l l'll be Rollie Pollie not Olga Polga by the time I
get back home.
So sorry to miss your Open House (since I don't get home until January 12th) but 'thank you' for your generosity. I so miss you guys.
Meanwhile, here's wishing you and yours the best in the New Year!!!!! Hugs:)
Ayn P Are you training for the tandem luge Patrick James Dunn
Wish I could be there Patick,...am spending Christmas with My son in San Francisco ..was great!! Went to see Charles Dickens play " A Christmas Carol"..absolutely superb!!..Back to Santa Barbara tomorrow!!...hope to get back to hiking there where there are some great trail!! Wishing you the Best in 2016 and I'm sure some of the hikers will be delighted to share Boxing Day at your Open House!! Have Fun!!...
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Patrick James Dunn Colourful babe requires colourful accessories! Patrick James Dunn I'll start with a bicycle built for two and then work up!
For the first time since 1977, there will be a full moon on Christmas Day this year. The precise moment of the full moon will be at 4:11 a.m. MT Friday in Calgary. "As the sun is rising in the east, look in the west and you'll see this beautiful full moon, provided the skies are clear, setting in the west," the starman said. "It doesn't happen very often: it's surprisingly rare." In fact, the last Christmas Day full moon happened in 1977 — the year the first Star Wars movie came out, Hladiuk says. "And guess what came out in December of this year, another Star Wars movie, so it's almost like full circle in a way."
Hladiuk says snapping a good picture of the moon should be quite easy.
"The full moon is so bright, you can be in the most light-polluted part of Calgary [or in] the country, where you could read a newspaper to the full moon it's so bright," he said. "So that's the beautiful part of a full moon. You don't really have to travel anywhere to see it. You don't need extra dark skies."
Hladiuk recommends an ISO of anywhere from 400 to 800 and a fairly fast shutter speed to be sure not to overexpose the picture.
"If you're just trying to take a picture of the moon itself, it is surprisingly bright and you'll need like 1/125th of a second," he said. He says a long lens of 300 to 400 mm will allow you to zoom right in on the moon itself. "But there's also another thing you can try, and that's just taking the scenery illuminated by the moonlight," he said. A longer exposure of four to six seconds can create an interesting effect, he said. "It'll look like daylight, but you'll still see stars in the background," he said.
Carol Riera You look FABULOUS! Paprika, you will not lose the camera anytime soon! heart emoticon
Patrick James Dunn Colourful babe requires colourful accessories! Patrick James Dunn I'll start with a bicycle built for two and then work up!
For the first time since 1977, there will be a full moon on Christmas Day this year. The precise moment of the full moon will be at 4:11 a.m. MT Friday in Calgary. "As the sun is rising in the east, look in the west and you'll see this beautiful full moon, provided the skies are clear, setting in the west," the starman said. "It doesn't happen very often: it's surprisingly rare." In fact, the last Christmas Day full moon happened in 1977 — the year the first Star Wars movie came out, Hladiuk says. "And guess what came out in December of this year, another Star Wars movie, so it's almost like full circle in a way."
"The full moon is so bright, you can be in the most light-polluted part of Calgary [or in] the country, where you could read a newspaper to the full moon it's so bright," he said. "So that's the beautiful part of a full moon. You don't really have to travel anywhere to see it. You don't need extra dark skies."
Hladiuk recommends an ISO of anywhere from 400 to 800 and a fairly fast shutter speed to be sure not to overexpose the picture.
"If you're just trying to take a picture of the moon itself, it is surprisingly bright and you'll need like 1/125th of a second," he said. He says a long lens of 300 to 400 mm will allow you to zoom right in on the moon itself. "But there's also another thing you can try, and that's just taking the scenery illuminated by the moonlight," he said. A longer exposure of four to six seconds can create an interesting effect, he said. "It'll look like daylight, but you'll still see stars in the background," he said.
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