The things photographers go through for the perfect picture

Today while walking home from school, in up in the twilight above the mountains that surround us here in AB was the wondrous sight of the New Moon and Venus. I booted it home and ran in to get my camera and tripod to set it up in the dark behind my unit, the unit across from me and over behind Clare's (as it was nice and dark over there).

Well, I got my ever so excellent picture of the New Moon eating Venus (looks like PacMan chasing after a dot) ... but in the process I managed to not only freeze up my tripod but my hands as well (even though I had my nice and warm gloves on with me).

Once I get my bandwidth back I'll be posting on up photos of the afternoon sky here in AB... but for now, you can head on over to The House and Other Arctic Musings to get a glimpse at what is hovering above us here in AB.

Helping the Earth get a Little Greener

Today at school, as part of our end of year activities, this morning we had a huge garbage clean up bonanza on the school grounds, along the main road and along the shore line.

The students did a fantastic job - collecting and filling over 70 HUGE garbage bags full of garbage that has been unveiled from the meting snow.

Way to go!




In the afternoon we had a BBQ with hot dogs and juice picnic hosted by the Hamlet for the students and community members and a movie that we projected onto the wall using the LCD projector in the gym for the students once the picnic was finished.