Still Sunday - Fruits and Vegetables

The Be Still theme for the week was fruits and vegetables, and following Xanthe's colour of the week - yellow.

You know when you go to the grocery store to pick out fruits and vegetables you are supposed to pick a rainbow of colours and you always admire the person in front of you for eating so healthy, well it was quite interesting to watch my parade of yellow move along the checkout belt to the cashier.  All shades of yellow with a splash of green.

The set up was done in my basement in front of south facing windows with a late afternoon light. Light was also reflected on the opposite side to prevent dark spots.  Processing was done in Lightroom, using the Auto button, adjusting the exposure and reducing noise.

This was my favorite, with the LensBaby Composer and f4 aperture ring.

A couple of close ups

And two others I liked

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Friday finds

It's now two weeks into the two courses I signed up for, Kim Klassen's Be Still and The Studio.  Only two weeks in and I'm behind.  If I worked 40 - 50 hours a week with 10 hours of commuting, I could really understand, but I work part-time from home.  Oh well, there's always next week to catch up.

While trying to do my assignments, which of course nothing is quite right, I found this week that I have rediscovered my love for my camera.  I love to take photos and I'm working on getting to like the processing.  I have also found my lost love for taking photos of food. This of course means I must cook more, which I am sure is why I'm behind on my classes.

I've taken to making a lot of soups this winter (and the bread to go with it) and I've never had Italian Wedding Soup.  I've always assumed that this was a special soup served at weddings, but apparently not so, it's a reference of the marriage of green vegetables and meat.  Who knew.

Wednesday's soup was so good we decided on soup again on Thursday. While chopping the vegetables for a cabbage soup and putting them into little piles, this photo came to be.

Not ready to put down the camera quite yet

I'm luck to live with a patient man, as he has come to learn that dinner isn't served until the photos are finished.

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A busy week

It's been a busy week here.  We don't often go to the big city, but this week we went twice to pick up insulation for the garage and a little Christmas shopping. It's very cold here, but the highway was clear after last week's storm.

Still on the highway, but in the city there are massive power lines.  As ugly as they are, but cool in a certain way, we'd be a little lost without power.

Shooting out the window of the truck I happened to get a little burst of light while trying to get a shot of the snow mountain in the parking lot.

Back at home and back in the warm kitchen, we decided on roasted winter vegetables for dinner.  A little salt and pepper then topped with chopped garlic and scallions and baked in the oven.  Oh my, they were delicious.

My son and daughter-in-law gave me a new cookbook, The Complete Book of Bread & Bread Machines so I tried a new recipe, French Dimpled Rolls.  I lost the dimple during the proofing and baking, but they were so good.  The recipe can be found all over the internet if you google French Dimpled Rolls.

I hope you all had a good week and thank you for such a warm welcome back.

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