Below. Frank wrote: > Hi, All, > As someone said, boy it's been quiet here over the last coupla days. > What's up with that? It's Victoria Day weekend here in Canada (except > Quebec); is it a holiday weekend elsewhere? Ah yes, yet another > remnant of our glorious Colonial past; despite the fact that we've been > "independant" for over 130 years, we still celebrate Queen Victoria's > birthday. > > It's more often called "May Two Four" - ostnensibly because Her > Highness' birthday is actually on the 24th - but in reality because it's > traditionally the first weekend of summer, and everyone buys a "two > four" (ei, a pack of 24 beer) and gets out of town to party (or stays in > town to party). Unfortunately for us here in Southern Ontario, we are > in the midst of the coldest May Two-Four in 50 years. High of about 10 > today, low of maybe 0 (average high should be 18), and a chance of rain > Ick..
> What else is anyone else doing this weekend? Sorry to go on about > Canada and Victoria Day and all, but hey, it's been deadly quiet here, > so I thought I'd ramble. Well, I can add, that up here in Sweden this weekend is Pingstafton (yesterday). Pingstdagen and Pingstannandagen (you smarties figure that one out :) ) (Clue: Pentecostal, Holy Spirit... etc). (It's just that my command of English doesn't really cover the religious terminology sufficiently to comfortably explain it better, why I invite anyone so inclined to explain this Christian holiday correctly.) We are still in spring, with summer closing in (nights are yet slightly too chilly) and nights are getting lighter. However days have been sunny and great. Met a young woman friend day before yesterday who didn't mind, or maybe even liked to have pictures taken of her, why I put my 50mm to work and spent the better part of a (400 asa color, available window light) roll on her, deciding to do another shoot day after tomorrow. Don't know really for what purpose yet, other than my (and mayby her) enjoyment in doing it. She happened to have and suggested trying a roll of 3200 Tmax from 1999, but i like color... We'll see. Other than that, mostly writing articles and trying to find, select and digitally make old pictures (scanned from various old publications) useable. Interesting challenge, imagewise. Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
