Saturday, May 26, 2012

Dog Ride

In rush posting this right now, I just got home not long ago and I have something else to do afterwards, so... Just a short post anyway. Went to Hamilton today, to see waterfalls actually. I've planned to visit 7 or 8 falls but I ended up going to 3 only, not enough time that's why...  Worse part: I couldn't find the restaurant that I wanna go and my GPS is not helping at all!!  Arrg!!  That specific restaurant is not really in Hamilton (as per the internet), its actually somewhere close-ER to Cambridge!!!  Shhhh...!!  PS, I hand picked a big bucket of nice pebbles from Ontario Lake today!!  Will post pics next time~   =D

Saw this while I was driving on the highway......  I mean...driving over 110km/hr......

HOLY!!  ......That poor Retriever nearly felt off the truck!!!  o_O!!!

I was trying to get really close to the truck so that my husband can take a picture for me!!  He purposely rolled down the window to do it too!!

I bet she knows she is on camera!!  =D

PPS, 本想打中文,但不夠時間!明天去 Doors Open Toronto,要做 research!張 168sushi 優惠券可在明報或星島找到,either one。 今天吃不到改天再去也不遲,人少啲不是更好! =)

Monday, May 21, 2012

May 20 (Sunday) - Mill Pond Park, Richmond Hill

這博文給你。沒有去 Brimley & Lawrence,也沒有去 Stouffville Country Market(這個下星期六去,我要睇家禽~),我昨天只去了在 York Central 附近的 Mill Pond Park '探險'。這個小公園分有南、北兩個 pond。南邊的 pond 非常'文明',鋪有石屎小路放便散步;北邊的 pond 很多時都只有山路小徑。我為求目的,'格硬'在有小徑的地方闖進沒有路可走的地方去...什麼蟲、蟻、蜘蛛、蒼蠅都向我進攻...  又為了拍幾張照差點跌落水~  我看到要找的野生魚仔和 crayfish!!有好多,但捉不到!! =::::(    注:前半部的照片拍於南邊的 pond,後半部則拍於北邊的 pond。

 走進 Mill Pond Park 後立即見到這群雁游過來。六隻雁B,屬於正常數目。

 坐下了不久就看到這隻大惡霸游過來!牠的體型比普通雁大很多!!有人餵食,牠把所有麵包都搶過去,看到有別的雁與牠爭食,立即把對方的腳咬住不放!

 對上一張照拍得很黑,這張照卻有點反光!

 看到有東西吃,小雁B也游過來玩。好采沒有被大惡霸欺負!

 拍不到什麼湖光山色...只有這個景象。有風,倒影不夠清~!

 看!!在淤泥中看到 crayfish!!!但怎麼捉?!  ='(

 還有看到很多魚,這條黑色身上有點點的是其中一條。是什麼魚?!

 還有這條藍底有紅點,身上反光的見得最多!但捉不到!

 這又是什麼魚?!為了拍照而差點跌落水,這張照便是其中一張!我要踎喺道好耐,等條魚不再驚游過來才能拍到這些照...烈日當空,起來時覺得非常頭暈~ @@

 怎知牠一游來,嚇到所有魚走哂!激死~~!!

 剛考遇到個阿伯在釣魚,他看到我拍照拍的辛苦,釣了這條魚特意給我影相。看真些,這應該是條 orange spotted sunfish。這種魚我以前釣過,所以知道。雖然體積不大,但煎封了很好吃~~

 食完飯,走人!咦?!為什麼啲 B 跟了別人走佬?!

 這隻水鴨又肥有大!不怕人,而且非常有性格!我踎在它面前,越行越近牠也不怕!

 看牠 pat pat!! 肥得有點那個!!後面嗰隻鴨係佢個 girlfriend。樣子差很遠!哈~

 這是牠第二個女朋友,樣子差得更遠!!

 我走得太近,牠大概不喜歡吧,於是走人。牠的兩個女朋友被我嚇得跳進水裏,牠則在陸地上徘徊不肯下水。

 大惡霸的'老婆',在整理樹枝孵蛋中。聽說好像有八隻蛋。這個時候應該出世了吧?!

 走完 Mill Pond 的南面,現在到北面探險。這裏雖然樹木多,但尚算是條'康莊大道'。越走越入就變成小徑了。

 這種不知是什麼的 '掃把' 草比我還要高,到處都是!!

 進入了這個荒無之地,眼前已經無路可走,盡是這種枯乾的蘆葦(就是這個時候啲昆蟲向我撲過來!!)。

 看,前面已經是水,再不能向前走。這種像掃把的草又在我面前出現(拍這個照又差點跌落水!)。

 台頭望上天,看到這些東西。

 不惜來到這裏,是為了拍這張照,而且聽到一些像'彈琵琶'的動物叫聲,想知道那是什麼(這次沒有跌落水算好采!)。這隻龜很大隻,超過十二吋長,而且不知是什麼龜(我只認得巴西龜)。牠看到我走近,來不及跳進水中,只能縮埋個頭!

(千萬個對不起,這段 video (復活)已被切底洗去!!)
細心傾聽,你會聽到有些像'彈琵琶'的聲音出現,如果你知道那些是什麼聲音,請告訴我!我找了很久都看不見那隻東西。又:這個 video 19mb 沒有經過壓縮,希望不會因太大而 load 得慢...

 池塘中看到有幾條超級大的錦鯉在游來游去,這是其中一條。 Zoom 到最近都只能拍到這樣。

 跟著大錦鯉所游的方向看過去,嚇然看到一條更大的錦鯉!!看那條大錦鯉(左邊)與超、超、超大錦鯉(橙色)的對比!!

 這個池塘算平靜,所以能夠拍到這樣的景色。對面的乾蘆葦群就是我影龜的地方。

 這個嘛... 右邊的兩個人在放狗,他把一個 tennis 波用球拍拍到池塘中,然後叫隻狗游去執波。照片中拍到兩個主人,狗狗和波波。

 好多魚噢~~~~~~~~~ 點捉呢??!

這隻雀一直看著我們在岸邊玩水。與其說'玩水',倒不如說看著我們怎麼想辦法捉魚吧!嘻~~

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Victoria Day Looooong Weekend

Victoria Day long weekend~!!  =)  It's like the beginning of summer and locals like doing gardening (except travelling) during this time.  I know some of you might not like flowers or plants, 'coz it's a girl thing nevertheless.  Yet, put it in this way:  go through my pics below and let me know how I can improve my photo shooting skills, like angles and positions...etc.  Don't talk about ISO, I have no clue of what that is!  I've spent almost 6 hours writing this post 'coz I got lots of interruption in between, so enjoy!  =)

 One single plant and their flowers are in three different colors, how neat!!

 Hosta, picture taken at my Mom' garden.

 I think I'm getting a better angle of taking pictures of this kind of flower after all.

 Needs improvement obviously!!

 I forgot the name of this plant in English, but I usually call it 椰菜!!Haha!!

 Or maybe its called 'kale'?!

 Snapdragons - 狗仔。

 Pansies, the most common flower found here in Spring.

 I forgot the name of this flower, I just know it has several colors and this is one of my favorite one.  PS, I shouldn't be using 16:9 mode to take this shot...right??!

 As you can see: carrots!

 There was a lady standing next to me looking at this flower, and I was able to snap a shot before she picked the pot!  Lucky!!

 Again, I shouldn't be using 16:9 mode to take this shot, right?!

 This kind of flower is hanging upside down.  I don't know its name, but it's kinda cool!  I took this shot in a nursery garden in Newmarket.

 I like the name of this plant:  Solomon's Seal.  =)

 ....Why the hell did I take this ugly pic??!

 One of my favorite plant, which this one is in pink.

 Marigold, you know what I call it as well??  雲耳!!LOL!!

 Don't know what kinda flower this is, it looks like a morning glory in odd color, I might be wrong.

 Wrong angle!!  But almost there!

 I don't know what kind of flower this is, but I guess I shouldn't be focusing my camera on the 2nd flower here?!

 ....Looks like a mess!!

 Common 野花?!

 Looks okay, but the image itself is not 'crisp' enough??!

 Um...it belongs to the Dalia family?!

 I guess this flower belongs to the Dalia family as well.

 This flower is green in color, I find it's kinda rare, so I took a picture of it.

 This thing is huge!!  Some sort of tropical flower I guess?!

 A closer shot at this huge weird flower.  Those plums look like 火龍果~  =D

 Assorted mini cactus.

 Some sort of 'grass', I was just simply playing with my camera.

 Forgot the name...forget it!

 花中花?!  That's neat!

 Forgot the name, but I took this picture at Loblaw's nursery.

 This looks more like 野草 than flower?!

 Don't ask, I forgot why I took a shot like this....

 Um....the sky is not blue enough this day to get the shot I want....and there are clouds too!!  No good!

 Tulips, I took this shot inside Loblaws.  It was the day before Mother's Day so there were lots of flowers in stock that day.

 People were lining up to buy flowers....

 Blue (dyed) chrysanthemum.

 I still remembered receiving something like this on my uni grad, which was like ___ years ago!!  LOL!!

 Oh yeah, people were lining up buying flowers....

 ....and I was busy taking pictures too!!  LOL!!

 This color combination looks so....so 慘?!

 Green little chrysanthemum.

 This bouquet doesn't look good....

 Don't know what kind of flower this is....a 杜鵑 maybe?!

 English Daisy??!  Neh, doesn't look like it though!!

 Angle looks okay to me...but it's not vivid enough....

 I swear I will not be taking any more of this kind of flower again....

 Pine?!!  Right??!

 It's not every autumn yet, why are they selling that many 菊?!Mums right??!


 Love taking flower when they're wet with water drops recently...  =)

 Well...at least the sky is blue, which is something I am looking for, but the flower itself is not nice...  Picture no good...

 雞冠花, that's all I know.

 Ewwwwww......  Monkey tail??  Mom likes this flower and she asked me to take a shot of this.

 This flower looks like a 瀨尿蝦!Well, use some imagination if you don't see it in this way!

 Lily of the valley?!  Smells good but hard to keep!

 Here is another shot!

 Bla....I like these curls~  It belongs to 'an alien plant'...that's how I call it.

 The way of how this picture was taken is pretty close to what I'm expecting...  =)

Shooting this with peony will have a better result.  =)