My Magic Camera

You might remember that I had previously commented that I received a “magic camera” for my birthday. You might have dismissed this information, as perhaps you do not believe me that it is magic and suspect that I was, in fact, exaggerating a wee bit. I assure you, however, that there is no other explanation for all of the things that my camera can do But magic.

How else do you explain its ability to hold over 600 high resolution pictures at a time?! As a result of this astounding property, (I assume the result of a spell like Hermoine’s Undetectable Extension Charm) I returned home from my latest travels with almost 1300 pictures!

I am including here just a very few that best exemplify some of its other magical properties.

Freeze: I was standing on the dock talking when I saw Dan’s niece buzzing by out of the corner of my eye. I spun and fired off a shot hardly even taking time to aim let alone focus. Not only did I get the shot, but I also caught a preteen Smiling!

Fly: Mount Hood












True Colors: Carolina Blue, Cedar Point Orange and a wry impish smile. That’s my baby.
I also have at least 30 amazing shots from the Portland Inter-national Rose Test Garden.





Apparate to Exotic Foreign Places: San Fran’s China Town and Portland’s famous Japanese Garden















See in the Dark: I took these pictures without a flash in the Tuckaleechee Caverns near Townsend, Tennessee. You would not believe how slow the shutter speeds were. Sometimes I held my breath for what seemed like close to two seconds and they Still turned out in focus. Now That’s magic and no denying it…