Lovely Showery Spring Day in Portland

After spending six weeks in southern Arizona, where the weather was turning hot, it was nice to get back home where the air is refreshing in the sprint rains. The flowers are blooming profusely and the cherry blossoms have never been more beautiful. 

On my walk, after picking up my Starbucks lattè, I was in awe of the gorgeous large pink flowers on the trees. Thank goodness for my trusty iPhone which assures I always have a good camera with me. The lady and her dog was a sweet happenstance of timing. 

Watch for more posts as I learn to make them using my iPad Mimi. 

That is it for now. 

Grace and Paul

Spring in Green Valley, Arizona 2015 Then Portland

We have had a good time during our regular visit to Green Valley. Now that the cactus are starting to bloom and the temperature is into the 90s it is time to head for home.

Then back to lovely flowery and rainy Portland, Oregon.

Cholla cactus and early morning shasdowa.

 

This is my first test of posting using my iPad. Hope it works. 

All for now,

Grace and Paul

Winter 2015 Activities

Publishing a Book and Photographing a Wedding
January and February, 2015

Paul served in the Peace Corps in Iran in the mid 1960s. Soon after he returned he wrote about his experiences during the two years. Recently he went back to the original manuscript, which was on our website for a while, to re-edit the text. Paul had taken a lot of pictures during his stay using an old Argus 35mm camera with a 50mm lens and Kodachrome ASA 10 slide film. At one point he scanned the slides, but didn't do a very good job. Enter Grace. She worked over all the pictures, doing marvelous things to them using Lightroom. She also learned how to use the Blurb Plug-In for Adobe InDesign to create a customized book. This has been large project and we are both happy we completed it. The book can be viewed online, in its entirety at:
http://www.blurb.com/b/5944170-hello-mister

Grace was asked to be the wedding photographer for one of Paul's cousins on Valentines Day. Since she had never done this kind of photography, she studied, listened to tutorial, got some extra photo gear, and practiced. Paul was also the co-photographer, and covered different aspects of the two day event. We covered the rehearsal, dinner, getting ready for the wedding, the actual ceremony and the reception. It was a beautiful wedding which blended the American traditional and aspects of the Fiji Hindu traditions. After Grace developed the photos using Adobe Lightroom she posted some of them on line at PitzerShare.Smugmug.com. Then she completed a lovely wedding album for the bride and groom: This is open for viewing at:
http://www.blurb.com/b/6023557-raj-and-amy-singh

After these two big events, Grace and Paul left for Arizona for some R&R for a few week.

Stay tuned for more adventures with the Pitzers.


That's it for now. Grace and Paul