Stroll by the garden.. after the rain.

Dried oregano stems can double as toothpicks for sandwiches

--
Ruben Brito

blogs: http://flavors.me/urbenz
quirky community: http://bit.ly/b11bjP

Sage

Go Pro Hd cam footage

D5000 exhaustive, but good review

Morning Glory Footage

Mark Watson takes on the Red Bull Glorious Days Project - Nikon D300S from My Nikon Life on Vimeo.

on the verge of a new SLR: Nikon D5000

My old Canon 300d is on it's way out, and I've been heavily using my compact Nikon and my camera phone for my other blogs (especially sprout30d.blogspot.com).  It is sad because the camera really helped me learn the manual mode and figure out how to take good pictures so I didn't have to spend too much time with post-processing.

The main camera I'm looking at is Nikon D5000.  Mainly because it has the tilt and swivel lcd lens.  The other thing I've noticed when using Nikon's is that they produce beautiful low light, hi ISO pictures and focus really fast.

We have a new child coming into the house and I want to have gear in tip top shape just like I did for my son.

Here are some links that I'm looking at to research my next SLR.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD5000/

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD5000/page11.asp

After my 6 or 7 years of using an SLR I am definitely getting 2 high speed SDHC cards from samsung, an extra battery, a remote, macro lenses, a hood, and a telephoto zoom lens.  On Amazon I am seeing all of this adding up to around 740 bucks with free shipping.  During the week I'll be shopping around to see if I can snag a better deal.

Garden shots

echoing stuff from my other blog sprout30d.blogspot.com...

neat tripod (shameless promotion)

Awesome looking tripod.

New Blog about my garden adventures

Check out my new blog sprout30d.blogspot.com/.  I've been reading about gardening and was advised to make a journal of the events that happen in my garden... so I could be a better gardener.  The blog will have photos + little posts on different purchases and things related to my garden and yard.  Twitter posts will be relayed here as well.

So take a look already!  sprout30d.blogspot.com/ !

Peace,

- Ruben

May NH nature

Tulips

Pastel Eggs

cloth for hardwoods

This is a macro shot of a cloth Alyssa uses to clean hardwoods.

husk cherry shell

comb

Got 4 macro lenses a couple weeks ago. Very pleased with the potential.

Frost

brush

Hope you have a great New Year! This was done while trying out an obsolete Nikon D50. Thanks, Ron! My DSLR is on it's way out, so I'm trying out my options.

Obituary

We always use newspapers and sawdust to start our wood stove fires. The ashes from these fires are gathered into a container and spread around the garden. As I walked by the garden today there were a few shreds of newspaper that hadn't fully burned.

Light + Water

Starting work for my mom's company BLUESKYS. Experimenting with light (sun, flashlights) through containers of water.