Have a good weekend Frank. The Queens actual birthday is April 15. Here in West Australia the Queens birthday public holiday is Sept. 26. The rest of the country has it on Jun 13.
Weird! Tamron 2.5 90mm Macro...you too can now become a bug and flower guy :-) Looking forward to the day when we can see some "Theriaultian" macro shots. <g> Dave On 5/21/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's first thing Saturday morning, and in about 1/2 hour, I'm off to > Kingston to visit the kids for the long weekend. This is our Victoria > Day weekend. May 24 is when we celebrate the birthday of our last > Empress, Queen Victoria. I don't think it's actually her birthday, > but it's when we celebrate it. And, the weekend closest the 24th is a > long weekend. Traditionally the first weekend of the "summer season": > one opens the cottage (if one has a cottage), goes camping (that's > where the 2-4 comes in - a 2-4 being the largest case of beer we can > buy), or generally gets out of town like me. Oh yeah, and from now to > Labour day, we can wear white shoes... <vbg> > > Whilst in Kingston, we plan on heading up to Ottawa for the last > weekend of the Tulip Festival, which started after WWII in recognition > of the close ties between our countrty and the Netherlands during that > war. We helped liberate their country and allowed their Royal Family > to stay here for the duration, and now we have tulips and let ING bank > do bad TV ads. <g> > > So, what to bring? Some rolls of colour print film (Fuji 200 of some > sort), LX, Tamron 2.5 90mm Macro, Vivitar VS1 3.8 24-48, Vivitar VS1 > 2.8 35-85, Pentax 1.2 50mm, Zenitar 2.8 16mm fisheye, plus a flash. > That should cover it. > > Some of those lenses are recent enablements that I haven't mentioned > here yet. This weekend will be the first real test of a couple of > them. > > Whether it's a long weekend for you or not, hava good 'un, and I'll > catch y'all Monday evening. > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
