Tea, cameras, and a new way to celebrate Tuesday Tea

No tea today. 

Instead, I'm in my craft room where safety rules.  I'm drinking freshly ground French Roast coffee, turned white with half and half in an ugly mug that has a lid and straw.  No chance it will get mistaken for a paint clean-up jar.  And it's hard to tip it over, too.

On my table are my two old cameras.  The silver one in back is the one I've used for years.  The red one is the one I've been taking photos with the past few weeks.

I didn't read the 9000 plus pages of instructions (grin) to this new camera before I started snapping photos on "auto," so the top photo was accidentally taken with the flash on.  I finally figured out how to turn it off, and this is what I got when I did.

Just so you can see the difference, here is what the new Kodak camera looks like when I took a photo with my red camera.  Now all I need is a battery charger for Lithium, as opposed to NiCad batteries, and I'll be set to take photos with that Kodak for years to come.

I also want to announce next week we will begin using Mr. Linky, along with what I am calling T Stands For Tuesday.  Since I will be hosting and I really don't believe in rules, we will have a few guidelines.  I want Tuesdays to represent talk, art, whimsey, photos, your drink of choice, whether it is tea or some other drink, and whatever you want to blog about.   

You don't have to drink tea, you don't have to take the photo on Tuesday, you can talk about anything, enjoy any drink, even create a recipe, show journal pages, flower arranging, encaustics, your favorite pet, sewing, altered book pages, a shopping trip, a day at the beach, visiting a museum, shoveling snow, skate boarding, combing your hair (you get the idea), and any photos, as long as you can relate them in some way to T Stands for Tuesday.  I'm sure many of you can put a cup, mug, a coke sign, or even an empty glass somewhere in camera range, and join in T Stands For Tuesday fun.  For now, please leave your link in comments and we'll stop by for a visit.  Next week, we'll have links each week, which will make it much easier for others to find you.

If you like, please join me for this final Tea Tuesday without links.   It will be fun to see if we get a few new people to join us this week. 

And don't forget to wish me luck finding a battery charger!