Wednesday in Tucson... lights

I love Christmas lights !
I drive around at night and just look at them. Beautiful !
This is the  Paloverde Tree in front of my home
taken with three different setting on my camera.

 

This was a long exposure that I had to hold the camera still for.
I am really not able to do that but I rather liked the way this one came out.

For some reason when these photos posted the color dulled so much.
The colors were so bright and I lost all red ?
I seem to be having more and more color problems when I post from picasa directly to blogger. I am lost to understand why ?

I am rather frustrated.
I had my cards Christmas cards printed last week in November,
and ready to fold and put in the addressed and stamped envelopes. So far so good, right ?
Last night I started to fold them and realized they printed the cards on a semi-gloss paper.
The problem is when you fold it the paper the color cracks leaving a white line....
 aurg !
This is the second time something like this happened this year with the paper.
My fault because I was paying too much attention to the color and did not really looking at the paper.
So today I will run back and see if I can get the card reprinted on the right paper.
I just hope I can fold the card and get the mail to Japan and the UK out in time for Christmas delivery !
arugh !
I seem to be making lots of these small, silly, weird
and frustrating mistakes lately.

frustrated. . . parsnip
music. . . The Holly and The Ivy,  Annie Lennox