More QR stuff - how to!

There was a question about this site following this post - thanks Atley for your comment. So I have posted these screen shots with some additional instructions.

QR Generator Page

Simple instructions

Once you're on the site you need to first of all inset the URL that you want people to go to - ie. your blog address, facebook page which can be found in the URL address bar of that site.  In my case it was www.fredwaters.ca which you see I've inserted into the second image below.  Secondly, you'll need to determine the kind of information you want to generate.  You'll see the options: URL, text, phone, SMS - any of these contact points can be used.  So if you're wanting someone to be able scan your QR code and get your phone number you can do that too!  Third, how large do you want your QR code?  I chose large - but then realized "wow that's kind of big!  So though this post has the large one, I've changed the one in my side  bar to medium.

 

Finally - you'll want to copy the code that is generated for your QR code - which sites just below the instructions.  Once you have that, you're able to paste it into the appropriate place on your blog or wherever you're going to use it.

Just for the record, I'm not endorsing this QR generating site - I simply found it, used it, liked it.

If you want to create a multitude of QR codes, in different colours, even in print I highly recommend thsi site!  This one is very good and the layout, while filled with more information is well organized and is very clear in the steps that need to take place.

Why people don't go to Church

A video for anyone...and how I feel about my Church.

Sunday smile

Generating a QR code

They are everywhere it seems.  From the pages of magazines to the exterior of buses.  QR codes have become a favourite to direct traffic to websites - and to communicate digitally.  Scan this code and you'll come to my blog - but if you would like to create your own QR code here's an easy site that will do the job: QR Code Generator.

Ice Road - Yellowknife

 Looking out on the lake

These photos are from March 31, 2008, and a visit to Yellowknife.  This part of the world is very pretty - a harsh climate that shines when the sun comes out and the snow gleams!  The sky can be very blue here.  We had time to go explore the ice road just outside of Yellowknife.  The ice is thick - to say the least - of course trucks are on it.

The ice is dark too as you gaze into the deep water.  Beneath the ice is some big fish - I love Artic Char though I've never done any ice fishing up here. 

The Ice Road begins

From 2007 to 2011 I travelled a fair amount in the north - and I really came to love this part of Canada.  I enjoy the people of the north too.  They are the present day pioneers - they love a challenge and have hearts ready for adventure.  When I talk to people in "the south" they sound like they are afraid of the north.  

True the winters are long - the days dark, but equally during summer the days are long!  Very long.

I'm so glad to have had this opportunity and am grateful for how this has informed my view of Canada.

There's an Ice Castle on the Lake

Houseboat in the Ice

Walking on the Lake

Cold but sunny - we love it!

Wendy grabbing a photo by the road

Looking thru the ice road

How thick is that?

Walking on the road

Here comes an Ice Road Trucker!

These are wide highways

Why I carry a camera

Grandma R with Ruth and Wendy

 I was going through some old photos and came across these of the Redbourne side of the family.  Wendy's family loved picnics and celebrations - in fact they had many gatherings that were good fun - especially if Grandpa R was in the room.  He had a multitude of songs and poems and jokes.  He always offered me a "cold one" though he knew I wouldn't drink beer, and he always made us feel like they were delighted to see us.  He was a very charming man....not tall but charming.

Barb listens to Ruth

A few people in these photos are gone now, and I did their funerals including Grandpa & Grandma R and Barb too.

We've lost a few family members - only natural of course - but they are not forgotten.  Those we love live on in our hearts - and in the photographs we take.  So you might wonder why I always have a camera with me, or almost always.  Here's one reason as you look at these captured memories!

A hot day - seeking for shade

So let me encourage you - get out your camera - take some photos while you can.  Photoshop is powerful software but it can't create memories you didn't capture!

Grandpa R's 70th birthday

Grandma & Grandpa R

Meghan & Adele - she's all grown up now!

Keith & Jean

A New Year's Day gathering

Grandma R

A family who loved picnics

Ruth with her Dad on a birthday

Mercy Seat from Montreal Citadel

From Montreal Citadel

In my quest to record photographically as many of the old Mercy Seats as possible, I have a photo from our trip to Montreal.  This one isn't as old as some of the previous ones I have recorded, but it is still an important piece - dedicated in memory of Commissioner MacMillan I believe.  Unfortunately I forgot to get  a good close up of the plaque on the front!

Montreal Citadel has relocated from their historic site on St. Catherines Street.  But I believe this Mercy Seat has followed the good folks to their new location.

If you're familiar with this one - let me know if you recognize the details on the front plaque - or if you know what it would say because you're familiar with it let me know- leave a comment or email me.

This precious place of prayer remains a reminder of God's forgiving nature - his deep desire to see all receive His promised abundant life - no matter who we are or where we come from - God is love.

The Global Village

Three big planes off to other parts of the world.  We are a global village - that was the determination of Marshall McLuhan 40 years ago.  The 3 R's have been replaced by the 3 T's...travel, technology and television.  The third T might be replaced now by the internet.  Did you know that Marshall McLuhan also predicted the World Wide Web 30 years before it was invented.

At the airport I looked out upon these three planes loading passengers for their journey.  Where are they going?  I suppose I could assume the Air Jamaica flight is going to Jamaica!

Me?  I was going to Regina - a mild minus 18 when I got there.  Not bad for mid January!

Regret lives a long time

Recently, after being a way for a few days I noticed that there was something  living in the back of the fridge... well not really living.  It had died while we were away.  (I think I'll get in trouble for the opening of this blog)  I pulled it out, tried to figure out what it had been.  Yes it was definitely morphing into something to be used for medical research.

That didn't last long I thought.

Some things have a short shelf life - other things live for a long time.  One of the things that lives a long time is regret.  A bad decision, no matter how far in the past, can really live a long time.  My dear Grandmother lived to be in her 90's and as a young man I remember she seemed to have many regrets.  Too many.

I suppose we all have some regrets. Dickens lets us see how Scrooge works to overcome his regrets and how he worked to change his reputation!  Of course Captain Schettino likely regrets taking his ship so close to shore - and perhaps even more he regrets leaving the ship!  Saving his reputation is likely a remote possibility!

Ed Stetzer has a great blog posting on regret as it relates to reputation.  Not all regret is about reputation - sometimes it's about internal matters - disappointment in self!   Or the realization of loss opportunity.  That's where most of us probably land.  As we grow older we look back on time spent or mispent...we think about what might have been accomplished or achieved if our choices were different.

Life is short.  Shorter for some than others.


Since, however, we are still here - still have time and health - what would you like to accomplish?  What do you want to NOT regret in a year or two or ten?