Limu The Blue Turtle and His Hawaiian Garden is a book my inlaws brought back from Hawaii while they were there on vacation. I guess that this book is part of a series. However, this is the first one we have. The first thing that grabs your attention with this book is the beautiful illustrations. I even like to look through this book to look at the pictures! As you can tell from the title of this book, this book doesn’t take place in any Barbados villa rentals. Instead, it is in the ocean by the underwater gardens.  Limu is a blue turtle who is given a gift from his friend Jonah (a whale).  This gift, a seaweed tree, started creating problems, so he went to the Faraway-Forest where it came from.  On the way, he met Coral, a pink turtle.  The story is about how they get the seaweed tree back home and fixed their garden.  It’s a cute story with great pictures and a winner in this house!

This Sony DSLR camera is my first “real” camera. This is definitely not a point and shoot camera. However, this another camera that you don’t need to read the book to figure out how to use it.  You also don’t have to contact a few mortgage lenders to be able to afford it either!  You will find that the majority of my pictures on Lisa Cooking are done with this camera.  My inlaws also took it to Hawaii with them on their vacation.

Some of the highlights of this camera include 10.2-megapixel Super HAD CCD which gives you clear, sharp photos, Live Preview of your subject, Tiltable 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD Plus screen, Continuous shooting while viewing, Smart teleconverter 2x zoom, Expanded ISO sensitivity, Super SteadyShot in-camera image stabilization, Bionz image processor, 1200-zone evaluative metering, Dynamic Range Optimizer, Anti-Dust technology, Auto Pop-up flash, Eye-Start autofocus system, 9-point center cross AF sensor, Scene Selection modes: Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Sports, Sunset and Night Portrait/Night View situations, Creative Style Settings including Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Landscape, Night View, Sunset, B&W and Adobe RGB modes, Index and Slide Show Display, High-resolution thumbnails for PhotoTV HD viewing, Function Guide Display On-screen menus are intuitive and easy to use, Stamina Battery Power, and High-capacity media options.

In plain English, you’ll take some of the best pictures of your life with this DSLR camera.  The picture to the left here was taken the same day I got the camera.  If I could figure out how to use the DSLR in one day, anybody can use this camera!