20080710 Sunset

Sunset 7/10 was beautiful


Sunset, to the West and South


Marred by a leftover Millfoil Removal Pontoon
Boat, moored just in view off the end of the dock.
A lovely reminder of the THREE that are right
out there all day long with their air pumps
and their salvage pumps throbbing away hour
after hour.

20080710 More Skaneateles

Chillin', quite literally


We cool


Dinnertime. Ok, dessert time.


Da moon

20080710 More Skaneateles

Sunset 7/9/08


Looking North toward the town of
Skaneateles, sunset 7/9/08


After a couple of sweltering days, 7/10
dawns WINDY and very clear and cool.


7/10. Afternoon. Still Windy.

20080709 More Skaneateles

20080708 Skaneateles

The "Mail Boat" delivers doughnuts!
(If you jump through hoops to make it happen)


The owner of our rental has a guard goose.
That's Rick and Abagail.

20080706 Skaneateles Sunset

With gull.

20080706 Skaneateles

The Judge

20080706 Skaneateles

Something's wrong with this boat!

20080706 Skaneateles

20080705 Sunset Skaneateles w Moon

20080705 Sunset Skaneateles

20080630 An ex-stump

Once upon a time, there was a lovely flowering
crabapple tree in the front yard. But it died.



So I had to dig it up. I dug a hole.



A large hole. For comparison, here I am standing
in said aforementioned hole.
The hole is big.
The hole is deep.
The back is aching.


Ok, so I was on my knees in the hole, but to
give you some idea of the size of the stump,
it measures approximately 37 feet in diameter,
is 156 cubits long, and it weighs more than
an elephant.

A very large elephant.

20080629 Birthday Birhouse

Assembled and put up. You can just see her sister's
hung on the other side of the tree

20080628 Depth of Field stacking

One of the things about the CHDK script for the Canon Powershot is bracketing. Set macro mode, change focus by 30mm each shot, set to continuous shooting, then use the GNU-freeware COMBINEZM to stack several photos focused at different places together into one photo focused from near to far.




The result:

20080623 Water Splats