Not as in “game bird.” As in: I am in a particularly bad mood. I bought the new iPhoto (that would be 11) because it had this swell flickr uploader. But they’ve changed the inter-play between the iPhoto display and Photoshop, and it’s a mess. Now I have to figure out how to back out of the dang thing. DO NOT BUY IT WITHOUT READING THE APPLE FORUMS FIRST.
Last week, I spent days fixing this blog code for Firefox (which was kind of fun) and trying to figure out what was wrong with my Mozy backup (which was not fun). Now Mozy seems fritzy again – and remind me why I love technology?
On top of that, I saw some very cool things last week at the barn – and had no camera. And got all hot-to-trot about the possibilities of using my camera phone. Now, I am looking at the shots and am VERY disappointed. Trot cancelled. Phone in serious disregard.
This, then, is offically One of Those Days.
This, I did take with the phone. Heaven knows why I had it with me. When I caught sight of this, I thought the steeple was lit up, too – which was very cool. But by the time I’d stopped and trotted (again – so much dang trotting) across the street, they had turned it off. (joke, the steeple does not light up by itself – therefore, read: the clouds shrouded the cold sun.)
But I thought it was pretty anyway. This is what we look like in winter. I love this steeple. But I like it better when it’s glowing.
Phone shot: there were these two leaves lying atop the dying snow. This is when the sun wasn’t cold. And the thing is, the heat in the leaves was melting the snow just under and around them, so they were neatly embedded. It looked very cool. But you can’t really see the effect because A) I shot it badly and B) you can’t focus a camera phone, or fix the exposure, which I probably wouldn’t have thought to do even with the camera.
You can kind of tell by looking at the edges what I was seeing. This shot is even worse because all those megapixals still don’t deliver detail. I got as close as I thought was reasonable. Evidently, I wasn’t. Reasonable.
And here was morning at the barn. Which shows that you can easily overdrive your lens when it’s about a quarter of an inch in diameter. Still, you can see why I wanted to shoot it. We do grow nice skies around here, even in winter.
And on top of all that, I just opened the new package of fancy dancy smoked Gouda cheese, only to find ( that would be, by tasting it) that it had evidently been cured by some guy who sat in the shed with it, chain smoking.
So Wabi – this is my contribution to Farm Friday, even though it isn’t Friday and I’m freezing, and I don’t have a church in the middle of my one acre farm. Now, I’m going to put on twelve layers and go out to feed the horses, and you can BET I’m just gonna keep muttering the whole dang way.
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