Goose Creek Rambler
Four years ago yesterday, I went digital. The Nikon Coolpix arrived on April 20, 2000. I'll never forget how excited and how utterly clumsy I was with the new camera. Yesterday, April 20, 2004, the Nikon D70 arrived. Excited. Utterly clumsy. At not-quite-the-bottom of the learning curve. I'll have some first impressions for both of you camera buffs out there, soon.
Yesterday, got word that, for pretty certain, I'll have a little sidebar and several photographs in (I think) the July-August issue of Blue Ridge Country Magazine. With a little help from my friends. Doug loaned me the camera (close! I coulda done the job with my own, just a few days later). My friend, Elizabeth Hunter, offered me the chance to help her with a few pictures that were a lot closer to me than to her; and the sidebar to her long article on the Mabrys came from what I learned from my new acquaintance, Mr. Harris in Meadows of Dan. The people are the best part of it. Thanks, all.
Brrr! Well, it worked. I went around after Ann was in bed and pulled down some windows from the top. It's 65 degrees inside now--a little cool without the fire in the stove. But it will feel good later today, when it is too warm outside in the sun, to step into the coolness purchased with only the energy it took to think ahead. This little ritual of thermoregulation is especially important from the first near-hot days like these until late May when the five maples have put on leaves. The house faces south, which is good. But without the shade, our hottest days of the season seem to be in mid-May before we are sheltered from the full glare of the sun.
Yesterday I said yes. I'll be begging help from any out there with experience in putting together essay contests. Begging. You were warned.
Once again, we have aliens landing on Goose Creek tonight. Good and welcomed aliens, to be sure. But you know the routine. And the Troop is grumbling just a wee bit because the new camera battery wasn't charged and ready to operate until after 5:00 yesterday, so play with it was limited. I anticipate at least once, making a break for open country, AWOL with 512MB of film!