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 Front
porch view.
 How
many frogs???
 Mega
peaches!
Two of the ice castle, just before and after warm
weather (four days later!)
 
Moon shots! R1 is so good at this. Including this year's
ice castle!
  
Finally, and absolutely perfect winter day in western
NY. Cold as a witch's tit, but for picture taking it was
great! All with the new Sony R1.
 R1
can handle some pretty amazing contrast! Just what I
wanted.
 An
interesting stump of an ancient sugar-maple long since
dead.
  Wow.
I just love the lighting.
 This
looks weird because it was taken using just moonlight!
  Two
moonlight shots of Bristol Mountain! Too cool. The left
one is using ISO800, the right ISO160.
Well, My wife and I looked into this a bit more, and we
are now pretty sure these are dog tracks. There is no
leading toe, and there is some evidence of toenails in
the picture. While they looked very cat-like, they are
not. We discovered this pretty good site about the
differences:
http://www.bear-tracker.com/cougar.html
 Something
you NEVER see in WNY, a mountain lion track! I may have
gotten extremely lucky!!! Just down the road from my
house in East Bloomfield. Taken Sept 24, 2005
For those with spatial problems, I copy/pasted the
quarter across.
 Can't
see 'em here, but click to see super-imposed quarters
(About 0.9" a piece)
 Blue
asters.
Some typical goldenrod in our back field.
 Typical
rats nest of growth, nice fall setting in!
 Strange
caterpillars on a pignut tree. Hoping for an ID
sometime.
From a few days ago!
 Sunset
in our back yard.
 Luna
moth caterpillar.
Here are some recent ones I posted at the
Weather Underground:
 Sweet
rockets in the early morning.
 Our
pond garden lily putting on a show!
 Some
type of sparrows nest in the front field. Primary reason
why NOT to mow a field after the end of April or before
the end of August.
Some more ice shots
Hi all! Back again. Trudy and I have been quite busy
around the house remodeling, church, etc. Well, it
wouldn't be any fun if we didn't do a nutty project
every now and then. Last year I discovered a fairly
large spring that runs almost all the time except in the
summer. The best part of this spring is it is half way
up the hill on our property so I can use gravity to
power a water fountain at the bottom!
I purchased 300 ft of black plastic water line and
fittings, dug a hole where the spring is and sunk in a
bucket, set one end of the water line in the bucket, and
on the other I put in a plug with holes drilled
strategically in it. Then I got the sprinkler going, and
it sprays water a good 15 feet! To get the castle
growing faster, I set branches under the water flow. The
hose doesn't freeze due to the moving water and the fact
the spring water is about 45 degrees.
The pictures below represent between 5 to 7 days of
ice accumulation. Right now it is one giant chunk of ice
with about one foot of snow on top, so it doesn't look
so hot, but these pictures were taken before it snowed a
lot. It is about ten feet tall and 15 feet in diameter.
 Evening
blues
 Very
unusual weather this morning. A very low level freezing
fog made for one spectacular morning!
Jan 27 Blizzard
Well, not much to show, we didn't get the wind (The
only direction we don't get hammered by is from the
North, but we have had 16 inches from the storm. Not
bad!
 This
is the back, trust me there is a lot of snow.
 Pretty
snow shadows
 Inviting?
 How
we are plowing from now on, it's a blast!
 Old
Pic of Luke yawning. And
of a creek at Cummins Nature Center.
 Thorns Trail
Arch Backlit
Deeah.
Home for the holidays and I took a walk around the
house. These are some pics. A few of these make some
nice desktops, so feel free!
Our Christmas Tree (Second one in IR)
 Turkeys
in the front field! I finally got close.
 Deer
mouse scared out of a bird house.
Well, here is a little story: Two weeks ago I looked
up and saw this on the ceiling downstairs. Uh-oh.
I knew the shower stunk, it had a normal porcelain tub,
but the walls were standard plasterboard with linoleum
glued to them to keep the water out. While it probably
worked for years, all it took was the slightest leak to
get the plasterboard wet, and that what happened. I gave
the shower wall a tug and push, and the next thing you
know:
I have a little problem.
We try the other shower, but it is built the same
way! It leaks even worse. We are out of a way to get
clean other than the garden hose. Man that is cold. So
needless to say I had some incentive to get this job
done in record time.
 After
buying the materials that same day, I was at work
putting up cross-members for the concrete board. I may
not have needed it, but one you put that stuff in, it is
hard to fix mistakes. Have to do it right the first
time!
At the end of the second day...
 At
the end of the third day
 five
days later. Thank GOD! A shower never felt so good! (BTW
how the heck do they do those home makeovers in such a
short time!?!?!, I damned near killed myself to do
this!)
April 5, 2004
Well, Spring is here, can't you tell?
 800x600,
Snow in April. Only 20 degrees out!!!
 800x600,
moonset this morning.
April 3, 2004
It impolitely snowed and rained on us for the past
several days! Well, I got bored so I went outside
anyway. Here are some pics.
 Snowflake
below, a little more worked-over.
 Snowflake
suspended on a spider web. 800x600
 800x600,
April 3rd. WTF? And more for tomorrow and the next day?
Anyone hiring in South Carolina???
 800x600
screwy tree in the property behind our house.
Feb 25, 2004
 Another
mouse
bites the dust, though this time it was a fox in the
back field.
Feb 18, 2004
 800x600.
Sunset and snow squall on the 15th of Feb.
 1024x790.
Bristol snow makers or a fire? 10 sec exposure with
ISO200.
Feb 11, 2004
 600x800
Same sunset lighting up our Norway Maple.
 800x600
Slightly "curved" sunspots. Semi-abstracted.
 1024x768,
late evening and Venus. I like the dark mood in this.
Perhaps a desktop candidate?
 800x780,
Deer in the front field.
 800x691,
the infamous blue pinecones in the wood burning stove.
Jan 29, 2003. Nothing real pretty, but our plow guy's
truck broke down, and left us with a lovely driveway.
Good thing the wife and I both have 4WD.
 Looking
down. 4' drifts across (800x600)
 Looking
back up! Hope he gets the truck fixed before we have to
come home!
 After
driving Trudy to the bottom for her (man that was a rush
blowing through the drifts!) I had to hike back up
(yesterday morning).
Jan 25, 2004. Beautiful morning! Woke up to see there
was an animal party in the back yard and I missed it!
Nobody ever invites me...
 127K,
apparently we even provided the snacks with our nice perennials
and shrubs! These are all footprints from last night.
 144K
The problem with inviting the wrong guests to your
party... poor mouse.
 60K.
This was right in the back yard this morning. One less
for the trap!
 200K,
same image all fixed up!
 72K,
800x600 Sony's night vision works fairly well, too bad
my hand isn't very steady! There were 17 deer total in
our front field, but they were too far apart to capture.
 100K,
1024x768. Driveway is nice and clear.
 Game
trail. 1024x768, 115K. This is one of my trails I cut in
the woods, and after one day of snow, this is the trail
the deer have left! If I hear one DEC person say the deer
population is low, I swear I will smack him/her! We see
too many of the things eating our gardens and ruining the
trees that I am ready to take up hunting!
 Our
finished dining room, 800x600, 70K.
 800x600,
interesting morning. A little ice on everything. Too
darned cold to play for long.
Jan 10, 2003
 1024x768
84kB. -10 degrees out this morning, and it looks it! I
likes this picture because it has the artic sky.
 132kB,
moon over chestnut tree.
 150kB,
Cold nest! (branch images don't compress much, sorry!)
 248kB,
same compression as above, but see the size diff? Lots
of branches again.
 256kB,
cold out there!
 417kB,
new front window panoramic! This was quite difficult as
the dynamic range was well beyond the camera's ability.
It turned out quite nice however!
Jan 6, 2003
Darned cold morning with a little ice left over from
yesterday's crap weather. This made for some nice
picture taking in the front yard though!
 89kB,
icy start 1
 202kB
(a lot of detail, sorry!), icy start 2
Note the following pictures were taken over the
previous days, just been too busy installing a ceiling
fan (drilled wires and all!) to post these before.
 118kB,
a moldy stump.
 77kB
(640x480), big old maple tree.
 100kB,
feather in the leaves.
 95kb
(800x600), after the party.
Dec 28, 2003
 196kB.
Got to love the sky! This is our house. High Res:  1.9MB
Christmas 2003
Merry Christmas! Got some neat pictures to share.
This one in particular I am fond of, a 20+ second
exposure of Bristol Mountain Ski Resort which is just to
our south had a localized snow squall sitting over it.
 280kB.
Any smaller and the fine gradient goes to pot. Sorry
dad! (1024x768)
 66kB,
similar shot using Photoshop. Um, Ok I can compress a
bit more without many artifacts. (66kB)
 97kB,
Our LED Christmas lights in the Chinese Chestnut Tree.
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