Tag: back yard wilderness

The Woods This Morning

Here are some pictures of fallen trees and rocks and stuff in the woods behind the house.

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Wasn’t that fun? Everything was in Manual Mode, but really… it was sort of faux shutter priority. I set the aperture as open as it gets for the lens and just adjusted the shutter speed to get the light meter in the camera to the right setting. I should have used the light meter app on my phone to give me suggestions rather than just doing it myself. I don’t know what I am doing, but I have to assume the light meter does. So there.

Now I have to figure out what the next pointless photography project will be. Also. What does Exposure Compensation do, and how do I use it? That’s my YouTube tutorial project for tonight.

Damn You, Rodents!

I’m covering a day shift at my mother’s house today as I slowly get back into the swing of that thing. Today is trash day, so I put the barrels out on the street last night so that I wouldn’t have to worry about them this morning.

The squirrels get into my trash barrels all the time, but they have never staged an attack while they were on the street. Until today that is.

The damage wasn’t bad, but one barrel was open and there was a small amount of trash scattered across the front yard. When I went outside to fix things I found two squirrels, three chipmunks and a handful of various birds checking out the wreckage.

Oh good, now the squirrels are cluing the rest of the wild kingdom into the buffet that is the crap we throw away. It’s like some perverse Disney cartoon.

Damn you, rodents. Fuck you, squirrels. We have foxes, bobcats, hawks, owls, and on one occasion a coyote living in the woods behind our house. None of those super predators eat squirrels? Come on, assholes. Control our rodent infestation!