Road Trip

Get ready for lots of pictures of gas stations today. We’re going on a day trip up to the mountains to look at colors on the trees. It’s probably past peak where we’re heading but that’s okay. It’s the journey, not the destination.

Safe travels, internets.

Leaf Peeping

The weather forecast was kinda crummy today but the reality isn’t too terrible. Jen and I are going to give leaf peeping a shot. That will let us go out in the world while still being paranoid about spreading any last vestiges of the Covid… even though that is literally not a thing.

I have my Nikons in the camera bag. The Z5 mirrorless with the new 28mm lens, and the FG-20 film camera with the 35-70mm zoom. I even turned on the SnapBridge app connection so that I can possibly post Z5 shots to the blog while we’re out. There was only one shot on the memory card and it crossed to my phone and it’s Robin, of course.

Lets see how it goes today. Fingers crossed for some cool views and decent shots.

Digital Blurry Background

Remember that blurry background pic I posted yesterday or the day before? That was taken on film. I went outside today and filled up the bird feeders and took the opportunity to take a similar picture with digital.

I like blurry backgrounds. Deal with it.

Also, there is still a lot of green on those trees. There is also a lot of brown and dead and awful.

Also, BIRD!

Back Yard Foliage Update

We’re still barely underway here in the Merrimack Valley, but there is some color. Not good color, really, but it’s something.

DSCN2537 — This tree is almost done, but the tree next to it hasn’t even started turning yet.

DSCN2539 — This guy has made good progress since the last time I looked, but still has a long way to go.

I kinda like the reds here, but most of it is just going to be the same old blah yellow. Blah. 41/365

Monster!

I had to step outside today to take out the trash and I saw this hideous monster. How can we live in a world where an evil like this exists?

Also, you’d think that living in the woods in New England would mean we’d have some cool fall colors. Not really. In our back yard the leaves go from green to ugly yellow to dead on the ground. Oh well.