Photo of the day

I headed out to the top of the mountain today to try out my Christmas present – snow shoes. At the tram boarding I shot this photo which missed the top speed that I saw, 55mph. I looked up the wind-chill for those figures and it was 4 degrees F. I slogged through the snow […]

View full post »

What a weekend. I think I took more photos of more unusual things than I’ve ever done on a single weekend before. A cold front brought tons of rain and snow for the high elevations. The full sized image is here.  (After the image loads in the browser window, click on it for a full […]

View full post »

Hiked to the summit again today – my sixth time for the month. Nature does small things so well…. and then finishes off the day with the grand and the majestic.    

View full post »

Back on the trail again – second day in a row. Today was also the second day that I got to try out the discovery about my manual focus macro setting on my “marginal” Olympus 5060 zoom. Seems to me that what was once marginal, is now full functional, at least in the manual mode. It’s […]

View full post »

Actually, the photos really make up a “report” on the conditions that I ran into while hiking on Saturday. There were no flowers, no real high drama, and other than the fact that one had to be continually cautious for the last several miles, it was a great day for a hike. The full story […]

View full post »