January, 2016

I needed to spend a few dollars to fill out an order for free shipping recently, so I bought myself ice molds that make huge sphere and cube ice cubes.  Glass for scale.

I went outside and tested my new lens today, on the first decent-weather weekend day we’ve had since I bought it. It’s not a macro lens, but it has pretty decent close-focus ability.

Evidently my phone took a bunch of pictures of the inside of my pocket today. Here is one.

In this photo taken just after sunrise we have: reddish light from the sun, blue light from the garage weather beacon, yellowish incandescent light from the neighbor’s window, and white-ish light from the moon.

We took the kitties to the vet today. I think Gandalf has forgiven me.

Yup, that’s me… cutting open a bag of coffee in the WRONG DIRECTION!

Gandalf is helping me read my new cookbook.

Our DVD copy of our 2001 Africa video was damaged (by heat, probably while in storage when the Southboro house was on the market), and we had no way to play our Digital8 master tape. But I found a company right here in Newton to do the transfer, and the result looks good.

Ferrous has discovered that the heat comes up from between the wall and the top of the couch this time of year.

For our upcoming Galapagos trip, I have purchased a new wildlife lens that’s more suitable for the conditions I expect to encounter.  The lens on the left is my existing wildlife lens, an 80-400mm zoom; the new one on the right is a 70-200mm f/4, and is better & more modern in every way except long-end magnification, which I don’t expect to need on this trip. Probably most crucially, the new one weighs a full pound less than the old. A pound may not sound like a lot, but it’s definitely noticeable when you’ve been wearing it on your back all day.