Sitting round the campfire on Guy Fawkes Night 2011
It’s November 5th and this year we left the Guy at home.
Guy Fawkes Night 2010 at Berry Bend
We took the Kayaks out on the lake today, but it was too windy to go far. We saw a flock, or whatever the collective noun is, of white pelicans. After being driven off the the lake by the wind I went on a walk around the closed off areas of the campsite, and ended up walking back along the lakeside. When I got back to our campsite Ginger fancied a walk, so we re-traced part or my walk, which was very fortuitous as we were able to see a fantastic sunset over the lake.
The wind continued to blow hard and unpredictably most of the evening, making sitting round the campfire hazardous at times, but the sparks made up for the absence of fireworks.
White Pelicans on Harry S Truman Lake at Bucksaw
Camping at Bucksaw Campground, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
Harry S Truman Lake at Bucksaw
Dead tree, Bucksaw, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
Sunset at Bucksaw, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
Campfire sparks on Guy Fawkes night
Bucksaw campsite in the moonlight
05 November 2011 | 365:309 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Double take
I thought I’d cleaned the mirror before taking this picture.
Obviously not. Ginger’s not been feeling too well, so I let her sleep and picked up the big kids from school.
And I took one with the focus reversed on the mirrors
21 September 2011 | 365:264 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
We had a bolt stuck in our tyre
So this afternoon I got it fixed.
19 September 2011 | 365:262 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Trying to get out of the parking lot on the way home from the symphony
It took nearly an hour to complete a ten minute journey.
Ginger took Lanie down to church to help with the ‘Cider Days’ parking lot fund raiser, and Katie clothes shopping in a hunt for some classic clothes in the down town flea markets. The fund raiser got washed out, but the shopping trip was a success, and I was treated to an impromptu fashion show when they got back.
John and Marsha are on vacation and very kindly gave us their tickets to this evening’s symphony concert, so we had a Beethoven treat night. I had planned on taking today’s picture either just outside or inside the auditorium, but the light was horrid inside and it was frightfully busy outside.
After the concert we got stuck in traffic trying to exit the parking lot – apparently a rodeo just down the road had finished at the same time, so we spent 50 minutes just sitting in line. I decided to take a safety shot while we were waiting.
We were a bit concerned about our back tyre which currently has a number plate screw, complete with washer, buried in it. It’s been raining heavily all day, and I didn’t fancy changing a tyre in the wet, so we left it in place. It can stay there, probably until after the school run Monday morning if I can get away with it.
17 September 2011 | 365:260 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Phew! What a scorcher
And other tabloid headlines.
By the way, little did I know how much hotter it was going to get over the next few days…
27 July 2011 | 365:208 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Gary checking the tyre pressure
I had a busy day planned,
Taking today’s shot took much longer than I anticipated because the Nikon gave up focusing again. I got round the problem by switching over to manual focus, totally un-focusing it, and then putting it back to autofocus. This worked, but of course I didn’t find out it wasn’t focusing until after I took my first set of shots, had removed the camera from the scene and chimped the pictures.
I decided to take a ‘honest shot’ with the remote in full view as an alternative shot for today, but I decided to go with that picture for today instead.
The rest of the afternoon was spent studying, and at five I went off to class. I got in shortly after nine, having stopped on the way home to fill up with exorbitantly priced fuel ($3.23 per US gallon). We watched a movie – The other Man. It’s now horribly late and I ought to stop typing and go to bed.
Today’s alternate shot
Gary looking a bit fed up with his 'unable to focus without help' camera
17 March 2011 | 365:076 | 365 Days blog | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
