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Super Grandmothers
You know how at the end of a grueling race, like a marathon, when the finish line is just in sight, but seems so far away and things begin to fall apart? You end up limping towards the end. People are cheering you on, but you cannot hear them, because you are collapsing on the course.
That is us tonight. It has been a long week. Saturday night was a disaster. Wyatt went to bed just fine, but Declan disintegrated. He never made it into the tub. Both Anne and Kim corralled him in the bathroom and blocked the door so that he couldn’t go naked and screaming through the rest of the house. He had missed his nap. Anne eventually soothed him by playing Micky Mouse cartoons for him on her phone.
Tonight is our last night here in Boston. Maren, with her corporate flight schedule is due to arrive on time tonight, but David flying on his own dime isn’t due to land until 5AM tomorrow. Just in time for the boys to awaken to greet him after he gets home.
Crinoid Fossil
Winter is Coming
Hard freezes expected tonight and tomorrow night. When we left St. Louis last week it was a hundred there. It’s cooler now, but this summer there were 200 days from the first ninety degree day to the last. This hot weather makes us climate refugees. Today, I was ordered from sunny LA to harvest the garden and drain the water barrel and batten down the hatches. Mission accomplished! Three grandparents versus two grandchildren and we seem to be holding our own.
Declan had mini all stars today and it was a hoot. Today’s sport was football, American style. The best part was when they played flag football. There were only four kids in the class, three boys and one girl and the girl was the best player. When she ran away and all the boys chased her.
Wise Tree Toad
Focus Stacking
Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique that combines multiple photographs taken at different focus distances to create a single composite image with an extended, front-to-back depth of field. The photographer takes a series of photos (often called a focus bracket) of the same scene using a tripod. In each frame, the point of focus is shifted incrementally—starting from the closest foreground element and moving progressively toward the background. The above photo is sort of a goal with this technique. It is a Nikon award winning macro picture. Below, find my initial foray, an obliquely shot one euro coin. Not bad for a first attempt, if it do say so myself.
In other news, Maren’s mother Kim is here now. The calvary has arrived! Were saved.