Sunday, February 10, 2013

ANOTHER COLD DESERT DAY, BUT WE MANAGED A COUPLE OUTINGS

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No snow on the ground this morning but still cold at 33F when I woke up around 4.  A canopy of stars told me it was going to be a sunny start to the morning, & with no wind, we had a good chance at a better weather day.  But, it didn’t last……….

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AUNT JEAN CHECKS OUT THE MORNINGS BLOG, KELLY WORKS ON A LOAD OF TOAST & PHEEBS IS UPSIDE DOWN ON THE FLOOR

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AND JEAN TAKES A PHOTO OF KELLY GIVING AL A MUCH NEEDED HAIRCUT

With today’s HD technology & high resolution TV’s, I really enjoy watching those full featured animation movies.  Polar Express & Hugo come to mind.  Pheebs & I watched ‘Despicable Me’ Saturday night & enjoyed it.  Truly amazing what animators & the wonderful world if digital imagination can do these days. Takes me back to the time in the 50’s when my Mother bought a brand spanking new 24 inch Westinghouse B&W television.  It was cutting age stuff at the time & as a kid, I felt I was standing at the edge of the Universe.  Been awhile since those days, but sometimes while watching these animations in HD, I am almost back, standing at the edge there again.

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A BRISK DESERT WALK UNDER SUNNY BUT COLD SKIES AS A HAWK & BUNNY KEEP A WARY EYE ON US

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RV AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES WITH JULIE & TOM located in Gainesville Florida joined us today as our later Blog Followers.  Say, Aunt Jean forgot to bring some of that warmer Florida weather with her….d’ya suppose you could send us some over.  Thanks for dropping by folks:))

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PHEEBS KEEPS A CLOSE EYE ON PASSING BUNNY OUTSIDE THE SUNSEEKER

Karen & Steve from THIS COUNTRY IS OUR BIG BACKYARD have been working hard these past bunch of months on renovating an older house they recently purchased.  Two very talented people here & it’s always a learning experience to see what great alterations they are making to either their Safari Motorhome or recently acquired house.

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ALWAYS INTERESTING THINGS TO SEE IN THE DESERT 

We did manage a sunny morning walk in the desert but an icy wind later picked UP & kept us indoors except for an hours Jeep ride around the neighborhood.  Showed Aunt Jean 2 cemeteries at the end of Ghost Town Road & did manage a short walk in the old Pioneer one.  Toured around Congress & then on down to North Ranch for a drive through.  Went by MIKE'S PLACE expecting to maybe see him outside in his Bermuda shorts, but with the colder temperatures I figured he was probably staying inside pretty close to his gun powder today.

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A SHORT WALK IN THE OLD CONGRESS PIONEER CEMETERY

Rest of the day was uneventful.   Reading Cheyrl Ann’s post from DEEP CANYON a few days ago I left her a comment & decided to post that comment here as well…….'Editing photos to me is as much fun as taking the actual photograph itself.  Lighting conditions are not always the best in the field & composition can be a challenge in many locations, but getting those same photos into a editing program is like a second chance to photograph the same subject all over again.  Lighting problems can be corrected, composition re-positioned etc.  Inaccurate colors can be dealt with & contrast problems solved. Half the fun of photography is in the photo editing process & at the end of each day I always enjoy uploading my photos into my PICASA photo editing program to see what little treasures I may have captured.  And, it's always a challenge, no matter what the photo problem is,  to solve & trouble shoot each & every photo to have the photos come out as natural looking as possible.  Some days, using all 4 cameras, I may very well have over a hundred photos to edit & organize.  But, like so many hobbies, the key is loving what you are doing....and that is the key’:))

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LOOK JEAN, A FLYING CHICKEN………….OMG!!

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AND, HERE’S THE LADIES WATCHING DOWNTON ABBY SUNDAY NIGHT

GROANER’S CORNER:(( In Africa, some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries.  Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression.....
In America we call it golf.

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- Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- "If having a soul means being able to feel
love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals
are better off than a lot of humans."
(James Herriot)
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails -William Arthur Ward
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
- It is not so much having nothing to do as it is not having the interest to do something....AL.

10 comments:

  1. Glad Aunt Jean is enjoying Arizona, hopefully it will warm up soon!

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  2. I LOVE her cheerful house coat!
    Hope the weather will turn warmer soon.
    LOL as I read groaner's corner today. Saw myself as I started out golfing here in the desert a few weeks ago. :))

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  3. I see your using the blue flame heater hooked up to the small propane pig... I was doing that with ours back in Kansas where it was seriously cold... Beats the heck out of paying for electricity...

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  4. It was a cold day here, too, in our desert on Saturday, but yesterday was a tad warmer. I may drive up to Anza to see the horses today, as I doubt there is still ice on the road, if I wait until noon... Thanks for the mention! I'm learning to edit, edit, edit my photos!
    ~~Cheryl Ann~~

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  5. Sorry I missed you all. After church ms Pat teaches line dancing at the club house and ms Mega2 and I just lay low,,,with her usually asleep on my lap.... I am all loaded up, so I know I wasn't doing that...
    Hope Auntie is enjoying seeing you guys, I'm sure she isn't enjoying this weather much....hopefully it will get better soon, as we have friends coming in on Wed....They came from Florida too!!

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  6. I went for a 2 hour walk yesterday. Saw a hummingbird, a hawk, two TURKEY VULTURES, 2 roadrunners, and some Cedar waxwings. Oh, and plenty of robins and rabbits!

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  7. The cold weather is not a lot of fun, but should soon get warmer for you.

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  8. Hope the weather warms up soon. We have cable here in TX (no TV in MT) and we also watched Downton Abbey last night--interesting.

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  9. So glad Aunt Jean could visit you ...She is quite a gal. Hopefully the weather will warm up for more sightseeing..

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  10. But did you see the forecast for later this week? I can hardly wait. I need my friend to read your post about editing pictures. She thinks that you shouldn't mess with them because that is how they should look. I tried to tell her that the camera just couldn't capture that beauty and I wanted them to look like I really saw it. But once again, you say it so much better than I do. Nice to see Aunt Jean feeling good enough to take the walks among the rain drops.

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