Saturday, 8 August 2026
Cat-rise. 6:15am.
Display of unusable glass-blowing forms, Quechee.
Dam and covered bridge adjacent to glass-blowing operation (in old mill building, I assume), Ottauquechee River, Quechee.
1802 turnpike end marker, Woodstock.
Saturday, 25 July 2026
We arrived at the cottage just before 5pm, after a straightforward drive up from Ohio, and only a dozen-minute delay at the bridge-crossing toll booth.
One of the crucial cottage-opening activities is to air out the place, which is easier upstairs with a fan. The big bedroom has a pair of under-eaves windows facing south, one shown here, and a pair of higher windows in the end wall. It’s not an optimal flow-through situation, but a fan does help to make it work.
My apps indicate it may get down to 62°F overnight, which sounds impossible to Atlanta-in-July-oriented ears. Hallelujah.
Quick note: smoke-at-ground-level predictions on airquality.weather.gov suggest we’re fine for a while here…yay.
Friday, 24 July 2026
The inception: a loud pop (blown tire).
The outcome: just fine.
It was okay because we weren’t on I-75, there was a wide shoulder, and it was a rear tire (so it didn’t affect steering).
The big plus was a tire place (actually several, but we only needed one) a mere three miles away.
And we needed new tires, anyway.
They promised they’d finish changing, balancing, etc. the four new tires by 3:30. In fact, we were on the road again just before 3pm.
Also, we’re on track to get to our previously planned hotel stop at a reasonable hour.
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Lighthouse sequence. The structure is on the end of a breakwater at the mouth of the Manistique River. It is 35 ft tall and made of steel. It was first lit in 1916, and automated in 1969. Safety first.
Wide angle.
Wide, with red osier dogwood in foreground.
Not so wide, with sign and seagull (or tern or whatever it is; we always called them gulls).
We encountered wet roads, then rain, on our return drive; however, no rain fell here at the cottage, sadly.
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Watched Monday’s keynote for WWDC with one ear (as in partly listened, and minimally watched), and a couple of sections featured the phrase “natural language.” As in, talk to this new enhanced Siri or just the phone as if it were a person. The phrase sounds faintly spooky to me. Languages other than English coming soon.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
I never tried a photo on my watch before; I knew it was possible, but I didn’t think it was…me. However, peony-watch is a fine look.
Wednesday, 1 April 2026
Overall, I think highly of the data my AppleWatch reports. Truth: it does a poor job of counting flights of stairs, always low. However, that count is not a meaningful statistic for me, so I remain happy with ole WanderWatch.
Thursday, 5 March 2026
It’s been a while since I tried this, and I learned that iPhone lenses are still not the best for shots through this kaleidoscope. I’ve lost track of the other marbles for this one, and I recall that their colors are prettier.
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Here’s the history of this image. I stepped out for the post-sunset glow, and the image I preferred was wide-angle. In the app, I reduced the keystoning inherent in wide-angle images with my phone’s lens. [I get tired of looking at keystoned images.] Somehow, it looks…altered, funny, not quite real. With or without keystoning, aren’t both images “real?”
Monday, 26 January 2026
I wanted to look at the snowflake emoji close up. While researching, I found out this is the Apple snowflake, not The Other Kind. I like that it’s off axis and not exactly aligned up-down, and side-to-side.
A long time ago, I looked at a few snowflakes close up. This is not what they looked like…not delicate enough. But it works great displayed in my texting app.