Musings

I played with the iPhone camera again. This is the result of a spotlight-portrait combo…with a little tweaking. It’s not evident, but this shot was taken in broad daylight.

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Sunrise-orange across the Grand Marais breakwater and Lake Superior.

Fall color along US2, southern side of the peninsula, out from under the cloud bank.

Lake Michigan at Brevort, still in the Upper Peninsula. Never come down to the lake here before.

Lake Michigan at Cross Village, in the northern Lower Peninsula. More wind than the north shore at Brevet.

Tunnel of Trees, as the state highway going south of Cross Village is known. The right-of-way is narrower than standard, not two lanes wide, and thus no center line. We followed about ten fancy, late-model Corvettes who were traveling together. We left the park at Cross Village right behind them, and followed them into Harbor Springs. [If you’re looking at a map, this’ll make sense.] We got a chance to analyze tight GM cornering from the rear.

One more shot of the fall color in the northwestern Lower Peninsula, greener than in the UP.

That visually sums the prettiest pretties of the day.

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I walked in the morning, in the old world.

Then, my new iPhone arrived, and I began the transfer. I hit snags, and The Guru stepped in and did the magic with Mint, etc., and it finished.

The new phone means a major camera upgrade. See! Look at that vegetation variation detail!

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I hadn’t seen this update before. I love the steps-then-dance addition to the hopscotch grid.

I also updated my phone and watch. Now, two of the most common things I do on my watch each take an additional step/tap. You can imagine how thrilled I am (NOT).

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I took this in portrait mode, then cranked the saturation for this post. That’s my mood after three loads of laundry (and more to go). Still, I had a fabulous day.

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As the daylight increased and night faded, I looked out the kitchen window and saw these parallel contrails, like etchings against the sky.

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I heard/read various sorts of news today, including multiple examples of the power of MaNachur, and also of spineless federal politicians spending OUR money frivolously.

In our living room, we talked more about the annual September Apple presentation. This is an Apple promo photo of the two sizes of the newly announced iPhone 15 Pro Max (larger on the left) and 15 Pro. Our phones are still fine, but venerable at four years old. I am most attracted to the Pro Max, as the Apple lens developers have managed to create, in that teensy thickness of a smart phone, a lens that will telephoto to 120 mm, at ƒ/2.8 aperture. Wow. [No comment on buying (lusting after? hah, I exaggerate) a product called a phone while valuing more an additional capability called a camera. 😎]

With the phones and with new models of watch/fitness devices, I heard reapeated mention of nits. To me nits are louse eggs, so that threw me until I figured out that nits are also brightness units, although my APPLE DICTIONARY does not include that definition. 🤣 So, the new phones have 2000 nits peak brightness (outdoors). Woohoo.

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I fought my phone-cam and the cam won. I mean that there was golden oblique light on this busy bulletin board and I thought I’d capture an indefinite yet moving mosaic of memories and souvenirs. Didn’t work. The phone-cam’s algorithms bumped up the light levels and perceptibility, and all the emotional undercurrents…poof, disappeared.

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Drive dozens of miles on an Interstate in the USofA, and you will see odd vehicles and trailered items. I think we saw a still once. Today it was a tank. Not a Cadillac!

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Golden-lit potentilla.

My morning fun…exercising The Beast.

The Beast…waiting.

Last summer, we bought The Beast to frustrate, and hopefully to ultimately remove, an invasive grass that has very strong stems and out-competes the “normal” pasture grasses. Of course, this is no longer a pasture, nor doesn’t anyone hay it, or otherwise manage it for agriculture. Just. Too. Much. Effort. [Yes, more than operating the beast on hot, humid, hazy days. Long story.]

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