I had my first BLT of the 2011 BLT season. Yes, I view the eating of BLTs as a seasonal thing. Why is that you may ask?
Brandywine Tomato Slices Fresh from ourGarden
You see, I only eat BLTs with tomatoes fresh from the garden. From now until October The Wisconsin Snow Bunny and myself will only be eating garden fresh tomatoes.
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Germinating Lupine
What this image is, is a lupine flower just after it germinated and is one of a set of three seeds that germinated (out of about eight total). The photo was taken using my 50 mm macro lens and today I do not have the exif data immediately handy (DigiKam is having problems) so I can not tell you about the exposure. However, the photo is about as close as I can get, the full sized full resolution photo is incredibly detailed and he hairs (in the center of the sprout) you can barely see are very large, in focus and reveal, incredible detail. However, I do not want to give you too much, but look below for a snippet of those lupine hairs! The other piece of legacy equipment was my Benbo tripod and I used the delay timer to trip the exposure.
The Fine Hairs of the Lupine
Why the RIP?
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Don Juan
I have scaled down the photograph quite a bit and when the photograph is at full size the amount of detail visible in the rose is incredible. However, you need to settle for a 300×278 watermarked photograph. It isn’t the greatest photo, the bloom is the first one coming out a less than ideal growing conditions and is not so much a thought out composition, but just a shot taking the new tool for its first spin.
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Here is the map of my 2011 biking season high (in terms of miles spun):
Hmmm, for some reason (I would call it a software defect), Google wants to show the area north of my ride rather instead of my ride. Drag the map upwards to bring my ride into view.. Note to Google QA team: time to file a defect!
The hard numbers are :
This top speed is entirely consistent with maximum speeds I get on my bicycle, seem rather slow in comparison to the near 60 mph I get on my K2 planks, no?
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Here you see my first composed video. I have posted video here before, most of it videos from YouTube created by others or my raw camera video. However, here you see video composed of scenes I recorded and then put together and edited!
The music however comes from the Grateful Dead’s July 17, 1989 Alpine Valley (which doubles as a ski resort during the winter) appearance and is the opening song from that show Let the Good Times Rolls, a show which I WAS AT!
The first scene is a bike ride I took on the nearby Wiouwash trail, cold day and I caught a long nagging and nasty cold from it. The second scene recorded in my brother’s car on Vilas County HWY A on our way to Ski Brule. The third scene is me skiing down Ski Brule’s Big Bear and this is my second ski film attempt, this time I hang the camera from my neck and tuck it into my jacket. I had to tuck it in because untucked the weight of the lens causes the camera to point at my ski tips and that makes for rather uniteresting video — which happens in the second ski scene skiing down Brule’s Otterslide.
The last scene is our fireplace at home and the credits. The snippet is only about 10 seconds or so of video and I repeat it a number of times.
Nothing spectacular, just something else for me to learn and try to apply to promote the efforts of myself and others!
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Here is my first bikeride of this season.
Not so flashy as my ski tracks, but there is some up and down on this trip. It was a nice sunny day today. I went to town bought some bike-clothing to keep me warm on the ride. I did not go for the Wiouwash Trail as it is still snow covered from our last blizzard, I am hoping it will be clear soon.
Not bad in any way shape or form for my first ride, sunny, cool but not too much so, and the wind was not all that bad but definitely felt on the return leg. The drivers on this stretch of road were courteous and gave me lots of room.
The coolest thing about this ride was seeing a muskrat in a ditch. I saw it out of my periphery and then turned my head and I heard the telltale sound of a rapid dive.
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Went well.
Last Saturday we had some guests both of whom are avid golfers. So I broke out my golf bag and dropped a couple of balls in the backyard. I got my pitching wedge out set my sights on a target and took a full swing.
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I hit the Wiouwash Trail again today. It was a couple of days since my last ride, biking for big guys like myself can be traumatic to certain parts of the body. Two things, sitting in the saddle and the constant and nearly non stop rubbing of body parts, forget about the normal fatigue that out-of-shape guys like me experience.
I hit the trail and focused on a few things.
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It feels good too!
My first ride of the season happened today (Tuesday April 13). I picked up the bike and ran some other errands and returned home dropped off that stuff, got lunch, ran some more errands.
I came home and busted out my bike gear and got back in the saddle.
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