This functional Macintosh replica is just 2.4-inches tall.

I am seriously impressed. I’ve been trying to cut down on the amount of spare “stuff” in my life but a part of me wants to order one right now.

“Ex-Bridge”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/100s, ISO 1250. Along the East Fork Trail. There’s supposed to be a bridge here (you can see one big timber on the far bank). Luckily it was only mid-thigh deep to wade.

Missing Bridge on the East Fork

“There’s a Trail in There Somewhere”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/11, 1/100s, ISO 250. Along the East Fork Trail.

There is a trail from where I’m standing straight to the slightly larger gap in the trees just left of center. It hasn’t had much maintenance (or traffic) lately.

Thoroughly overgrown trail

“You Can’t Keep a Good Fern Down”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 15mm, f/11, 1/40s, ISO 800. Along the East Fork Trail.

A small bridge surrounded by ferns

“Spring Trail”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9, 14005s, ISO 320. Olallie Trail with a foot or so of snow on the east side of O’Leary Mountain.

Show-covered trail

“Morel Season”

Olympus E-M10 IV with M. Zuiko 40-150mm f/5.6-6.3 lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/400s, ISO 200. On the O’Leary Trail south of Mclennan Mountain.

Finished: The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling 📚. A rip-roaring adventure tale set in an alternative-history sort-of-steampunk 2025 India, featuring soldiers of the British Raj, Imperial Russian secret agents, Sikhs, Pathans, Jewish merchants and a host of others. A quite enjoyable book in the Heinlein “good guys win by being noble and competent and get the girls” mold.

“Sawtooth Ridge”

Olympus E-M10 IV with M. Zuiko 40-150mm f/5.6-6.3 lens @ 53mm, f/8, 1/200s, ISO 160. Seen from the O’Leary Trail west of MacDuff Mountain.

Sawtooth Ridge forested mountain summits

Finished: The Living Reed, by Pearl S. Buck 📚. A novelization of Korean history from 1881 to 1945, of which I knew essentially nothing before reading. I’m not sure I know how much after - like Buck’s other books, this is quite romanticized, and focused more on personal stories than historical analysis. Slow and lush writing makes for pleasant reading though.

“Mossy Elephants”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 15mm, f/5, 1/125s, ISO 3200. O’Leary Trail west of MacDuff Mountain.

Trailside rock formations covered with moss