“Moon Point”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/13, 1/160s, ISO 200. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Scheduling a service call with Xfinity may be slightly less painful that a root canal. But I’m not sure about that. If we had any other high-speed internet available we’d drop these guys like a hot rock.
“Baby tree”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/5.6, 1/100s, ISO 6400. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
Finished The Lost Painting (on audio, but I’m making the rules in this blog, and I say it counts as a book). I know nothing about art history, so this was only mildly interesting, which made it perfect for background listening. Felt a bit padded but still a reasonably good story. 📚
“Not Dead Yet”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/5.0, 1/1000s, ISO 200. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
“I suppose you’re all wondering why I called you here today”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/4.0, 1/125s, ISO 4000.
$400 internet-connected toaster. Um, no.
To add insult to injury, Wired says it doesn’t even make good toast.
“Snow Wave”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @42mm, 1/100s, ISO 200. Along the road to Warner Mountain Lookout.
“Young’s Rock”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @42mm, 1/100s, ISO 320. Shot from Youngs Rock Trail.
I’ve been reading the Encyclopedia Britannica (yes, start to finish - this is the sort of thing retirement allows) and an offhand reference to unlikely coincidences in the introduction of Red Fife wheat to Canada caught my eye. The Britannica in its magisterial tone did not enumerate those coincidences. A little digging took me to the Canadian Encyclopedia:
Red Fife is Canada’s oldest wheat. One legend states that a load of wheat grown in Ukraine was on a ship in the Glasgow harbour. A friend of David Fife dropped his hat into the red-coloured wheat, collecting a few seeds in the hatband, which he then shipped off to David Fife. The wheat grew. The family cow managed to eat all the wheat heads except for one, which David Fife’s wife salvaged. This was the beginning of Red Fife wheat in Canada.
Of such threads is history woven. Even if it’s a legend, I prefer to believe that it is just unlikely enough to be true.