Hello deer

Two new deer pics for you.

First up: the shih-tzu mentioned last post, nose to nose with a Grand Forks white-tail deer drinking spring melt near the southern edge of the Vienna Woods.

Second: a pair of white-tale fawns roaming amongst the Ponderosa Pine of the Vienna Woods in late spring.

Yesterday, was a long day. I spent about five hours walking around, mostly in rural GF, and shot about half a roll of film. I did miss some great shots as i was walking home, because i didn't take my tripod with me, but i know that there's no way i could have gone as far as i did if i had taken it with me (four pounds doesn't sound like much, but after two hours with nothing but a makeshift shoulder strap to try and distribute the weight...).

I'm going to Alberta for Easter, to spend time with family that i haven't seen since Thanksgiving (i'm Canadian, so that means since Orctobre [and for some reason i just love using the French 're' spelling of applicable shared words like theatre and metre, call it a Canadianism]). We're leaving Thursday and plan to be back Monday.

*edit: The linguistic assumption of self (over)importance inherent in the tradition of capitalising "i" in every instance is damn difficult to break sometimes (like after twenty years of habit).

Went out photographing this evening. Unfortunately there was a high level haze that left the sky a rather unappealing shade. And this haze was thick enough in the west to leave the light fairly flat. Still, I did snap a few pics of some deer that I came across, and I won't complain about a two hour walk under fairly nice conditions.

I might get out tomorrow if the whether' nice enough (I think I saw something about rain for tomorrow) and if my shoulder's up to it (I need to find some different way of packing my tripod around).

Just a cute puppy pic for U today.

We picked up our new motor-home yesterday. It might be serviceable to our needs, but I find the layout awkward and limiting. I suppose that's the price that has to be paid for having a permanent bed at the back of a 25 foot class C.

In other news, I'm getting somewhat annoyed with my ISP. To put it bluntly, Shaw has dropped my IP five times in the past three days, that I've noticed. As far as surfing goes, I've only been online maybe four or five hours on any given day, and I don't pay too much attention to whether or not my IM can keep a connection while I'm scanning film or otherwise occupied with non-internet tasks.

The pic is of Dusty, aka Fuzzbutt, shot in our backyard in Penticton about a year-and-a-half ago.

Well, a sappy Valentine's Day to U all.

Here's another puppy pic from last January.

Oww! my back.

I threw my back out on Tuesday, only managed to get in to see a chiropractor today. I've spent most of the past two days in a "reclining" position with either an ice pack or a heating pad jammed against the base of my spine. I'm a bit better today, I can sit upright, for a bit anyways. I go back to the bone cruncher on Monday.

This cute, but otherwise worthless pic was shot in January '06, after The Fuzzbutt had her third and final litter.

Dog Tired

It's been a long day. Left here for the Greenwood job at 7:15am, got home for supper at 6:45pm.

Another long day tomorrow.

This is Dusty, taken some time this summer, f-something-er-other (probably 5.6, maybe 8).

The Navigator

Well, I figured it's time to test the photo capabilites of this place, I am a photographer after all.

This is Dusty, my Shih Tzu, as my family and I were entering Banff National Park, on our way home from visiting relatives in Alberta over the July long weekend.