Weird Photography

 Woohoo ... the frost was on the pumpkin on this day!  Winter has arrived as it gets colder and colder in the mornings.  That makes for a second cup of coffee while waiting for it to warm up before going outside.  Now is the time we start praying for rain, because it's WARMER when it rains.

Time for Nancy to put on her big girl pants and climb UP ON THE ROOF ... where all your cares just drift into space ... up on the roof.  Yup that's the song I was singing as I put the slide out.  Gosh ... it grumbled, stuttered for about a foot (luckily kept going) and finally stopped.  Well at least it went OUT.  Hopefully it comes back IN.

Then I got out my Quartzsite extend-o-ladder and set it up alongside.  I thought that might feel safer than climbing the ladder in back.  I was wrong.

I made it up on the roof, but it was a little shaky.  Good grief ... nothing about this roof is flat.  It tilts off to the side, the front and the back.  I crawled on hands and knees ... buck up girl, you can do this ... until I had made the rounds.  It all looked pretty good, but then again, I didn't get very close to the edge.  DARN ... when the guy was here cleaning my solar panels, I should have had him clean these too.  

The climb down wasn't as fun as the climb UP.  There's just nothing to hang on to.  Next time I'll wait until I'm in Quartzsite where I can sweet talk someone into holding the ladder for me.  On the other hand, I didn't die, so there's that!!

I spent the next hour wiping down the slide seals with special slide stuff.  I thought about doing the same with the slide gears or rails, whatever you call them ... but didn't have the correct spray.  I ordered a can of Lippert stuff especially for the occasion, although some people swear you don't need to do anything.  I breathed a big sigh of relief when the slide went back in.  Am I the only one who holds their breath??

There was lots more time on the new phone and computer, trying to get my four email addresses to work.  At this point my computer doesn't want to recognize any of them and they go straight to the junk folder.   One doesn't work at all.  I can't get it to like the one that involves the CHP truck registration, which I'm sure is going to result in NO inspection.  It's been a week and I haven't heard back from them.

In the meantime, I thought I might experiment with some weird images.  This is infrared photography.  I've never done it before.  This is my back yard on a bright sunny day.  Look for contrast they said.  Well really, there's not much of that in my back yard, but there is this beautiful green tree.  

Does this look all out of focus?  That's because it is.  When you put the filter on the lens, you can't see anything at all.  They forgot to tell me that part.  You have to focus the camera first, THEN put the filter on.  My first five images came out as black as night ... maybe blacker!!  Cool for Halloween though!

Then you download those images into your computer program and start messing with the colors.  Obviously this isn't great ... but for a first shot, I'm happy I got anything at all!!  Terribly out of focus ... because, well you already know, but the tree looks pretty cool.  It looks like a tornado is coming through.   Much more practice is required.

Since it was a full moon night, and the tripod was already set up, I went out after the sun went down.  I don't do that very often!!  The moon was just coming up over the trees next door.

It always surprises me just how fast the moon rises.  It's going great guns!!  Too bad it wasn't HALLOWEEN last night.

This is the Hunters Moon, but also known as the Dying Grass Moon.  The Native Americans in the North and East named the moons so they could track the seasons.  This month it gets cold and the grass dies off.  This month they need to hunt for winter food.

The moon always amazes me ... what are the dark spots?  What are the tiny light spots?  Look down towards the bottom right and it looks like a stem was attached there.  Too bad the astronauts didn't put a big X  so we could see where they landed.

Anyway, pretty cool when you think about this being another planet spinning around in space.  Even more amazing that we are doing the same thing.

It's Sunday, a day of rest, but I will probably still be chipping away at the piles of STUFF throughout the house ... after I fix my email accounts.