The water was freezing!! Nonetheless, I can’t remember going swimming in October before. I went tubing in the Gunpowder River last weekend. Regarding global warming, I went swimming in the Chesapeake Bay yesterday. We have had droughts other years, but I don’t ever remember these particular trees failing to turn brilliant colors before.Īlison’s film made me feel nostalgic for my college days in Maine when we would go driving to Vermont to see the leaves. ![]() There are cornfields all across Maryland with 5-ft high corn sitting brown and dead, unharvested, in the fields. There are 5 maple trees where I work, and for the last 10 years or so I have watched them turn brilliant orange and red about this time, but this year, the leaves are turning brown and falling off the tree without even changing color, due to the terrible drought we have had in Maryland this year. Things (i.e., the climate) are definitely different here in Baltimore. See this? Don’t ever touch that part of the camera, right here, don’t touch that, there, no, move your fingers, look, right here, that little piece of glass, never touch that, okay, don’t touch it, don’t touch that, yeah, the piece that you’re touching, let me get a lens cloth, okay, there, that, never touch that again, okay?” …rinse and repeat) (picture me first calmly and then frantically saying…”Honey, move your hand over. then again, I let my child use it so…that lens has been through some challenges. Nothing is ever in sharp focus…like a vaseline lens effect. Nothing matches the quality of those photos. I still have my first camera, a fully manual Pentax K-1000. ![]() Sometimes they’re so good that they defeat what we’re going after. Kind of the down side of our totally automatic point and shoot digital cameras. Have you used a tripod and put some tape down so you remember where you were shooting from each time? It is weird how the color range, lighting and even focus seem to vary so much in the film you shot. I don’t want to encourage compulsive behaviors but maybe shooting at the same exact time of day would be good? I’m buying shares in ski-making equipment companies myself … This year the jet stream went North and the gulf stream went South so instead of summer we had a monsoon where we didn’t have a day without rain for about 6 weeks.Īpparently the prediction is that all the fresh water melting from the Arctic slows down the gulf stream, moving it South, so Britain (roughly) gets the same weather as Newfoundland or Moscow and Spain becomes even more of a desert. Spring is definitely getting earlier and earlier – we’ve got gardening and weather reports going back 250 years to prove it. ![]() We’ve had some very weird weather – spring bulbs have appeared in September/October, birds laying 3 sets of eggs instead of 2 (successfully). The ice is vastly reduced, so those of you who live on the coast might want to think about moving a little inland in the next ten years or so! The Independent recently reported a temperature of 22 Celsius in the Arctic and that for the first time in recent history, ships have been able to sail the Northwest Passage without icebreakers. it’s odd and disconcerting.Īlison, is there a way to make the transitions in your film less jarring? i agree about doing it the same time of day and in the same place. no changing leaves at all which almost always happens by now with my maple tree. some of my roses are blooming again but not near the number that usually occur with slightly cooler weather. Now i live in the southwest and it’s still hotter than hades which is ridiculous for this time of year. i sort of got lost and had to ask directions from a man who looked like someone out of tam o’shanter (i was studying robert burns at the time) and who lived in this huge victorian lit up with pumpkins. ![]() on that night i remember it was foggy and dark driving through the green mountains and the trees looked like skeletons. I clearly remember that the leaves had done their thing about two weeks before and dropped the week before. one of my favorite memories of vermont is driving from dartmouth to middlebury on halloween night.
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