It's been raining here. A lot. In fact, it has been pretty much raining with very few short pauses for close to 24 hours straight and there was significant rain in approximately the eight hours that preceded those 24. As of 10 minutes ago the storms, which have been rolling in since yesterday December 29th, 2021 until today, December 30th at 4:10 PM, have bestowed 4.35" (11.049 cm) of wetness. That's 10.46" (26.5684 cm) of seasonal rainfall. Which means we're just about to double last year's total seasonal rainfall. Only Docken predicted this to happen, many months ago.
Anyway, all this precipitation put a damper on walks these last two days and I decided what better opportunity for another purging of photos off an old and fussy hard drive and to continue the blog series known as, Once Upon a Walk Report. Part Eight was way back on May 8th and fortunately I put a reminder there telling me I needed to continue with folder # 14 because since then I had to get a new computer, juggle hard drives and basically make a mess of what was where.
Folder # 14 takes us back to August 27, 2016 and we end on November 26th, 2016. It was a relatively small folder with about 3,600 images (there was some cleanup since May) and it still needs a lot of purging. I only threw away about 400 images today and I'd guess its going to end up with only a couple of hundred saved images. Do you need to know that? No, but I do. I come here all the time to remind myself of stuff.
I'm just going to drop selected images in without names or descriptions, unless I change my mind. They're kinda going in by date taken. These are pictures I happened to like.
 |
| Grape leaf |
And as an added bonus, here's a 33 second video of Docken and Eric Duck from November 5, 2016. This was shot handheld with a 70-300 mm lens probably set around 180 mm without really being able to see much of an image on the camera's LCD. Everything is what it is.
