August | 2015 | Beth Byrnes

Mental floss

Posted on August 28, 2015 41 Comments

Funny how the mind works. When I opened up my brand new User’s Manual for the Nikon D610, I fully expected the first words to be something like “You have just gotten the best camera in the world, you brilliant creature you!”. Imagine my surprise when it just began with a list of FAQs because we […]

Nikonography

Posted on August 21, 2015 13 Comments

This will be a bit different. A two-parter, I am going to talk about my cameras today and next week, come back with some pictures taken with my newest one as an update to this post. I am clearly in the thrall of this hobby, which I suddenly realized gives me something to do in the summer when it is too […]

Ghirlwind!

Posted on August 14, 2015 26 Comments

Where do I start? It has been a crazy couple of weeks. We have had the annual influx of summer visitors, and Deanna and Annabelle in particular. Deanna brought a bevy of colleagues with her, so we had to get creative with all the regular beds, the two sofabeds in the Christmas room and Aerobeds in […]

Trumped up

Posted on August 7, 2015 27 Comments

OK, quick update. While all of this is largely true, eight months later and I can no longer say I could live with a Trump Presidency. He is being revealed to have engaged in more fraudulent and exploitative activity than I had realized. His taking advantage of the poor and gullible simply to line his […]