Suddenly you can sense that people are rushing to get their bit of summer before it’s gone. Folks are streaming onto the roads to reach the beach and up to the lakes and mountains. But this year we aren’t doing much travelling. Just a few day trips. So I’ll enjoy the quiet for the next week or so. I’ll start putting together my fall maintenance list. There’s always plenty to get repaired before winter sets in. In fact I never get everything done. I’m much too lazy for that.
I’m seeing the early growing plants begin to die and the goldenrod is taking over from them. The trees have more and more yellow leaves on their branches and the bugs are going through their last stages. The butterflies are starting to look very tattered, the dragonflies are wearing out too. A difference from most years, there aren’t as many bees as there should be. Maybe all that rain took its toll somehow.
I packed up the Sony rental gear; the A7R IV A camera and the LA-EA5 adapter. I’ll put out a final long report with all of my observations and conclusions. It turned out I learned a lot of important stuff. And some of it wasn’t things I was looking for. I’ll start using the continuous autofocus a lot more than I used to. It comes in very handy for things I didn’t expect. And I have new found respect for the 200-600mm Sony lens. It is much sharper for close-up stuff than I expected.
The political world is a shambles. But that’s not news. What will be interesting is how Ron DeSantis uses his current high visibility and growing popularity. What goes on with the schools will be very important. If they can tame the teachers’ unions in Florida that will bode well for ending the COVID scam once and for all.
Afghanistan is an object lesson on what happens when the United States abuses its armed forces and indulges in political theater. Short of nuking the Pashtun areas of Pakistan we were never going to control the Taliban. Why we’re there ten years after bin Laden was executed is just another indication that the people in charge don’t know what they’re doing. But let this be a lesson for all of us. Never trust anyone named Bush or Cheney.
Well, gotta go cut the grass. stay tuned.