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Well, here we are.\u00a0 The longest day of the year.\u00a0 And every minute of daylight is already spoken for.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a party coming up on Saturday to celebrate my grandson\u2019s high school graduation.\u00a0 And Camera Girl has a list of chores as long as my arm!<\/p>\n

Cut the lawn, install air conditioners, clean the barbecue grill, buy some gasoline, weed the garden, and on and on and on.\u00a0 Normally I like to set aside the solstice to quiet contemplation of our small place in the limitless grandeur of the cosmos.\u00a0 But I guess instead I\u2019ll be scraping grease off of a barbecue rack.\u00a0 I don\u2019t suppose Aristotle had to put up with this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s alright.\u00a0 The party isn\u2019t the only thing on the list.\u00a0 I have to get some supplies for the Yellowstone trip and this is the week when I have to figure out what lenses to pack.\u00a0 And that means I have to do some testing of lens quality.\u00a0 I have to decide whether I can just bring the manual 10mm Voigtlander lens or do I have to take the 12-24mm Sigma too.\u00a0 Autofocus is not very important for landscape lenses but having the long side of the 12-24 might be useful under some circumstances.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have the 35mm 1.4 along but there\u2019s a big difference between 24mm and 35mm.\u00a0 I\u2019ve decided to leave the 200mm macro and the 135mm 1.8 at home.\u00a0 The 90mm macro is much faster and brighter than the 200mm and the 200-600 lens will cover all the telephoto requirements.\u00a0 If I\u2019m being honest there\u2019s a good case for taking the 10mm, 35mm, 90mm macro and the 200-600mm lenses and nothing else.\u00a0 But something tells me I\u2019ll drag the 12-24mm along just for the sake of completeness.<\/p>\n

Camera Girl has been kind of upset over a hawk that\u2019s been killing the birds that come to her feeders.\u00a0 So far, it\u2019s done in two mourning doves and a chipmunk.\u00a0 And insult to injury, it plucks the feathers off its victims before taking them away.\u00a0 I\u2019m sympathetic to her feelings for the birds.\u00a0 She really enjoys watching the various species that are attracted to the feeders.\u00a0 But my sympathy doesn\u2019t extend to chipmunks.\u00a0 They\u2019re just striped rats in my book.\u00a0 They\u2019ve dug a couple of tunnels on this hill on one side of the house and have had a population explosion. \u00a0I\u2019ll gladly pay that hawk a buck apiece for every chipmunk head it delivers.<\/p>\n

I saw that DeSantis had a press conference where he countered the White House\u2019s complaints about his administration not ordering vaccine for the 6 month \u2013 5-year-old Floridians.\u00a0 DeSantis very reasonably stated that the evidence that the regulators were pointing to for approving the vaccines for such young children was extremely unconvincing and so just as with the 6 to 11-year-olds, Florida wasn\u2019t recommending people vaccinate their children.\u00a0 He also wasn\u2019t preventing it.\u00a0 It would be a private decision between parents and their physicians.\u00a0 Once again DeSantis comes away looking like the only grown-up in the room.<\/p>\n

I guess we\u2019ll have to wait a while longer for the Supreme Court to spill the beans on their decisions.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if Roberts manages to frighten any of the conservative justices away from overturning Roe v. Wade.\u00a0 I\u2019m also interested in how the Second Amendment case turns out.\u00a0 These are very important cases.\u00a0 A lot depends on their outcome especially with the mid-terms coming up.<\/p>\n

Well off to the salt mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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