Freezing Fog

When the temperature is below freezing and there is fog, then we have freezing fog. We have it now. We are forecast to have it until late next week. Here is what it looks like…

No mountain tops, a haze of cold fog that freezes as ice crystals on some of the trees. I am not sure why some trees and not others, but I’m guessing that just like fog swirls around things, this freezing fog swirls also, hitting some trees and not others.

It hits the roads also and it hit my road. I was going to take Karl to the park by the lake and see what things looked like there, but after seeing my road I changed my mind and we walked here at home. And since the lake keeps things warmer around it, there might have been nothing to see…

Freezing fog or not, we walk and we play…

The soccer ball is close to being skinned. This particular ball was acquired in Ohio in Spring of 2006. Maybe we’ll spring for a new one THIS Spring!

Friday morning waning moon

Taken at 5:56 a.m. 1/16/2006

Canon S3 IS Manual Mode
ISO 100
F 7.1
Shutter 1/160
Focal length 72mm*
Continuous motor
Tripod

Image was cropped but otherwise is SOOC as is below which I added after the original post…nothing on the camera lens, some reflection I think causing the extra shadows. Above was image17 and below image22 – taken within 30-60 seconds of each other, just different camera settings.

ISO 100
F 5.0
Shutter 1/400

*I included this info but this is not 35mm equivalent…72mm on this camera is ??? – it has more “zoom” than the 17-85mm lens on my Rebel. That 17-85mm is equivalent to an 18-135 in 35mm. The “real” focal length on the smaller cameras – I don’t understand the equivalents myself yet.

Adventures with the tripod

The day needed a bit of adventure and some color. I set off in my brightest jacket and scarf, on snowshoes, with Karl, camera and tripod, intending to get a photo of Karl and I with the mountains in the background…

When I trained Karl, I taught hand signals as well as voice commands. Those last 2 photos – crouched down and arms to the side is the “Come” signal for Karl. Usually he comes running…

The tripod was apparently off-putting. He has figured out that it means he has to do something and do it for a long time, while I run back and forth like a crazy person. He opted out of participating this day.

So, it is me with the mountains in the background.

Karl waited patiently out of the fray. As soon as I put the tripod away, he trotted over to the photo venue all waggy-tail. I don’t know where he gets the “I’m just going to do what I want to do and that’s it” behavior…

Big Sky

There are days when the sky here looks as if it were painted with water colors – soft, smudged clouds against a pale blue sky. Yesterday was that kind of day.

A special hello to Ms. Moser’s class in Louisiana! The class has been looking in on From the Front Porch as they study things like freezing point and melting point, and what life is like in the northern part of the United States where Karl, Bob and I live, compared to the southern part of the United States where they live. Thank you to the class for the wonderful photo saying hello to Karl, Bob and I!