Here is a photo of one of the fields I walk to on the ridge in the evenings. It has been full of deer the last few weeks, they were grazing on the oats and then moving onto eating the corn plants.
This field should have produced two or three times the number of round bales shown here. Our county is now in severe drought and as of Friday with temperatures rising and the humidity dropping to 25%, we are also in a Fire Watch.
We've had lows in the 40's this week and some nice temperatures. Come this holiday weekend we will be back up to nearly 100. The DNR is saying that we will be in critical fire danger starting today. Campfires will be considered a no-no.
The good part about it being so dry? Maybe it won't feel SO hot? The bad part? Well, we really really DO need rain!
I'm nearly ready to quit watering my flowers and let nature take its course and gather seeds for next year.
Another Flickr fellow had done a super short stop motion with one of his characters and it was pretty impressive. I decided to try it also.
I wasn't going in for the 24 frames per second or higher as that takes a TON of time. I thought I'd try something simple while seated on the porch.
So this is 11 seconds of fun that took 40 photos to create. I won't do this as anything other than a fun little hobby. It takes too much time and effort to do a really smooth Stop Motion animation.
IT is hard! The last time I tried this was with my kids and their Legos, a dinosaur, a rubber rat, and a soda can.
We used a hand me down video camera that took stop motion stills that was on a VCR tape!
Dennis and Ariel plan to visit us on Sunday, they will drive up for the day and then go back home as Dennis is scheduled to work on Labor Day. That will be nice. I know Dennis wanted to ride the mules, but with temps near 100, it won't be happening.
Our weekend will be quiet and fairly usual. We don't do Holidays around here.