Spring! It’s here and boy am I glad to see it. I’ve got some great ideas for this summer. Hopefully, we’ll have the cabin fired up and running on all cylinders soon. Hopefully moose will walk up to the deck of the cabin every morning and insist that I rub their ears and make photographs. Probably not, but at the very least the moose should know that I’ve invited them.

So what’s with the WWII fighter plane image? Nothing. I loaded  Lightroom and this was the first interesting file I scrolled through. A P-47 at an airshow at Ft. Carson, CO some years ago. I should look to see if there are any good airshows this summer. Maybe balloon festivals. There’s usually something going on somewhere in Colorado, sooner or later.  I’ve been ignoring these things for some time now.

I am knee deep in the ghost town project. I have identified several locations  near my cabin, so when I get back to Northern Colorado, I’ll be making a few trips. I’ve been working with an old friend and it’s nice to reconnect with him after 12 years of running in different circles. Things change I suppose. Not everyone has the same schedule or sensibility about what they want to be doing, but people always seem to change orbits and swing into the world of commonality. Gotta take advantage of these opportunities. We aren’t getting younger.

On the back side of my photography life, I’ve continued to organize my photography archives and backups over the past few months. I’ve come up with a new methodology for backing up my image files. I’ll probably have to buy a couple of hard drives to get everything nailed down. The collection of backups right now is becoming a little bit tedious. Newer, larger drives will solve the problem of organizing everything into one easily accessed archive. As it sits now, I have image backups scattered over at least a dozen hard drives. That’s a formula for disaster. Maybe a couple of 10 terabyte drives is what the doctor ordered.

Oh, I got some new eye glasses recently. Of course, there is the exam that comes with those glasses and I’m happy to know that I’m doing okay, despite the fact that I have cataracts beginning to develop. My eye doctor tells me that just about all old men get cataracts and mine aren’t that bad in a general sense. I worry about these things regardless. I have a old friend from back in the military days who lost his eyesight and I wonder when something like that will happen to me.

That should be it for now. I try to make a blog post at regular intervals, so this counts towards that effort. It’s not always going to be something important, but it’s always important to make the effort.