Sunday Funnies, Snow, and Shadow Shot Sunday - 11-8-20

Three exciting topics this Sunday morning!  Lucky you! 

But, first, something even more exciting!  You can probably guess that I mean,

CONGRATULATIONS, U.S.A! 

Excitment #1.  Boo lost his rope ball.  I threw it and it disappeared.  After searching, both of us, I figured it must have gone over the fence.  Boo on the other hand decided it was caught in the pluot tree.  It was a rope ball with lose ends, so did catch on things.  

I search.  I climb up onto the concrete block edges.  I peer in the branches.  I shake the branches.  I break off nasty diseased branches.  No ball.  Every time I tried to tell him it wasn't there he insisted it was.  Here he is, "Looking right at it, Grandma!"

After many attempts to find it, a pretty noticeable pink rope ball, I ask Boo, "Boo, you say it's in a tree, but could it be in a different tree?"

I turn, and there it is, hanging in the nearly leafless peach tree, right behind us.  What a dummy of a Border collie.

It was cold Saturday afternoon.  I hadn't realized how cold the night had been until I noticed the snow.

Yes, this next is the same view.  It's taken with my iPhone, an old 5c.  I was comparing its distance photos to a camera.  Sure, it's an old camera now, but, when it was new, it was expensive.  For distance, it did a better job zooming in on the snowy mountain while keeping the pretty autumn trees in focus.  With the phone it all got a bit grainy.  The camera has a macro mode, but the phone's camera does a much better job close-up.  This little test is due to something another blogger wondered on Saturday, what camera to get for birds?  Ramblin' with AM

I haven't used the camera in years.  I got it out a few weeks ago to attempt to get a picture of the most beautiful moon and clouds I'd ever seen.  The battery was dead, and normal batteries don't have what it takes to power a camera.  So, no photos of the most beautiful moon and clouds I've ever seen.  I have another camera, a little Sony that's also older.  It had no batteries at all.  I don't keep cameras on me, so I think the phone will be what I use unless I take a special trip somewhere, which is extremely unlikely!  I do plan to get a newer phone before long.  Not newest, but newer than a 5c.

 Shadow Shot Sunday

The chances of lounging on the deck in the sun are low now that the cold and rain have arrived.  I packed away the umbrella, the butterfly chairs, and their covers.  The deck was an interesting pattern of legs and shadow. 

 Thanks for dropping in.  Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!