Life Observed

This instruction had me searching all around the place for nothing.  I then placed nothing on the piano as instructed, because now was as good a time as any.

Here's what your estate office would look like if you were landed gentry at the start of the 20th century. Oh dear me. How tastes have changed. Kingston Lacy, Dorset.

I rather like this.  In fact it is the current wallpaper on my PC. I wonder what it is?

Tuesday Blues anyone?  Yes, I know it's not a Monday. but we just had Monday off as a Bank Holiday. So Tuesday is the new Monday. Yes, it rained a bit yesterday because it was a holiday, and it's a lovely sunny day today because it's a working day. I am with this guy, snapped at Kingston Lacy yesterday.

We often accuse clumsy or heavy handed items of having an agricultural design. Well it is true. Agricultural implements are not exactly delicate and decorative. Here we have a close up of the mud scraper on a large roller, made of sheet steel and showing all the signs of a lifetimes battering.  My examination of the roller reveals this home made scraper, welded on to the frame, replaced the previous one which broke or wore away. Perhaps the farmer fitted the thickest chunk of metal available to make the thing last longer. Agricultural design?  Yes. Absolutely.

You focus a lens by twisting a thing that moves the glass forwards. The further forward it goes, the closer the focus point.  In the old days this was obvious: You could see the lens move as you did the twisting. These days something magical happens deep inside the lens and elves move glass in secret ways. Anyway, you can force a lens to focus loser by fitting tubes between it and the camera. I have a nice set of Kenko tubes made for the micro four thirds camera range, and here's what you get if you park them on a legacy Tamron 135mm telephoto lens.. That is not too shabby at all. Let's hear it for good old fashioned extension tubes.

We live in a land of plenty, compared to the rest of the world. The harvest has started and the farmers are clearing the fields as fast as possible while the rain stays away. There is so much wheat being moved to and fro that whole loaf fulls are dropped on the ground whenever the trailer goes over a bump in the track..