Back at the lake

Last weekend I roasted in 30+C heat finishing the roof on a shed I started building years ago. Now it’s done and can be used. So I immediately shifted back to the cabin where there’s no end of projects to work on. But all work is no fun so …

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Always an interesting sky.
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I wonder what this plane is and why it flew over.
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Ant in a hole in a tree.
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Valuable rock.
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Damselfly.
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Dragonfly.

Pictures taken with the Canon T100. First three with my new Tamron 18-200mm zoom. More on that later.

 

Bug life

What am I doing? Working on a shed. How is it going? So-so. One day I spent hours staring at my framing square like I’d never seen one before, the next day I got all the rafters up.

In the meantime I have taken some pictures with the handy-as-can-be Fuji F80 EXR. Most of them documenting the shed build, but others …

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Not bad for a camera that really isn’t suited to this type of photography.

I’m supposed to be ‘practicing’ with the Canon; getting used to using it in place of the ailing Nikon. But the Fuji fits easily into the pocket and goes along with me anywhere. I have no regrets in buying that camera!