A Number Of Minor Events - Get My Prescription Filled

I went down to the Walmart drugstore to get my prescription filled. 

And I noticed, on my way in, no eggs. And then, no milk. Hmmn. Nothing on the cheese aisle. And no meats. No frozen foods. I guess something took their power out long enough that much of the store's perishables became a load of garbage.





Walking short-cut behind the store. And earlier bicycle ride that went past Kmart. Concrete-block construction.

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Wind from last year's tropical storm. Looks like it blew hard and long from southeast. - Riverside Park. I'd gone looking for Park Fliers. Thinking about an airplane. It's about a done deal. Not that I have any good reasons for having a foam electric-motor airplane.

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When rain came on Sunday. 

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Various Landscapes & Draining The Swamp

We may or may not get sorta high-speed rail through Vero Beach. And, if we do some of the track will need improvements. This is not TGV we are talking here. 

Reworking rail crossings, where the train-car hits are going to take place, is part of the plan. 

I lived, in Lafayette, within twenty or thirty yards of a rail crossing. Even with slow-speed trains there were regular one-sided events involving a train and a car. For which to occur, the car driver had to go around crossing gates. Big sedans make a thud sound when they are hit. Minivans more of a crunching, popping, and crackling. Maybe it's more glass?

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Florida landscape with moon.

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74th Ave SW. Bridge collapsed some time ago. A replacement and repair is being made.

 






Downtown, another crossing repair. Which, closing Route 60 westbound on Sunday morning, really confused a lot of elderly drivers. Who had not computed about half a mile of signs about road closed ahead. It all happened so fast!

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Where Denny's Once Stood

On US 1. The Denny's where, years ago, they told me they didn't have coffee to go. One early morning around three or four, I suppose. That Denny's now gone and replaced with a mattress store to complement the one across the street. From which parking lot I'm taking this picture.

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A minor test of Lumix 14/2.5 against an evenly-lighted wall with sufficient texture for (1) autofocus to work, and (2) get some sense of sharp or not to the corners. Not a bad lens.

Zoom isn't my deal. I have one b/c that's what was on the camera when I bought it used. Knew from using 35mm that I prefer 24 and 28 for representing what I see more or less the way that I see it. And, also from 35mm film, that I'm okay with a normal lens around 40. Although a little shorter isn't a bad thing.

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Friday night art walk. And opening at Center For Spiritual Care. Artist Mark Kirby. Ellen and I bought one of his pieces. Keeping in scale with our house, already large collection, and budget, it was one of the smaller.




And a show of charter high-school work at Raw Space. Musicians were great. 

Work that got ribbons seemed to be for meeting the requirements of an assignment. Work that challenged the artist not so much. 

Raw Space is the place to watch. 

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Work In Progress

Sorta work that progresses. I'm back in the shoopshop darkroom much more often. And taking photographs that I didn't know were possible with digital camera film. - I'd let myself get bogged down in the huge compromises of small cameras with too much zoom.

That mentioned, there's this: The Lumix 20/1.7 vignettes. A whole lot. And the 14/2.5 isn't sharp in the corners until at least 5.6. I'm guessing that it focuses the corners somewhere other than the "film" plane. Also it has a tiny bit of barrel distortion. Sigh.

Guessing. I suspect that going MFT from 4/3 put optics too close to the sensor. And aspheric and all the rest can't quite make a decent lens that is the inexpensive money a fella would want to pay, if he could.

In defense of Lumix, Leica made some stinkers. The fifties and sixties had three or four really good, but kinda slow, lenses. And a whole mess of lenses that were okay, but at Leitz prices. Then they figured out how to make the Summicron. That's another story. Another time.









No potato. Here's a poodle -

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A Small Discovery And Other Matters

Ellen begins work on a new painting. The dog works on doggly matters that involve gnawing.

I've been curious how rail crossings are being rebuilt. One must be quick, and I was insufficiently so. Guessing that not more than a couple of hours needed to break the old track out and lay new into place. Track is assembled, and to dimension, as it arrives on the job site. Then a day or so for a contractor to do pavement replacement. - Meanwhile, I'd wanted a pic of Florida East Coast's new rigs for some time. They have been changing over their main line GE locomotives to LNG. Tank in the middle contains sufficient fuel for Miami to Jacksonville and back. Saddle tanks still carry diesel b/c the engine remains compression ignition.

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