Fawn and Sentinel

After Breakfast, Shuttled over to the Village....books came from amazon...paddled out to Bobcat Meadow...oh...Mama Doe and Two Fawns by the Post Office...pics and clip...and at the Meadow, by the Oak That Arches Over Half Dome, Mama Doe and One Fawn browsing Acorns...pic and clip....picked up, and just as I did, Praying Mantis landed on my neck...almost panicked and swatted, but held up--no strike!...brushed off, Mantis landed on the Boardwalk and posed...pic...continued to the Deer House...sat awhile on a Picnic Bench and read, and read a little while too at the Creek....some time left, and relaxed at the Cabin before work...kinda sleepy....sunny light high haze warm...at Lunch: sat awhile at the Fallen Cedar....Acorns, Ouzel, about...and heard Owl, Sentinel....very cool...it's Fall now....was able to locate Sentinel...a couple quick pics...while looking down to set the video, Sentinel flew off deeper into the Woods...could have followed, but didn't want to disturb....using the newer camera video is tricky...when using the 20x, I can be taking pics, and just press the video record button, but with the newer camera, I need to turn the dial...was sorta annoyed that the video icon is at the far end of the dial away from the P icon, where I usually have the setting...I've been having to look at the dial to change it, but realize now that because the video icon is at the end, I can just turn the dial without looking until it stops...that's one thing to work on, the other is how to hold and see in the live view..in bright light I can barely see, and in any light, with camera out, I can't see to focus...oh...the video is a feature that works best with a tripod, and a subject that isn't on the move...hmmph...wish the viewer was an lcd like the 20x, instead it's an old fashioned optical view finder...tried the monopod, and that didn't help much....

Books: The Voice of the Valley, and, Seen and Unseen, by Yone Noguchi

I mentioned finding these in earlier post. Noguchi was so young, and using English, not his native Japanese, that it's best not to comment, but just read the poems for their charm, and imagine how it would be to be very young, writing poems in Japanese, and not in your native English, about Mt. Fuji!

For awhile, Noguchi was a disciple of Joaquin Miller, which explains the 'thees' and 'thous' of Noguchi.