Egrit

Out and about early with all the gear loaded into Silver, and rolled down the Hill....expectation was to leave Silver at the Garage for like days to get the DW fixed...stayed up until like three am reading web accounts...dont know but soon someone will put together a book, if not already...anyway, no DW on the roll down!....this was a bookend of the no stall on the rolldown a couple weeks ago...and once again, somewhat chagrined, I rolled up to the sevice manager at the reserved time (one must have a reserved time!), and said, 'it's okay now, cancel my appointment'...hmmph...had whole day ahead free, and Silver okay so long as fingers crossed it seems, and I would have gone far afield somewhere, but fog...so, so, did go out to Merced Wildlife Refuge...where on arrival Fog burned off... and made a circut...pic up of Egrit....some more pics for likely tomorrowpost with more report...fog to sunny hazy cool...on return, stopped in Town for Lunch, and shopping...storage drive, and yet another waterproof camera, this one by nikon, and inexpensive, and nearly the perfect shape and configuration to digi scope with the spotting scope, which is nearly superfluous now, as on opposite side of the counter was canon's new 50x...that's 1200 mm in 35mm world!...point and shoot...and it was sold out...I've sometimes thought of trading in Silver for canon's 500 mm red ring lens, but have had a suspicion that these point and shoots are growing longer and longer lenses!...nikon has a 45x....actually, myself, I've come to the opinion that wildlife photogs should use nothing longer than a 300mm...anything longer and one is too far away to understand what Critters are about...but 50x...sheesh...back at the Valley, paddled back to Creek's End for Moon Over Halfdome Evening...there is really only one of these each month, and I made a point of getting back, and glad to, as I thought I'd be stuck in Maripose overnight!....Three Brothers, Bucks, and Two Does, crossed River thereabout...tried to get clip with pan to Moon at end...Moon was over Washington Column from that vantage, and behind Cottonwoods....for sometime post...picked up and hurried to the Ponderosa With the View of Half Dome, and did better...for sometime...the 50x is more 'lens' than 'camera'....and as I've noted before, someday photogs will go about with a gear bag of digital lenses--basically all in one digiscopes....