Contrast

Weekend plans were shifted some what, the urge for afternoon pizza came up, and well me and pizza means afternoon nap.

Last night we went for a short drive to try and get some sunset pictures. It waa a somewhat washed out sunset because of a lot of smoke, but still I tried to get a few shots.

I wanted to highlight some of the pushkey,(cow parsnip), so I used the flash, then I brightened a little in the paint program. It did not come out as well as I wanted.

The sun was setting behind a pretty dense layer of smoke from fires to the north up by Fairbanks. So far no significant fires around us.

So we did not stick around to see if it would get any better, I had one more stop I wanted to make before it got to dark.

No wind and I was hoping to get a nice set of images, I think auto stitch did a nice job once again stitching together six images to make one. I should have taken my tri-pod, but still even with slightly wobbly hands I am pretty happy with the picture.

On to Saturday:

I don't think I have ever intentionally taken a picture of an intersection, but since we were going to go pick-up a pizza to take home, and I wanted to get a Saturday picture, I thought why not. So there is nothing spectacular going on in the picture, it is just an everyday snap shot, not a work of art. But it is my first intentional intersection photograph.

Not much going on, not even a lot of traffic. Some days there is a lot of traffic, I should have tried for a DQ picture, they get a lot of traffic, but with a lot of bugs on the windshield and not feeling like getting out of the car for a picture plus I really wanted an intersection shot, this is what I got.

Well the pizza was good, a larger pepperoni and extra cheese affair. As per usual about an hour after consuming three slices, it was time to lay down for an hour. I do like and enjoy what I call food coma naps, naps bought on by food.

Since I don't really do regular beer anymore, I had a nice root beer to go with it.

Well day one of the weekend comes to a close with me having gotten up from my nap and making this post. Who knows, maybe I'll do another post on Sunday to close the weekend out.