Blog-talking

Rainy stroll yesterday on newly paved old Weyerhaeuser road in Thurston Hills Natural Area

Waiting for coffee to finish dripping.

I mentioned earlier in the week that TR Kelley had started a Medium account. (I actually started my own Medium account so I could “clap” for her latest post there.) Yesterday I noticed that she had made a fresh post on her Blogspot blog! Welcome back to the blogosphere, TR!

Ahhh, coffee. My morning drug. Cafeto French Roast from Bruns' Apple Market, espresso grind (in their grinder), #6 cone-dripped here at home.

While I’m blog-talking, hat-tips for regular and meaty blogging are in order for My Garden, My Life, SW Oregon Architect Emeritus, Seldom Speedy, and Mrs. Random. My new year’s wish is to see more words (and more often) from the other denizens of my sidebar! If you’re reading on a phone, I think you’ll have to change to “web view” or something like that to see said sidebar. Best blog-reading experience is on a computer browser, of course. But I know lots of people are on the go and do their online lives exclusively on mobile, for better or worse.

My Christmas gadget was an OM Systems Tough TG-7 camera, which I got mainly for its waterproofness. Having used it a few times and shot quite a lot of images now, my verdict is “meh” on picture quality. Not a good low light performer, which is unfortunate because its main use case scenario for me is (or was going to be) out in rainy weather, which tends to be rather dim, by definition! The camera must be held very steady in order to prevent motion blur. I do like a lot of its features, so it might become a sunny day carry for street photography. It’s small and good looking. Has a variety of flash and illumination modes. Logs GPS, temperature, and elevation. And it’s tough. It being a Christmas gadget, I didn’t spend my own gadget fund money on it, so there’s that. Would I get it again knowing what I know now? Probably not. But I’ll make the best of it and find ways to use it!