Musings from the fourth row and the road between Jax and UF.
I noticed Monday that my good friend Erin had posted photos from her neighborhood in Davie (a Ft. Lauderdale suburb) showing damage from Hurricane Wilma. I heard from her via e-mail Tuesday evening. This one was a Yahoo! Editors’ Pick. And this one was shown on CNN Monday afternoon.
They have no power and no phone (landline or cell), but their DSL link somehow stayed up and she was able to post these while her iBook still had charge left in it.
As I noted on the description of the first gallery, a personal FAQ of the past year has been “Have you been to the Butterfly Rainforest yet?” I could have gone anytime, but there was one person I wanted to go with the first time and that confluence of schedules didn’t happen until July 16, 2005. So check out my photos from my trip with Dana to the Butterfly Rainforest.
The very next weekend, Mom came to visit and the day after we went tubing, I took her on a visit to the Rainforest and took another bunch of pictures.
And for those who don’t know, the Butterfly Rainforest is a wonderful attraction at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.
It was a good bike ride and picnic for the Gainesville Cycling Club today, here are the photos. I rode 33 miles with the Strays, my usual group. The last part of the ride was aided by a nice tailwind courtesy of tropical weather in the Atlantic off South Florida. My banana pudding disappeared very rapidly.
I’m a little behind on posting here, but I thought it worth mentioning that I’ve posted a couple of photo galleries from July tubing adventures at Ichetucknee Springs State Park.
On July 23, Andy and Joy brought Mom and the boys and we floated from Dampier’s Landing down to the South end take-out point. The photos were taken with a Fujifilm waterproof disposable film camera and processed and scanned to cd at Harmon’s in Gainesville.
On July 30, Dana and I got an early start and floated from the North end to Dampier’s Landing. These photos were taken with my Canon Powershot G1 digital camera using my new Aquapac waterproof case. Be sure not to miss the manatees.
I have posted photos from last night’s Fanfares & Fireworks show at the UF bandshell in the photo gallery.
Justin asked me the other day if there was an easier way to process a bunch of digital photos for e-mail (downsizing them) rather than opening each one in an editing program, resizing, and resaving by hand.
That got me to thinking about what my favorite free photo utitilities are and here they are (one for Macs, one for Windows, and a Java one that’s cross-platform).