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Gosh, I love the GoPros. 

Well, mostly, kinda, yeah well, maybe like an old boyfriend you'll still visit.

I was one of the last people who won when GoPro was giving away one of everything they made in a daily drawing. 

Whoa! 

I even made one of those goofy watch-me-open-all-this-GoPro-stuff videos which was me in front of a very large box going -- "ooooo look at this ooooo." 

Goofy. Yes. Dork alert. Absolutely.

Hero 4 Black et al. Way cool, and by the way, the ONLY GoPro that never failed me (knockwood.)

So, GoPro had my heart and I followed along with a 5, then 7 and finally 8. The Five was good. Seven froze too often. I sold it. Eight seems to still have that freeze problem but I haven't used it that much.

Seems to me, they've added too much computer in too tiny an package attempting to corral their market share instead of making and continuing to support a good product. But that's just me.

So, the teeny, tiny camera I always carry (in addition, of course to the one I call the fukin' phone) is DJI's Osmo Action which never does anything surprising, except take very nice pictures, moving and otherwise.

I still have the GoPros. I still love them. 

Mostly, kinda, yeah well, you know. 

And sometimes I think the GoPro is embarassed to be seen with me. We've never jumped out of an airplane, skied off a cliff or swum with whales. When he gets together with the other GoPros down at the local, he must hang his lens in shame. "Today she rode the mountain bike up and down the street in front of her house." Of course, there was a wedding video that one time ... 

Anyway, a match made in heaven. Albeit a slower-moving, down to earth one.

-- NOVEMBER in the One a Day for a Year -- 

Who can believe it's November already? What a suck-fest 2020 turned out to be. Next week will it turn the corner or continue on unabated? I'm afraid to look.

Anyway, I'm closing in on an entire year posting and shooting a picture every day. I've played with the cameras more than I had in a long time. I'm glad I stayed with it.

--  --

 

Seek and You Shall Find ...

... if you know where to look.

I was up at Vigilante, sitting in the dirt, playing in the water with Os, 

 when a woman with binoculars walked up and asked, did I see "that" bird?

And I'm like, what bird. I don't hear any bird. 

Then I heard a very small chirp. I looked around. She was scanning the tree tops with her binoculars. I replied, "I hear it, but I don't see anything."

She stayed for a bit longer, searching the trees then she gave up and walked away.

I shot a couple of creek videos, shut off the camera, crossed a small runoff, and stood in the brush by the creek where I heard a very small chirp. There he was. Not in the trees. In the water.

So, I guess the lesson is -- things aren't always where you expect them to be, or you can find what you're looking for if you look in the right place.

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 Three months to go

What a year.

Meme

Haven't done one of these is a long while. Copied from The Dackel Princess.

A is for Age – Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care

B is for Booze – Am working my way through the book DRINKING FRENCH. Have to keep buying ingredients. Who knew such a thing as Chartreuse existed.

C is for Career – Writer. Photographer

D is for Dad - My favorite is watching my husband be one. 

E is for Essential Item Sense of humor

F is for Favorite Song Memories - Maroon 5 

G is for Goof off I’m a writer. Staring into space is a required activity

H is for Hometown – Home is where the heart is.

I is for Instrument Ukulele! 

J is for Jam  Lemon curd.

K is for Kid My best accomplishment is raising a decent human being.

L is for Living as opposed to … 

M is for Mom’s name – Annie.

N is for Names Just don’t call me late for supper.

O is for overnight hospital stays – More than one, unfortunately.

P is for Phobias – Don’t think anything rises to the level of phobia, but you can mark me down as just generally nervous.

Q is for Quote “Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace.” Amelia Earhart.

R is for Relationship To everyone now is six feet and a mask. Thank-you.

S is for Sibling – 1.

T is for Texas Lived in San Antonio for a while. Learned to LOVE Cajun food. 

U is for Unique We all are in some way or another.

V is for Vegetable you love – Artichoke.

W is for Worst Political news. Can barely stand to read it anymore.

X – is for X-rays I had a pair of X-ray glasses when I was a kid. Geeky little me.

Y is for Yummy Recently discovered a blended Scotch that is just that.

Z is for Zodiac sign – Leo with Sagittarius rising.

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Nine months in, 244 days. Time flies, no?

That is my first camera. Made of plastic. Won in a contest by my mother.

Now I mostly use something like this.

Or, you know, the fukin phone.