Smee
Start off slow then, Ease up…
life
LHL Update
Well we had a bit of a road trip yesterday. Out on the first boat, a visit to the Bakery for coffee and gave a lift to a like-minded fellow to Corpach.
As it was dry and pretty clear we decided to head through the Great Glen to Inverness, bits of Scotland my mum had not seen before and better to go looking at the view than spend endless hours in Fort William.
LHL Update
Read more...Aldo Leopold Bench
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” – Aldo Leopold
Using up some more of the re-cycled fence boards this afternoon. It’s all Larch and still in reasonable nick after 14 years…
So I made this 36” wide ‘Aldo Leopold’ bench. It’ll head out onto the hillock under the ‘BIG’ Sycamore and provide a great look-out over the loch to the mountains. And, will provide a reason for my mum to go sit, read, drink tea etc when the sun shines or the weather is suitable.
Painted with some OSMO paint that we also use on the window frames of the house.
More about Aldo Leopold here.
Expeditions
#expeditions #philosophy #life
‘If you don’t spend 90 per cent of your time on an expedition wishing you weren’t on an expedition then it’s not an expedition… it’s a holiday’ – Andy Torbet
Unbelievable Offer
Recently I moved away from fb and started my own ‘Instance’ on Mastodon. Through that I began to follow one or two folks on another ‘instance’ based around Photography. Today I had the most unbelievable offer from what amounts to a complete stranger.
A guy in Weston-Super-Mare has offered me his whole darkroom setup…
I really don’t know what to say, it has been through the most tenuous of links to photography and film photography that has led to this offer.
I have space here for a darkroom, not ideal to set up, would have to think about how it could be done; but…!
LHL Update
Endless rain these last few days…
The wind has died for now, but according to the forecast will pick up again after tomorrow and be ever present through the weekend to come.
Looking out of the window at the trees slowly turning yellow and russet, the leaves clinging on barely in the storms…
Ground is absolutely saturated, the bare-root apples arriving at some point in the next couple of weeks – so hopefully we might have a bit of an Indian Summer to enable getting them in their positions without drowning.
I have 5 shots remaining on a roll of Kodak Ektar in the Mamiya C220. Hoping to get out and use these on some of the leaf colour. I’m behind with scanning though, still have the scanned France images to process and yet to start those from the five rolls of already developed Canada images (6 more rolls from Canada yet to develop in colour and three in B&W.)
Managed to get in around ten 100l sack loads of seaweed for the veg and fruit bush beds. The veg beds mulched to about 30cm deep and then covered with a weed suppresent material weighed down with rocks for the winter – worms should be having a field day under there..! Also mulched directly the Blueberries and Blackcurrants. The Blackcurrants will be mulched again in the spring, but need to be careful in not raising the pH too much for the Blueberries – they like it acidic.