Patturns Of Highperactivity: Follow your dreams.. even if they are muddled.

Kicking up the white crushed rock on the pathway, looking towards the hearth fire smoke rising from the sparse houses hidden by the intervening trees brings back memories of childhood romps in the underbrush, hiding in pill boxes alongside the road. Sneaking around in the fields of barley, popping heads up to see if you can sky someone before they spy you. John pipes up with a lilt to his voice, "You could be leagues away if you shoes weren't planted to the ground." I can feel the corners of my mouth turning up " You have no clue how close you are. But this walk with you is just as nice as I could ask for." "Oh ah." comes bubbling from out his grinning face. "Just round the bend here is my little spot of home. I put the kettle on the fire before running the boys out. Biscuits and honey as we I expect." "I would never say no to a good biscuit....honey or not.."

Day 1,237,335,565.248972344523097234552 of half sleep and back pain and what have you attached to those fun things. Dreams of wicked hounds from a Laumer book running around my fore-brain chasing down misfiring cells. So,no third day of ballooning. Could not get there and if I could, would not be of use to much of anything. I do have the 1000+ shots to play with though. The delay from getting up in the morning, racing to the morning brief then taking pictures then having to leave to download process and edit just takes too much time. If I had a room at the hotel then I could bring my computer rig there and download while I was doing other things then post edit and print for the competitors right on the spot. I also would not be unable to get there the next day as I would already be there. I may have to mention that to somebody for next year.

Edits today... I did four with a yellow background only as the baggies that were being thrown were yellow. I decided I wanted to black and white them too just for S's & G's. They turned out fine. So I used three different edits in one edit. After that I had to get my poor aching back out and buy foods for the house. I did that and got fuel for my fan. Hopefully next weekend I can get my balloon out and fly. I posted those black and whites to Facebook and also on return did four more specific for upward 3d pseudo view. They also turned out well. I used a different lighting effect this time. Check em out.