Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 30, 2014

Kevin’s Boy Scout Camp is in the living room…

sometimes he gets wanderlust. (probably for the camp conselor)

It’s just the opposite of a man cave.

Camp Wottanutteekevin.

Now I forgot what the subject was with all the side interjections…. Really threw me off with the asst camp counselor.

I keep the remains of the guy who cut me off in traffic last year….

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“Hello, Goldilocks…… we’re off for our walk until the porridge cools down. Hello… Blondie…. She’s hung over again.”

Is that your tent?

If I want a laugh, all I have to do is look for your name. A couple of those pictures are too funny (I won’t say which).

I got home from work about forty-five minutes ago. Changed into shorts and an Hawaiian print shirt, and took my dog for a walk.It’s hot. For the Oregon coast, it’s roasting.The thermometer on the (south) side of my garage says, 91.

My neighbor with a less exposed thermometer says that hers says 85.

You win…

I left that when I left Arizona.I’m happy lo live I’mN a place where the upper 70s is a heat wave.

I see I’ve been accused of being too crazy about camping. It’s just that he showed me how the sleeping bags zip together so we need nothing inside (and has a nice inflatable mattress). I love camping in cold weather for that reason (because it’s so HOT inside) and plan to have another weekend at Highlands War (not the whole thing- the showers are not like at home).

Hullo all….

I know I’m late, but I gotta weigh in on that Lincoln photo…. It’s famous, and looks right to me…Officers like McClellan travelled in style, with china and linens and servants for their tents.

And the coloring may have been almost contemporaneous… I know I’ve seen it before.it was popular to have “important” photographs carefully painted in special transparent oil colors.

In the 1860’s they were expensive, taken only by professionals, with heavy, large format cameras..

The negative was on glass, or sometimes metal, and as big as the final print… no enlarging a 35mm image to 10×12″, thus lowering the resolution…

The quality and clarity are often truly impressive…. with amazing detail, contrast and depth of field.

You can see a large version of this one in great detail if you click HERE

(Be sure to click on it to enlarge it.)

Some were less perfect, of course….The flash powder was dangerous and sometimes burned too brightly, washing out the faces, and people might look grim or blurry because of trying to sit very still for 3 to 5 minutes.

50 years later when every home had a Brownie camera, people expected fuzzy images…. but not in Lincoln’s day.

Digital photography is great for communication and sharing… even art…but has to be pretty high-end to match 150 year old portraits like this:

Our tent might also have the sign you posted on the other, but I only plan to post our “devices” as soon as his is approved. We DO, however, try not to locate our tent too close to others (in case we make too much noise during the night at various times).

Essex and Happy….

I win?? Huh? Huh?

What do I win???

LOL – Not the noises we normally make (but that’s OK; You can use your imagination if they are not what YOU do.

Maybe he wants to take in some strays?

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Good morning Balladeers and Tigressy!