252 / from back then

from the house I rented in Dalhousie

one year

& another year

boy at a country fair, he's probably a grandfather now

a miller in the mountains

kids in Kashmir when we rented a picnic boat for a week or so

they followed us along the bank of the Jhelum river  

hand coloured this, as the neg was desperately scratched 

shepherds on a short Kashmir trek

251 / further afield

Some mountain boys on a walk near Dalhousie

a Ghaddi shepherd

Ladakhi ladies. All from the 1970's.

Am wondering whether I'll go to Ladakh next year..

It would be so great with a digital camera.

250 / holidays

Really don't like the new OS on my computer - old one

worked fine, now all my slide shows are mixed, without the music

& transitions I'd carefully selected.. as there

are many thousands of photos involved, guess what ..

& why would I want to synchronise all the devices?

Have loads of storage on the computer, & would like to delete

photos off the phone & iPad without losing them on computer. 

It is stormy outside too, though the photo's from another day, at the beach

(Byron Bay) looking towards mount Warning.

249 / trees

First time using my iPhone photos for here, & amazed at their size.

Every year these eucalypts shed their bark in 

interesting ways, I see them when I walk to the Farmers market

early on Thursday mornings

 am very fond of the abstract patterns

after 2-3 weeks these particular trees are a smooth white

each one has individual patterns

I think their position re sun, traffic, wind etc

is part of how it works

& maybe some are older

like all parts of nature, I like to think they

enjoy to be admired

not in any vain way, just naturally

a particularly intricate & subtle one

have photos from several years, (though no record of which tree)

am fairly sure its a unique creation each year.

248 / museum

Out past Xian, last year in China.. sorry, can't remember 

where, but a good museum

oddly, people had left money at this group

of sculptures

some lovely pieces, or were they copies?

the real deal, I'd say

am thinking these were from burial sites, along the Silk Road,

could they be Scythian? The dry air & sand kept some artifacts

in amazingly good condition, I recall from reading

 all Sir Aurel Stein's books.

247 / edits

Was checking some camera cards, & saw again how I edit

differently at different times:

here are more from my Silk Road trip last year

above is near the end of the Wall

getting into the desert areas

& one of the great very old trees in

the garden of the Forbidden palace

in Beijing

246 / distant

Find it strange that the moon can look so much larger

with the camera zoom,

while the fluke of a whale doesn't -

even though its closer, with the zoom at full stretch

- its always a thrill to see them, they are heading south again

this was a section of the arc of a sunset rainbow

all on the same evening