Rest Week

This week is a training rest week. I tend to stretch the definition of "rest" week and sometimes get a little lazy. But that also keeps me from taking myself to seriously...and often it takes a whole week of not being serious to have an impact. So this morning I dropped Terry off at school and then headed to Ft Ord for an early morning ride. It was supposed to be a sprint workout--my favorite--but it didn't happen.

See, before I left the car I grabbed my little point and shoot camera and dropped it in the jersey pocket. And since I had it with me, I just had to use it. First I went to the fishing hole...

But I don't think there's been any fishies there for awhile. Then I cruised over to the old shooting range. No one has been shooting there for awhile either, but some pretty things grow there now...

Then I saw some art someone decided to add to the side of the building. Or at least someone thought it was art. Others likely have a different opinion...

And then there was an open door on the other side of the building. Why is it that you always look in an open door when passing by? Inside, light was streaming through a long-gone window...

All that to say I didn't really do my workout today. And I didn't mind at all.

Note: You can click on the photos to see them a bit bigger, and while you're looking at them nice and big, moving your mouse over the left or right hand side of the image will bring up an arrow so you can scroll through all the images in this post. A couple of these photos were edited with some photo-editing software called Color Efex Pro 3.0 by Nik Software. We are doing the 15-day free trial of it to see if it will be our Christmas present to ourselves.

Polaroiding

A few weeks ago Terry downloaded this fun little plug-in called Poladroid. All you have to do is drag and drop a photo onto the Polaroid camera icon and the process starts, just like an old school Polaroid. First an image pops up with a brown square on it. Then slowly over the next few minutes the image slowly "develops" and about 5 minutes later, you have an image that looks just like what would have come out of the instant camera. Don't feel like waiting 5 minutes? Click on the image and you can actually "shake it like a polaroid picture" by moving your mouse around and the picture actual develops faster! And you can set the preferences to put fingerprints on the border or to put dust on the pic. Its pretty cool. Unfortunately the Windows version isn't out yet...rumored to come out some time this month. Here are a few samples...Terry has more, including some cool ones from Surf City, but he and his computer with all of his pictures are at school right now.

And ultimately the point of this post was to see if I could post more than one image in the new blog...it was a pain in the old one.

Bonus Terry pic...because he's so cute.