Ephemerals

Hey Everyone!

I hope everyone has been enjoying the delicious spring weather, I certainly have. It’s actually been hot here a few days. I’m afraid that it’s going to be an extremely hot and dry summer.

I’ve been super busy. School, mostly, but a few other fun things too. For example, last weekend we went to OKC to see my family. We ate at this awesome place called Big Truck Tacos. I highly recommend it! We cooked delicious meals all week long, too: taco salad, delicious wraps, chicken and black bean tostadas, Greek pasta, and mushroom sauce tortellini! So good!

Right now I’m sitting in the botany workroom scanning a Nikon Repair Book and trying out the scanner for some film. I would like to develop my own B&W film over the summer, but I also like having digital copies of my pictures, so I’m trying the scanner out. I think it will be good enough by looking at the scans I’ve made so far. Mostly I like B&W film for prints, so having it digitally isn’t that big of a deal.

Mr. Minolta update: He’s still working thanks to his post-surgery, rehab exercises. I found a battery for him, and the light meter seems to work. I don’t really like it though, it doesn’t give me much flexibility with aperture/shutter speed settings. It uses this strange “EV” system. It picks one or two shutter speeds for each aperture setting, and won’t pick any shutter speed below 1/30s or above 1/250s. Weird.

Alesia and I went on an awesome trip to the Ozark Mountains in eastern Oklahoma yesterday. We went with a group of grad students and our professor from Field Botany and his wife (and his dog, Bonnie!). We had a great time seeing the spring ephemerals. Here’s a selection of what we saw yesterday:

Viola pedata Bird’s Foot Violet
Bird's Foot Violet