Map time!

I have spent a little time on the Maps page recently. It has been nice to look through all of my old pictures, but also a little sad. One thing is for sure – I have a ton of photographs to sort through. There are plenty more to delete. I use Picasa which I really like for organizing, but Google has of course discontinued it, because that is what they do to cool products. I am rather passively searching for a replacement. Ideally one with more editing features that isn’t too complicated. Anyways, the Ile de France, India and Nepal, and Spain maps are now live. Each pin leads to a gallery. All photos are unedited. Hopefully at some point I will become skilled at image enhancement. They aren’t necessarily my best or favorite pictures, just some that I selected as representative of the areas. Looking through all of the photographs was surprisingly tedious. My goal is to have all of the maps done within a month or so.

Restaked.

The above picture shows a beautiful building site punctuated by a multitude of small orange stakes marking the boundaries of the house and garage. There is a chance that the footers will get dug tomorrow, but I’m not getting my hopes up. But it sure would be great if it happened!

I spent a bit of time at the farm today, continuing to clean up the property and crush things with the tractor. The weather was perfect and it is nice the the ground is finally dry. The forecast for the next couple of weeks looks decent. The cold would pretty much seem to be gone.