My brother Dan is visiting and he brought some new pictures captured with a game camera taken on the farm where I grew up. I find this technology fascinating. The camera switches from visible light to infrared depending on the time of day (Game Scouting Camera).
I bought Cindy a Coolpix P6000 for Mother’s Day. Some husbands get pressured into giving diamonds by those horrid television ads, but I give a present that shows I really care. Just wait – this is so cool – you will see. So, because it will eventually be her camera, I decided the first pictures [...]
My brother Dan is an engineer, but he has a unique hobby. He develops wildlife habitats. The “riparian” is a seventeen-acre plot developed on a farm Dan and a couple of my relatives own in Iowa. Dan hunts there some, but mostly just enjoys the challenge of restoring the habitat and watching wildlife. His new [...]
I get a lot of ideas for educational applications from my own learning needs. We have been in the midst of a serious flood threat in the Red River (Fargo, Grand Forks, and surrounding communities). This is not the first time for us. We were here for the flooding of Grand Forks in 1997. I [...]
Questions: Approximately when was this picture taken? What are the men doing? Where is the activity taking place? Several years ago Cindy was awarded a Teaching American History grant. I sometimes get to tag along on her projects. One of the things I remember as an emphasis was providing students the opportunity to practice the [...]
Our kids bought me a scanner for my 60th birthday. This was some months ago and it took some time to get it ordered and delivered and for me to find some time to get it put together. It is a Canon CanoScan 8800F and it has an adapter for scanning slides. It does occur [...]
When I was a kid, we subscribed to Life magazine. According to Wikipedia, Life offered its last issue on April 20, 2007. I must say I hadn’t noticed. I guess many of us have moved on to other media. The Life collection of images has historical value and now Google is providing all of us [...]
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