Indeed, and the weather has cooperated nicely for the last several
years. There was a bit of a sprinkle in the morning hours but it
cleared off wonderfully just in time for the food and photography.
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> Nice record of your outing, before the bedlam began. It looks like an ideal
> place for such a gathering.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:39 PM
> Subject: [OM] The Glendenning's Garden
>
>
>> For the past several years on Memorial Day weekend we venture northward
>> to the vicinity of Glen's Falls**, New York to visit with friends who
>> have a very large extended family. My task, apart from eating all the
>> wonderful goodies they prepare for a big family/neighborhood picnic, is
>> to do group portraits of the extended family. Parents, children and
>> grandchildren now number about 25. Since it's such a big affair the
>> preparation is a lot of work. Consequently, my wife and I go early to
>> help out.
>>
>> But all is not work and our friends have a beautiful garden in the back
>> yard. Before all the family and friends arrived I got a chance to
>> wander the garden and took a few shots of flowers and lawn with my
>> favorite being the orange poppies. I hadn't realized my 80-200/2.8
>> Tokina had such nice bokeh at 200mm. Also, the first shot is a first
>> for me. A hungry Pileated Woodpecker who was knocking finger size
>> chunks of wood out of an old, dead pine tree. It took a while but I
>> eventually got close enough to him for a decent shot at 200mm.
>>
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Glendenning%27s_Garden/>
>>
>> ** For you James Fennimore Cooper fans, Glen's Falls is near the
>> headwaters of the Hudson River and the waterfalls there are the location
>> from "The Last of the Mohicans" where Natty Bumppo and friends are
>> hiding from the Hurons after escaping a massacre. There is indeed a
>> cave under the falls which is now known as "Cooper's Cave". And, of
>> course, there is a local craft brewery there by the same name where we
>> picked up the beer and a trailer load of ice. :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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