Return to Reality

My husband and I just returned from a two week vacation to the east coast: visiting my son and his family and touring Cape Cod. Personally I thought we managed to skip the so-called bad weather - everywhere we went, people were spouting the words: it's so hot here! We didn't think it was that bad - it was just the 'moist-ness' of it all and that really wasn't that bad either.

Driving thru the eastern states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts was beautiful. I don't want to knock it because it was a great change from the west coast, however, we Californians are so used to to the 'open' spaces where you drive along and actually SEE the area and the landscapes changing. Not so back there. What you SEE is the beautiful greenery of the trees along the extremely clean roadsides mile after mile. It's refreshing at first, but then, it's like, hey, I want to see something! Anything! A house, possibly a lake, or ?? whatever, but you can't.

And the signage - holy moly - not good! First you see a sign telling you the right direction with the posted mileage to get there. Then you come upon a fork in the road and there's no more signage! Very aggravating to say the least. They also have alot of rotaries or if you were in France they would be called 'arrondissemonts'.

However, I did take my trusty 20 lb Minolta and I did shoot some B&W film of Cape Cod scenes in: Hyannis, Plymouth, Nantucket, Newport, and Provincetown (or P-Town)! I only have 2 rolls of B&W, and the rest are color digital photos. Actually the Minolta I used this trip was an SRT 101 Minolta that a good friend of mine gave me. It belonged to his father. It worked very well for a while and then the mirror got locked in the up position. But after a few gentle nudges it came back to the down position! And then I didn't think there would be THAT much difference between a
50mm lens and a 58mm lens - but yes there is more than I imagined. I'm so used to the 50mm capturing a 'whole' scene - I've never used anything close to it. I would usually step up to a zoom lens. I've learned a lesson. Luckily I had a wide angle lens that did the trick.

More later!