Volunteering

Well the Special Olympics didn't need any help.
I also volunteered for helping at the local food bank, to no avail.
But I did get a response from the PIT or "Passport in Time" program.
The project I applied for is a week in the Frank Church Wilderness.
Wilderness = no power tools. They aim to pack our supplies in to rebuild a cabin
in the Warm Springs drainage. Right next to the Shower Bath Hot Springs.
The same one that I struggled to find as the trail is not maintained on the lower stretch since the fire.
That's where I found the cougar that had been killed by the fire and immortalized it with a picture on my website.
Click on the picture to go to the PIT website, click "current projects at the top, and then Idaho to see a current view of the cabin.

Otherwise life drags on here with unemployment reigning.
I've even sent for my college records to see what I need to finish my Forest Fire Science degree.

The snow on the valley floor is about gone, with mud and trail closures next.
The Fox still drops by for a snack in the evenings.
I saw it dig up an egg from a cache under a tree in the snow. ( I don't give it an egg every time it shows up so as not to spoil him)







See ya"ll

Franti is comming to town

Well glory be, Mr. Franti is coming back to town.
He was the best at 48 Straight last year, and now he's coming to perform for the Special Olympics in Sun Valley next week.
I have volunteered to help at the events and hope it's a gig where I can be a photographer.
Either way, it's a way to do good will.
The Pic links back to my 48 Straight album.

The slow trip through Winter.

Well Winter is here in all its glory. Hah, the mountain didn't open till late because of lack of snow this yaer. We got the snow just before Christmas and things were good for the holidays.
But now in January, the weather has warmed up and been in the 40's .
Jobs are scarce, and doesn't look good for the immediate future.
C'est la Vie as they say.

Any catching up on this blog, I have a couple pictures of Fall to share before I get to the Winter things.

I repaired the computer, ( 1 of the memory sticks was bad and Micron down in Boise did me good with replacement), after days of troubleshooting.





Then there was the firewood endeavor, which went well.














And a parting shot of when the ground was still brown.
The sheepherders horses hanging out at the headwaters of the Salmon River below Galena Summit.










The Blogfox is still coming around. That's over a year now.


Cya ya'll later. Happy Holidays. Chins up!!

Kitchen Fox

Well the days are filled with work and firewood . The Fall colors are already thinning, and the nights,( or mornings), are right at freezing.
Being near the highway , on Sunday, it's full of firewood haulers, sightseers, and people bringing their boats down from the lakes for the winter.
My main computer went tits up this weekend and I've done all I can to no avail. New Motherboard is the prognosis. Finally got the laptop on my wi-fi net though. A newer wireless adapter lets me go outside with it :C)
Having a couple computers setup helps, but I have no card reader in this one. The latest pictures from this week are in Limbo.
Well I'm off to see what the warranty on that motherboard is.

Basin Butte link.

Well it looks like I forgot to add the link to the photo set of Passport in Time.
Click on the picture please.

Passport In Time

Well it's certainly been a while since I posted, but here's some of the latest.

I volunteered for a forestry project called, "Passport In Time".
A group of people met and worked for a week restoring a USFS building, this time it was the Basin Butte Lookout near Stanley, Idaho. Less than an hour from my place. The first day we met at the Stanley museum at 8 am, where I got the deer and Sawtooths shot.
About 12 people from around the US spent a 5 day week at the lookout removing the old catwalk and rebuilding it and refurbishing the structure.
The smoke from fires in California moved in the second day and obscured most of the view.
It made for some colorful sunsets.

I'm still having issues with Flickr since they freely handout our pictures for commercial use.
Haven't seen the Blogfox in a while. With Summer finally here, the human traffic keeps it shy.
The Braun Brothers Reunion was last weekend and the whole family attended and survived.
If I can find more room online for photos I'll post that experience too.

48Flicker link figured out

So I got the link to flicker figured now. Stupid me for wasting time trying to do it there way.
Anyhoo, the link to 48 chucks picks links to a flicker account where it turns out I already had an account and had posted concert pics 2 years ago. Huh?
Then I remember signing up at Kodak pic sharing site for a disposable way for me to show the show pics for free which I forgot about. Kodak changed to flickr, and I can now link to any photo I allow to be public domain. But that also allows anybody else to download the photo and use it for any use but commercial. So that makes me wary and will try harder to get back to website revamped. So here's the link to the Chuck's 48 Straight Picks , which at 120 photos,(don't need to look at them all) are 10% edited from all 1200 pics. I'll get them down to 10, you can help with comments. Link to Chuck's sets.

Ciao Y'all

Well, it's a week later. I fed the blogfox, ( that's what I'm calling the critter), and me, and figured out how to post picture albums.
Even with all the flicker bashers in the pro photo scene, I figured I had to start somewhere, and cheap. Until I get up to reworking my own website, arppworks.com , flicker and blogger will work.
And even with all learned in photoshop over the last few weeks, it turns out Irfanview, the tiny, versatile, and FREE program trumped photoshop again.
Now it's down to figuring out how to link the pictures on flicker to this blog, and the ball will start rolling.
Things like uploading 32mb of pictures on 26k dialup can about bring tears to your eyes. no lol

Well winter lingers on here, 6 inches of snow yesterday, below zero at night, and around 32 in the day. "Spring" in Idaho is the worst season, ice and mud.
The blogfox likes raw eggs, carrying them off somewhere, (a den?), and then comes back. It ate a couple of the dog biscuits I had from last year, but then buried the rest in the snow. Must be full or picky. I wish it would eat a few of the cats around here. :C)
Well it's off to flicker to deal with the 120 photos uploaded last night, at least hopefully uploaded,(it took hours) .
It'14 degrees and not snowing at 11 pm 03/30/2008
Chuck

As I start this blog, we have company watching.
It's been dropping by most evenings to catch a handout.
I'm still editing photos from 48Straight and experimenting with my new wide format printer.
Weather at 8pm mt is 32 and light snow.

Opening Comments

Well all, howdy From Idaho'
I thought I'd try my hand at a blog.
This would eliminate sending zipfiles to everyone.
Maybe I'll get creative writing. ( or at least write, lol )