A lobster boat steams out of the mouth of the river just as the sun pops out from behind Eastern Point this morning (compare point of rising further north -- to the left -- two weeks ago on the eve of the summer solstice).
We were planning to catch a little extra sleep this morning, but yet another eye-catching Down East sunrise drew us from our bed to the terrace to capture this dazzling digital image of a lobsterman setting off at the crack of dawn to inspect his pots along the rocky coast.
Babe takes a sip at Goomp's chrorinated waterhole early morning. There's no accounting for taste, or maybe he just likes the IDEA of drinking from the pool.
The Carnival of the Cats #67 is being hosted this week by Watermark's undercover agents Spike and Boo, AKA Emperor of Orange and KeeKee. 'Don't know what this means, but both the C of C and Cotillion's July 4th Gala were briefly at the top of The Truth Laid Bear's "Top Posts" feature this morning. The Ecosystem moves in mysterious ways.
Update: A horrific day of blogging, and who knows why? Was it Goomp's super-slow computer (his local geeks are scheduled to make a house call Friday to take a look-see), TypePad having another "sluggish" day, or the internet itself beset with some sort of spam wars or whatever? No way of knowing, but it took us all day to get this one post published and up to snuff. Talk about having the wind taken out of one's sails. We were still never able to get a trackback to the Carnival of the Cats. Perhaps another day?
Gorgeous sunrise (and the shot on the table).
Weirdness is: it took me two hours to post a measly article this morning. Either my server was into the gin or TypePad's hiding something.
I took it out on SBC, to little avail, but things improved when I swapped ends with the Enet cable. ???
Posted by: Mr.Kurtz | July 06, 2005 at 12:11 AM
Sissy, you take some of the most beautiful photographs.
How do you do the thin black border/little bitty drop shadow thing? I really like that effect. Is that built into your blog template or is it something you do to your jpegs?
Posted by: Elisson | July 06, 2005 at 09:54 AM
Mr. Kurtz -- I checked over at TypePad, and they were up to something they acknowledged might slow things down.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | July 06, 2005 at 02:14 PM
Elisson: Thanks for the nice comments. Here's my secret re black borders with little bitty drop shadows:
Using Photoshop:
1. Select all, cut and paste your image, giving you a new layer.
2. With this new layer -- called "Layer 1" in the Layers Menu (assuming you know what I'm talking about at this point) -- highlighted, right click on "Blending Options" and in succession check "Stroke" (for the black border) and "Outer Glow" for the itty bitty drop shadow. You'll have to play around with numbers and colors to get just the look you want.
That sounds awfully complicated. 'Hope it helps.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | July 06, 2005 at 02:18 PM