Mostly Maine
1-2 shots bourbon – I use Split Rock
1-2 tablespoons maple syrup – Find maple syrup aged in bourbon casks (Split Rock has in stock)
Or, you can use Runamok Maple Cocktail Syrup (Maple Old Fashion) to give the drink a smoky flavor.
4-6 oz hot water
2-4 spritz orange bitters or smoked citrus bitters (Split Rock)
Lemon slice garnish
one or two cloves
Stir well
1/2 small lemon or 1/3 large lemon squeezed
Adjust bourbon to pain, maple syrup to sweetness and the rest to taste. Enjoy!
Going back in time, precovid, presurgery, pre, pre, pre.
A friend of a friend said ”If you haven’t visited Versailles, you haven’t been to France”. I don’t really agree with that. To me, the Chateau is just too over the top, too much of everything including too many visitors. But, after seeing all the gilt, finery, portraits, furniture, etc. you can start to understand how the French Revolution came to be and why so much of the royalty and nobles were destroyed. Too much hunger, disease and poverty will destroy, a lesson we never seem to learn. We are once again watching highly autocratic and centralized governments seize more and more power in Russia, China, the Mideast, south and central America and indeed in the US. Gilded toilets anyone?
So, maybe to understand France you do need to visit Versailles.
I visited Versailles once before, when I was 12 or 13. I don’t remember too much about the visit, but I do remember my Dad grumbling about the long trip to the Chateau from Paris. This time we took the metro and RER train, it as still a long, uncomfortable trip. ?
We decided to wander around the Marais in Paris on our first day. Not enough energy to do much else.
Enough said on that subject; although, I will add no more cutting. Ugh!
Reviewing my last flight for additional sunset pictures. I kind of like this one.
Emmeline’s boyfriend Oscar, created this video from our flight on July 18. Sorry, so far no shots of Oscar. Oh wait, here’s a non aviation picture taken by Anne Ferrard.
Plus an explosive ending, recommended by Nicholas, no more boring videos.
The GoPro’s are fair to good, but if you want to zoom in on a subject while editing, the lack of resolution is a real problem. In this video, I first reframed the shot of the grass field and then tried to zoom in on the seaplane. Less than optimal results. Take a look.
Yesterday I flew my first solo flight to Bethel since last year. I was able to shoot some pretty good video of the Androscoggin River at Bethel. I decided to give myself a one day deadline to shoot the video, edit it and upload it. I made it, but of course, I see things that I could have done better.
I’ve been working on this one off and on for several weeks. Color grading is not quite right, partially due to using both GoPro 8 and 9’s and partially because I don’t know what I’m doing. This video does a good job displaying the improved stabilization of the GP 9 when compared to the GP8. So why didn’t I use the GP9 more. It doesn’t send the display of what you are shooting to the iPhone, the GP8 does. Go figure, in some cases, the newer model has less capabilities than the older model.