while in escalante, i primarily shot film. It is rather unusual for me to shoot color film, but i did it down there and had a lot of fun with it, in case you couldn’t tell. I did shoot some digital pics as well, but not as many as i should have, probably. You see, i bought an s500 recently (i’ve only been ogling the S line of canon digitals for 2 years now, so i guess it was expected). The reason for buying the s500 as opposed to a more-featured, perhaps less-expensive, camera was that i wanted a camera that i wouldn’t even think twice about taking with me. If i have to think, “ooh, do i really want to carry that” i won’t have it with me enough and the s500 is nice and small. i also checked newegg.com every single day to wait until it dropped to a price i could justify. Anyway, after all that, the case that i bought for it falls off the belt of my camera pack, as i found out while hiking the grand canyon, and so i have been putting it in the pocket of my water pack when i am hiking, which means i have to take off the water pack every time i want to use it. Grrr! So, i need to find a new case for it.

all that aside, i did get a few shots in escalante on the digital and, since Iknitoo from the Knitter’s Review Forums asked about the digital camera, i figured i better post some of those pictures, too.

These flowers were so neat: i love how life in the desert pokes its head out wherever it can:

i think this picture of a scrumptious desert mushroom was taken on “The Gulch” hike along the Burr Trail. Hike names are approximate as we were using a close to worthless hiking guide-book. (hint: if a hiking book indicates that you should “turn when you see the fence with tumbleweeds pressed up against it”, DO NOT buy it!)

chmney rock:

and, from the last day, in oh-not-near-enough-light, the sunrise during a storm:

this picture does not really do it justice, but it does give you an idea of how much the size changed! i ended up washing it 3 times! i thought i was finished at 2 times, but when i got up the next day i was not happy with the amount of stitch definition still present, so in it went again. Let me tell you, i have some extremely clean, but fuzzy, jeans now.

i used cascade 220, charcoal, for the base and the handles up to the grips; noro kureyon, 82?, for the body and the grips.

you may ask, “why on earth are you excited that it is monday?” Well, let me clue you in, it is PHOTO LAB DAY!! Yes, those 5 rolls of black and white film that have been grumping at me for neglecting them while having color film (!!!) developed are finally going with me to the darkroom tonight. heehee. they are dancing in my bag as we speak, i am sure, although they mysteriously stop dancing whenever i peek in there, those sneaky things!

on another, less happy note, i finally got my fmb felted. Now you may ask, “Why is this not a happy note?” and i will forgive you your extraordinary inquisitiveness today and tell you that it is sad because my sister was not able to come over and felt with me. She had to go on a business trip and was very busy getting ready for it so she could not come over. Since she would not be able for quite some time to come over, i ended up felting all by myself. now, before you feel too bad for me, she is going to come over when she is ready to felt her bag and so it will still be an enjoyable time AND i will have a better idea of how to felt her bag as she is using the exact same brands of yarn as i did, although different colors.

i am, as they say, “on one” today. but keep it a secret, please…