From central Kansas                                     2017 Apr 14

Hello Everybody,

I spent January, February, and March near Tallahassee camping in the
Apalachicola National Forest with my Israeli friend Michal Krell. She
had just retired, sold her house in Miami, and move aboard her newly
purchased truck camper full-time, so we had plenty of electrical,
carpentering, and mechanical projects to upgrade her camper and truck.
The Apalachicola NF is in some ways like a bit of the west, a really
large area of public land criss-crossed with many little dirt roads and
occasional clearings for free camping. One of our main campsites was off
of Bog Hole Road, aptly named for the dozens of huge puddles (almost
small ponds) in the road -- we soon got used to these and the spots of
deep sand which needed four wheel drive.

As the projects were finishing up, we started traveling around to the
nearby birding locations -- one of them, St. Marks NWR is a major
location for Florida, and that entire area along the Gulf coast has
dozens of known birding hotspots.

I got one especially pleasing photograph, of one Great Blue Heron
chasing another; although one wing-tip was clipped at the edge of the
frame, fortunately I was able to use Arthur Morris's photoshop
techniques to reconstruct the missing tip and rescue the photo.

I'm slowly wandering from Florida toward the western Dakotas, camping
and birding along the way as usual. Michal is visiting family in Israel
for five weeks, and expects to rendezvous with me in the grasslands when
she returns. EV is flying from Portland to western North Dakota for a
week camping and grassland birding in June, and then I plan to head
north again with Michal for a few months in northern Alaska and Canada.

The server address is:     http://john-armitage.com

The new slideshow (at the top of the list) is: 17_01-03_Jan-Mar_FL.exe
and the equivalent in .zip format for Mac users. This email is also
repeated there in .txt format.

Boilerplate follows: Remember, these large files may take several
minutes to download; while waiting to get a really fast uplink in Santa
Cruz, Joey has migrated me to the commercial host ICDSoft, which will
greatly speed things up for those of you who have a fast download
connection. There has been a myriad of opportunities for typographic
errors in putting up all the older slideshows; please let me know if you
run into any problems.

If you can easily change your screen brightness, you might optimize it
for the best viewing. ......................

NEW: FOR MAC USERS there is a .zip file to download, and here is how to
use it (please let me know if you have any problems):

go to    http://john-armitage.com/   and click on the blue line for a
list of slideshows

click on a zip file for a slideshow

after downloading, open the zip file

open the extracted folder which will be in the same folder and have the
same name as the zip file (likely in Downloads)

make sure the jpeg files are sorted by filename, not by date, size. etc.
select the first jpg file and then all of the jpg files, using Cmd+A
(select with this method only, to keep the files in numeric order)

use the space-bar for a Quick View slideshow

click the tiny circle with the backslash through it near the upper left
corner for full screen (in Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra)

don't click the menu bar, it will disappear

use the right and left arrow keys to navigate

use Escape to exit full screen

optional: delete the zip and/or extracted folder
................................................. Each browser is a
little different, but generally you can either choose OPEN to view the
show once, or choose SAVE TO DISK and then OPEN if you want to have it
your hard drive for future re-viewing.

Right-Arrow or Right-Click or SpaceBar will advance to the next picture.
Left-Arrow or Left-Click will return to the previous picture. Esc will
end the show at any time; use Esc if the show ever seems stuck.

If you would like any of the individual images, perhaps to print, just
let me know. If you don't want to get any more emails like this one in
the future, please let me know. If you have friends who might be
interested, I'll be happy to add them to my email list and they can
download the slideshows if they have a broadband internet connection.
None of this is commercial or copyrighted, the more who enjoy the
pictures, the better.

Regards, John Armitage 1-970-250-6080 john@qued.com