Camped on State Trust Land at the extreme SE corner of Arizona          
              2020 February 10

Hello Everybody,

When I started getting emails asking 'John, are you OK?' I realized it
was past time for a new slideshow. The past nine months seem to have
covered a lot of ground with relatively few good photography
opportunities:
Texas-Colorado-Wyoming-Oregon-Idaho-Wyoming-Colorado-Texas-New
Mexico-Arizona.Two visits to the drip blinds at Cabin Lake, SE of Bend,
Oregon, provided the expected good chances for very close-up images. I
spent a couple of summer months in Oregon, often birding with EV, and a
couple of winter months camping near the Sabine River in the SE Texas
Piney Woods country, which had a lot of rainy and overcast weather and
just about no birds at that time of the year. This  prompted me to bail
out of Texas and come to SE Arizona where I knew I would find lots of
sun and wintering birds. I am really enjoying my solar panels soaking up
the sun all day long day after day, and the 'sky-island' scenery of this
part of Arizona, wide flat valleys surrounded on all sides by distant
beautiful mountain ranges.

My slideshows are roughly in chronological order. I've started labeling
them with more location anad date information: if there is no location
or date given then they're probably unchanged from the previous photo.

IF YOU CAN EASILY CHANGE YOUR SCREEN BRIGHTNESS, YOU MIGHT OPTIMIZE IT
FOR THE BEST VIEWING. It can make a big difference.

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

The new slideshow (at the top of the list) is:

19_04-12_Apr-Dec_TX-OR-AZ.exe

for Windows users, and the equivalent in .zip format for Mac users. This
email is also repeated there in .txt format.

Remember, these large files may take several minutes to download if you
do not have a very fast download speed.

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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)

press 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

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
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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