If I hurry, I may just get our Independence Day weekend ranch trip blogged before the end of the month!! :-/ Let me preface this initial post by saying that I have spent this week learning something in Photoshop CS6, and it’s been a booger of a problem to conquer. I’m finally most of the way there. The problem I’ve been working on is this: Part A) create a watermark, Part B) create an action to apply the watermark to photos, Part C) learn how to batch edit to apply the watermark to multiple photos all in one step, and the most intractable, Part D) figure out how to apply the watermark on the photos in the same location regardless of size or orientation. I’ve watched several videos, several times, and have conquered everything but Part D. I’ll win this one, though, I know I will. >:-)
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Wednesday was our departure day, and since Paul came home before noon, we were able to leave early enough that we had the unusual luxury of some extra time to sight see on the way. The first stage of the journey is always just get-through-the-city and hope for diminishing traffic as we leave this great urban center of teeming humanity. Being the start of a holiday weekend, it remained fairly constant, but nothing like the I10 once we headed north toward Payson.
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Our first side-trip was to mosey off the main highway between Payson and Forest Lakes and pull off where the sign said there was a beautiful vista. We had no idea what awaited us, but boy were we happy when we hopped out of the van and made for the edge of the cliff!! What a glorious scene spread before us, in astonishing jewel tones overshadowed by dramatic thunder clouds already dropping their moisture as they crossed the Mogollon Rim! What a gift to be there just at that time, on that day, to see such loveliness in God’s masterful creation.
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Not much farther along the road, we exited again to take a quick look at Woods Canyon Lake. It was already filling up with happy camping families, and we saw many fishing poles and some canoes and swimmers as well. We spent only a few minutes, under half an hour, enjoying the beauty of the lake and the forested shoreline, before we went on our merry way again. I do hope we can get back there for a really thorough explore of the entire lake, there is much, much more to see.
