More fall - pic theme of the week?

  

Hello, Fall.

The calendar dates are conflicting, but either yesterday or today marks the autumnal equinox. Time for apples, apple pie, cider, warm days and brisk nights, bursts of red, yellow, orange and purple, and the promise of snow.

Green Power Plant in Syracuse?

http://www.esf.edu/newspubs/news/2006/08.08.biofuels.htm

http://www.esf.edu/newspubs/news/2006/08.10.commoncouncil.htm

Tunes for all

We've been talking about doing this for awhile, but this week there has been some major advances put out for stripping the DRM from our precious iTunes (so that we can play them on any computer).

So I set up a gmail acct for us all to log into, the username is stumpietunes@gmail.com, email me for the password.

Check it out, I sent a new tune in.

Picasa and memory lane

So I have discovered picasa will allow me to select photos and directly publish to the blog... This is pretty cool.

Soooo, here are some to take us all down memory lane.

The first one is from the SC backpacking trip. Mud, horses, Maple zigzaging after rabbit scents, rain, rain, and did I mention the rain?

Kevin practicing for Karate Kid 4, although he doesn't look serious enough...

The next picture is from the first Algonquin canoe trip that was "ambitious." 17 beaver dam crossings (actually 34 because we went back the same way) loons, solitutude...

And finally, the Halloween run at Green Lakes SP. I think that one was on our fridge at Planet 504 for a while.



 

MPV - multipurpose vehicle?

 

I was reading the latest Bicycling magazine which has an article about small cars that are friendly bike-carrying, and they mentioned the MINI. So I feel compelled to post this picture of Bonnie hauling a kayak from our August canoe trip. Ahh, canoeing... While I wouldn't drive excessively fast, or corner like I want to, it is duable. So are three bikes or three people and a weekends worth of backpacking gear (as long as one is willing to be somewhat (really) cramped.

However, I can't hose out the inside. You need a jeep or element (preferably in Galapogos Green) to do that. 

crazy dog

I don't know why this is playing on the weather channel web site- but its funny

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=3393&collection=videocoll8&from=vid_brws2&tab=3&nav=118

Heres a good stumpie post

Check out this map of solar energy available

Sometimes when I stop and look at the big picture I have to ask WTF are we doing? And those numbers are from using photovoltaic cells, the worst of the bunch!

This rant came from my big plans with Kevin to build a stirling engine generator in the silo. I love wikipedia.