BBQ at Kristen's

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -800

Kristen invited a bunch of Linux hackers over to her farm for a barbeque this
weekend. Since I had just bought a new lens for my XTi (28-135mm with image
stabilizer, same as Jason's) I figured this would be a great opportunity to
try out the new lens on the animals apt to be wandering around her farm. Last
year she had a few chickens; since then, she had acquired geese, turkeys and
ducks. The geese mostly just wandered around, but come dusk I saw an amazing
thing--the turkeys gathered around a garbage can next to an apple tree. One
by one, the turkeys would jump first on to the garbage can and then into the
tree. Apparently turkeys like to sleep in trees. Only one fell out. The
party went late, so I borrowed a tripod and took a few poorly focused pictures
of the night sky and light pollution.