Bridge View

A slightly different view of the mill; usually I'm photographing from the bridge,
but for today a view of the bridge as well.

Rainy Day at the Grist Mill

We headed out to the grist mill yesterday for the annual cider pressing event. (Grist mill photo just to the right of this post...it's the cover for my 2016 calendar.) I was expecting scant crowds because of the weather, but boy was I wrong! The line for cider extended from the mill across the covered bridge, shown in background of my photo from under the cedar tree. We got 2 inches of rain, which is a lot for one afternoon in drizzly Washington. An umbrella rain, as we say. We wimped out, skipped the cider, picked up the fresh ground winter wheat for our long-ferment, gluten-neutralized sourdough, and headed home. I'll pick up some cider at the store later on today.

July 22

Today we toured the Stanislaus River Parks, which are run by the Corp of Engineers.  This covered bridge at Knights Ferry, spanning 330 ft., is the longest west of the Mississippi.  If I photographed the inside of the bridge from one end, the light at the other end was just a dot in the photo.  Here we're close to the end of the bridge.  I had fun playing around in manual mode, controlling how much light to let in.