Congratulations! Sounds like quite a week and a significant personal achievement. I look forward to your pics. I'm not familiar with Gray's Lily, but I'm an avid gardener and a wildflower fan, so I'm anxious to see this speciment. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wow. What a week. > > Got some good photography done, lots of biking and quite a bit of > hiking. Pictures to follow soon. > > Monday & Tuesday we bicycled. Monday on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It's a > totally different way of experiencing the Parkway. Highly recommended if > you can handle the hills. > > Wednesday we hiked the Profile Trail on Grandfather Mountain all the way > up top Calloway Peak. The goal of this week's trip was mainly plant and > flower macro photography but even so I was surprised to find that I used > the Sigma 180/3.5 macro for 100% of my shots on Wednesday. The big find > of the day: Gray's Lily. It's a very rare endangered species found only > on a few mountains in the southeast. Lisa spotted them and I got quite a > few good shots. The hike was a killer, though (with a pack loaded with > camera gear) and my quadriceps hurt like hell the next day. Not a good > omen for Saturday's big event... > > The Blood, Sweat and Gears century! 100 miles of biking with 13,000+ > feet of climb. This year I made it all the way up Snake Mountain -- a > FIVE MILE climb, half of which is around 8% grade and the last quarter > mile of which is an 18% grade -- without walking or even "serpentining" > through the steepest part. (Of course, I nearly fell off the bike at the > rest stop at the top...) > > Way too much to describe here (gluttons for punishment will get it in my > blog) but a very positive week. Possibly other good developments which I > won't even mention here for fear of jinxing anything. > > Photos next... > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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