Sometimes I wish I had a camera and lens like this.
Yesterday was such a day.
Let's just say, however, that the huge lens which captures unbelievable close-ups, would still serve for a small percentage of my photography passion.
Lugging one of those monsters around when we go out on hikes is the last thing I'd want to do.
My own camera and its 3-in-1 lens is heavy enough.
Still, it would have been so much fun yesterday pulling up alongside the road at the Kootenai Wildlife Refuge, setting up the camera and tripod and just snapping away at the huge geese population, complemented by a few white swans.
Cacophony hardly seems strong enough to describe the constant noise while we walked a trail to the south along Deep Creek.
Those geese wanted the world to know their every move, and they were moving a lot, in what seemed to be an orchestrated schedule.
A few times a pair or a trio would fly close enough for me to snap a picture.
Most of the time, however, we simply walked, looked, stopped and listened as the noise level would build up from time to time in a few ponds far out in the field from our trail.
Once again, it was a lovely experience walking on bare ground with hiking shoes.
Bill and I have outdone ourselves this week pointing that pickup toward Bonners Ferry and logging hundreds of footsteps while enjoying the early spring vibrance at or around the refuge.
We have not been alone in the human department either. Once again, yesterday cars were pulling in and out of the parking lots with mostly people of our age either returning from or heading out on their own hikes.
It's been great, to say the least.
Today we won't go to the refuge cuz it's a day pretty much filled with all things Sandpoint.
I have a 55th-year Sandpoint High Class of 1965 reunion meeting this afternoon.
Plus, it's a two-T-shirt day.
Of course, ZAGmania is a winter-long epidemic in our town like all the others around the region.
So, I'm wearing my ZAGS T-shirt UNDER my "We are Sandpoint" long-sleeved shirt.
The SHS Bulldog girls basketball team takes on Burley this afternoon at 5:15 p.m. PST
Daily Bee sports editor Dylan Greene wrote a nice advance feature with numerous team and coach perspectives.
We'll be listening or maybe purchasing a monthly subscription to stream the game from anywhere in the world by starting with the following link:
Cost is $10.99 a month or $69.99 for a year. More specific link for tonight's game:
GO, BULLDOGS!!!!
After that game, the first T-shirt will come off, and the ZAGS shirt will take over.
Tonight's game against a tough San Francisco will begin at 8 p.m. PST on ESPN2.
GO, ZAGS!!!
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