Talk about antiquated: daylight savings time should be abolished. Governments need to let us leave our clocks set on standard or DST and then leave us be. In the 21st Century there is no need to be changing our clocks every spring and fall.

I am really worn out after cleaning the house, washing the rugs, pruning the fruit trees, adding a rounded edge to Laurie’s study desk, doing 3 weeks of French homework (I’m still 3 weeks behind), and buying ingredients to make a pot of my NM gumbo. Losing an hour of sleep tonight will not help me recover.

The sky was overcast all day, which was nice for pruning trees, but it made the light flat for photographs. Thus I used HDR for the photos today. HDR is high dynamic range imaging where you take at least 3 exposures (under exposed, properly exposed and over exposed) and merge the images to create a more dynamic range in the image.