A Lazy Day

Today was a lazy day.  It's an interesting characterization considering this distance I covered walking was thirteen and two tenths miles, just a little over half marathon distance.  I caught myself noting to Rory that I hoped my roommates and I would be able to get off our lazy asses and do something tomorrow just as I was wrapping up the daily distance.  I'm really not sure what to make of this characterization other than to say that the distance covered is not necessarily (anymore) the measure of how much gets done during a day.

I long to explore.  To strike out and see new things and have new adventures.  Today was the best day of my life, and I want the next one to be even better.  I took up the REI challenge to get outside and make the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend about more than conspicuous consumption.  It wasn't a boycott of Black Friday per se, but I did enjoy being out on my version of the trail as seen below.

Exploration in the Urban Wilderness

Once again, it was a glorious fall day, and my afternoon jaunt carried me to the edge of Annapolis Harbor to take in yet another sunset.

Annapolis Harbor at Sunset, Google's take and the original

A panoramic mash-up is always my goal, but today Google delivered what they call a "stylized" version of the original photo, and the above collage is both the original shot (bottom) with the Google version (top).  I've become pretty successful at getting the software to make the panoramic view, but ever now and then I get stylized instead.  By all appearances, you only get one google take on a particular photo (stylized, best smiles, animation, or panoramic), and I have not yet been able to detect a pattern for when the software goes with stylized vice panoramic shot.  Today was a rare day where I didn't get a panoramic mash-up. Yesterday's post didn't show any either, but they did finally come through later in the evening after posting. I'll go ahead and post the now for continuity sake.

Spa Creek Panorama from Thanksgiving Day

This view of Spa Creek is pretty nice, but I do like the photo from yesterday's post that captured St. Mary's Church just a little bit better.

Fleet Feet Annapolis Turkey Trot 5K Fun Run Crowd Panoramic shot

This one shows how good the software is in marrying up complex shapes including most of the people. The lighting is not the best, but once again the technology is really amazing, and I suspect it gets better with every use.  

It was another great day, and I look forward to another tomorrow.