July was a relatively stress free month. Richard was retired by then and there were no health or administrative crises for grandma.

I spent some time experimenting with photography. In particular I was testing out settings for the eclipse. According to one source I found online you can practice your camera settings for an eclipse by using the full noon time sun for the partial phase using a filter and a full moon for totality. I have to say that those suggestions worked for my camera. You can see the eclipse pictures I took in my Twelve months of 2017-August post. I rather liked some of the pictures from my experimenting phase.

Mid-day sun through maple tree, using filter.

Full moon

Mid-day sun through pine trees, with filter.

Mid-day sun.

As always July seems to cry out for at least one picture from the beach:

We went to Mount Rainier for our annual trip in July since we had our Ecliptic Trip planned for August. As always it was beautiful and the earlier time meant that we got to see the avalanche and glacier lilies that are usually done blooming by August.

Avalanche Lilies

Veronica-aka Speedwell

Bear Grass

Wooly Marmots discussing territory.

Mount Rainier

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