Colleen Easley lives in Olympia, WA with her husband Dale and 2 cats. Photography has been her hobby for 40 years. Currently she is working on a 365 project which requires that she take at least one photo every day and publish it to her blog. You may follow her on Twitter and/or Facebook by clicking the links below. To see all the photos of her 2010 project, click the link below under LINKS.
03.15.10I got out of the hotel twice today. In the mid-afternoon Cheryl Zachery and I went to Providence Hospital to visit Peg Stout and deliver the prayer ribbons we had assembled for her. (See yesterday’s article.) By early evening it was looking like we’d have a beautiful sunset so I decided to head out with my camera.
Friends had left me the keys to their car since they are out on the trail working a couple checkpoints for the Iditarod. The car had been snowed in for the past week, but by today there had been enough melt that I decided to give it a try. It was a bit hard to get it over the snow berm that had developed behind it, but after 3 attempts I finally got it out of the parking spot. I knew it needed gas so I immediately headed to the closest gas station. After filling up I had only traveled a couple miles towards town before the Low Tire Pressure light came on. pulled it into the closest service station to get air. The front right tire was very low. I couldn’t get it to fill so I was suspecting the air was leaking out between the tire and rim. After about five attempts, I broke down and called my son, Kevin, who works at American Tire here in Anchorage. He had me roll forward about a half turn, removed the valve stem so it would fill quicker and we had it filled in no time. It’s nice to have a tire man in the family – especially when I’m out of town!
About that sunset – it was absolutely amazing. The mountains turned a beautiful pink and the western sky went vivid orange. But did I get a picture – no, I was trying to pump up a tire! After getting the car running again I still had an errand for Iditarod to do at Office Depot plus I figured I should take Kevin and my grand daughter out for dinner. We ended up at the Dairy Queen near to the Office Depot. I still had no photo for the day, so I opted for a picture of Kevin and Savanah in the restaurant.
By the time I got back to the hotel it was 9:30 p.m. What an adventure! Rob, if you’re reading this, I think the tire is O.K. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow to see if looks like its still holding air.
Nikon D90
with Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S ED VR II Zoom Lens
at 18mm, 1/60s, f/3.5, ISO 200, built in flash.
Savanah and Kevin Easley
