{"id":176,"date":"2012-09-24T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:01:59","slug":"on-a-lake-with-a-camera-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/on-a-lake-with-a-camera-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Lake with a Camera and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>Maybe I was too quick to squash all of autumn last week, when I wrote that it reeked of decline and death and dragged me into depression. A boat ride in September was just what I needed to change my gloomy outlook on the fall.<\/p>\n

It was a brilliant afternoon when my friend, Barb, and her family took me, and our friend, Liz, out on Cayuga Lake on a pontoon boat. I could spend a million words trying to describe the magnificence of that afternoon on the lake. But I had a camera with me and it captured so much that I might have overlooked or forgotten.<\/p>\n

Even mud, falling leaves and heavy grey clouds look different when viewed through a camera. Maybe that\u2019s what I will do to get through my bleak times: keep a camera between my eyes and the awesome wintering world around me.<\/p>\n

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Maybe I was too quick to squash all of autumn last week, when I wrote that it reeked of decline and death and dragged me into depression. A boat ride in September was just what I needed to change my gloomy outlook on the fall. It was a brilliant afternoon when my friend, Barb, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t