Hi everyone. It's Thursday, and time for Rain's Art and Dinner Date.
This week Rain's theme is greyscale.
Last week I met my walking friend and we walked around the 2 malls that are back to back in Newington (New Hampshire). It takes an hour to walk around them, and though usually not a very exciting walk, it works when there is snow or lots of mud on the ground. It also works when the tide is high at the beach. For most of the walk there are sidewalks, and usually, especially over at the bigger indoor mall, there is barely any traffic because much of the mall (like many indoor malls) is now empty.
I looked up and took this cloud photo which I then changed to greyscale. You might wonder why I was looking up and taking a photo, but there were a couple of bald eagles soaring overhead.
Next let me share the original photo, and since I was only using my phone, you can just make out one of the left hand side of the photo. In fact it looks more like a speck of dust.
I think it makes a cool photo of clouds though.
I cropped this photo a couple of times so you can see it is actually one of the eagles.
I wonder if this pair was the same pair or one of that pair's offspring that nests out on one of the small islands in Little Harbor that we've seen while boating. We have a decent size and rising bald eagle population here in New Hampshire, and although I don't see them on a regular basis, I do see them relatively frequently. (According to the NH Audubon Society website we have 80 breeding pairs.)
And some photos tell totally different stories whether they're in greyscale or in color.
Here's the side view of my yard Monday morning in black and white. (With the snow we had before the big storm Monday night and Tuesday.)
The black and white version is a cool picture, but it doesn't capture the color of the sunrise. It does make the morning feel colder than it actually was.
Here's the color version (not altered), as well as a couple of other sunrise photos, below.
I also made another loaf of bread this past week. This one is called pain de mie, and it is another white bread.
I seem to be in a white bread baking mode lately. I'm working backwards as I started with sourdough artisan breads several years ago. This bread was delicious and makes great sandwiches if you don't want something chewy.
I needed a covered pan to make this bread called a Pullman pan.
By covering the bread while baking you get a thin crust, as you can see on my loaf. I also found the backstory behind these pans interesting. They're called pullman pans because back in the day when train trips were popular, the chefs would bake their bread in these covered pans. The cover allowed the chefs to stack their rising loaves on top of each other simply by pulling the cover over the dough that was forming the loaf in the pan. This worked perfectly since train kitchens weren't exactly the roomiest of places.
That's it for me since this post is long enough. Have a great Thursday and for those of you who I only visit on Thursday, have rest of your week also.
