CDTA Route 18

Good morning! Happy Tuesday.

I got a spider plant from my parents yesterday, and I’m bringing it into the office. Kind of a dark and foggy morning though the moon was nice. Didn’t get out for my morning walk. I’ve just not feeling this week. Already the emails and dread is setting in. Maybe it’s just

Mostly cloudy and 39 degrees at the CDTA Route 18. ☁ Calm wind. The skies will clear around 11 am.

It was a nice holiday weekend, ⛵ spent camping up at Rensselaerville State Forest. I actually left on Friday morning for the Adirondacks but I swear there is still something wrong on my truck, as after a while on the road it gets all whallowy. Maybe it’s just the shock absorbers are bad — the ride has grown increasingly harsh — but I’m not getting any kind of rattle and my local shop took a good look at it. 👩‍🔧 My mechanic didn’t seem concerned but I am. I am chewing over taking it to the shop that put the lift kit on but I don’t want to spend money on it unless it’s absolutely necessary.

I think it actually was good I decided to Rensselaerville. 🍂 The leaves were close to perfect. But more then that it was super quiet up there. A two people who read my blog just randomly stopped by. 💬 Always fun to meet up with people in the woods. 🌲 But most of the weekend was quiet and colorful. Hiked about 20 miles around the various back roads and truck trails throughout the forest.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. ☔

What a really dark and gray morning today. The heaviest rain has stopped for now, but I’m sure that we might get more rain later on.

Cloudy, humid and damp this morning around 70 degrees. ☁️ It was raining pretty hard earlier this morning but now is just cloudy, taking the local in both due to the rain and because I’m feeling sore from the Lyme disease.

Between the rain and busy with work, 👣 it’s been tough to get the steps in the past few days. Plus today I’m just achy and sore. I did walk down to the library as I had work to do, and 👨‍💻 some work until dark. 🌧 Sat outside at the picnic table with the umbrella which keep the rain showers off me. All and all a pretty nice night. Saw a opossum and rabbit run across the sidewalk. Much better then the skunks I normally see. 💀 You see a lot after dark just sitting outside working.

The weekend forecast looks fairly decent, 😀 I am thinking about heading out of town — maybe not too far like Schoharie or another State Forest. Maybe just hammock camp. 🏕 The bugs aren’t likely too bad this time of year.  I don’t think the colors are changing that much up north yet. Weekend looks cool, especially Saturday but really clear. 😎 One idea would be to hike the Catskill Scenic Trail again or another is to hike part of Western Catskills like another part of Bearpen Mountain. 🐻 I would want to get out real early though to avoid the crowds.

One of the GIS projects I’ve been thinking about lately, ☁️ is how to remove clouds from aerial imagery such as captured from LANDSTAT or MODIS Terra/Aqua. The idea I have is you could take an multiple day captures, like over a week or two, overlay them and then make the areas that clouds and shadows fully transparent. I know there is a filter you can do this with SAGA and GRASS but I wonder if I can do this in R/terra with some raster math. It would be neat to have cloud-free images to see the changing the seasons.