The Greenery of Sonoita

July 15, 2008

Here in Sonoita, AZ we are in full swing Monsoon season. The afternoon and evening Thunderstorms have been quite spectacular. The rainfall has been heavy. At times, you cant see 50 feet away from you its raining so hard.

The Monsoon season is nice because it also tends to cool down our 100+ degree temperatures that we soar to in the Summer. It also has the side effect of making the rolling hills of Sonoita quite green. I wouldn’t say it looks like Ireland or anything, but if you are at all familiar with the area, its a stark contrast to the normal, more brown color of the area. We get this greeness, and we are not at the peak yet, for about 1 month a year in the middle of Monsoon.

I thought I would snap a couple of images of the green scenery and post them here. For a comparison, you can take a look at the Sonoita Web Scenery Photo Gallery. Both of these images are shot from our house.

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Savannah’s First Video Production

July 14, 2008

During many of our vacations, Savannah has enjoyed time taking video of the various things we have been doing. She knows that Suzanne will spend a bunch of time later editing the video to create a DVD of the experience.

She was so interested in doing this herself that last Christmas we got her a Disney package of a very low end video camcorder and some editing software. It turned out to not be a very good software package.

She has recently spent a lot of time on youtube watching videos and has an account and does other stuff there. She has been wanting to create some of her own videos to upload to youtube. So during our last trip to Michigan, while at the Lake Huron resort, she filmed a bunch of stuff when the weather started getting bad to make her own weather report video.

This weekend we spent a bunch of time teaching her how to use our video editing software (ULEAD) to make videos. When she was done, she posted her work to youtube. Its about what you would expect from 10 year old, so don’t expect an Oscar Award winning short file, but I am pretty impressed with how she picked up the software package and was able to take a bunch of video and edit down to the video below. Enjoy!