Who's perfect? Reminds me of the story of the preacher asked anyone in the congregation who was perfect to stand up. One older man who had married a widow stood up.
Preacher asked, "Are you really perfect?"
"No, I'm standing up as proxy for my wife's first husband."
Reminds me of a story Paul Harvey once told (some of his stories may have been true). I think it was in Yellowstone that a bear was getting into the back of a car to get some goodies. The car's owner had his camera and insisted that rangers allow the bear to continue, he wanted the pictures. Only after the bear was leaving the car did someone manage to get through to him that he still had the lens cap on.
On a hike I met a young bobcat. He was curious and looked at me for a while so I got out my camera. In a hurry to get a shot before he left I didn't check the settings on the compact camera. As a result the shot was out of focus and the flash went off giving him a green eye effect.
And one on my brother. We where hiking up Mt St Helens in SW Washington. That was in the days before digital and he was snapping pictures like crazy. About halfway up the mountain, he realized that he had no film in his camera.
As someone else mentioned, both Mesa Verde and Durango are high altitude. The way to handle that is to ascend relatively slowly, maybe find an intermediate altitude and spend a day or two there before going to those places. Also, mountaineers motto is climb high, sleep low. If you can, spend nights at a lower altitude and only go to Mesa Verde or Durango for the day.
Reminds me of years ago when I used to drive by a wooded area to and from work. There was a dirt road, mostly clay, through the woods. One day on my way home I saw a wrecker on the edge of the road, winch line going off down that road. The light turned red and I happened to be where I could see that that winch line was attached to another wrecker with its winch line going off even deeper into the woods. I couldn't see the end of that line but would guess it was attached to a 4WD the owner of which thought that 4WD was magic.
And the advantage of four wheel drive is that it allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
One suggestion I've heard for driving on ice and snow is to pretend that you are in your new car, driving your grandmother to a church social. She is wearing a new dress and holding an open pot of gravy on her lap. In the back you have several open containers of tea.
Reminds me of the story about P.A.M. Dirac, the famous physicist. Physicists at times talk about things other than physics and one day a group was talking about women. During the conversation, Dirac mentioned his theory that there was an optimum distance from which to view a woman's face. Too close and you lose perspective, too far and you don't really see what you should. One of the other guys asked, "Well, Paul, tell us from experience, how close have you been to a woman's face?" It was not very close.
To complete the story, another physicist, Wigner, had a sister named Margit who became known among physicists simply as Wigner's sister. Well, a few years after the above, someone was visiting Dirac and an attractive woman came from the back of the house. Dirac introduced her as Wigner's sister. However she later claimed that he really said, "and this is Wigner's sister - who is now my wife."
Another reason to lock your doors. If there is food in there, the bear will eat it and leave a mess. In any case there is a good chance the upholstery may be worse off for that incident. Bears have learned all sorts of ways to get at our food.
That saying about guns should be modified. As written it is simply a statement of word meaning. It should say, "When guns are outlawed, outlaws will still have guns." That is true, some of the countries with the most stringent anti-gun laws have some of the worst problems with criminal firearms.
The 10 year delay was a mirage, no real enforcement and evidence indicates that Iran went right ahead with their nuclear program.
And real diplomacy? Which administration has managed several agreements between Israel and Arabic countries? We have to wait to see if those agreements will hold up, but that is more progress than we've seen since WWII toward peace in that region.
The treaty with Iran was an a*********n. Not really enforceable and even its supporters agreed that after ten years it would allow the Iranians to develop nukes.
I'd be delighted if we could completely get rid of nuclear weapons. However, the sad fact is that regimes like Iran and N. Korea seem intent on developing them. And Saudi Arabia has said that if Iran gets nukes, they will get them too.
Unfortunately, most any country with reasonable technological resources can make nuclear bombs. The hard work was done long ago, now the main difficulty is acquiring the bomb grade fissile material. That is why the treaty with Iran was so long on hope and so short on reality. Iran was developing the means to concentrate fissile material and the enforcement mechanism in that treaty was lacking. And there is good evidence that N Korea already has some nukes. And Israel's worst kept secret is possession of nukes.
I don't like it, but that seems to be the world we live in.
What model Canon do you have? Mine has a high dynamic range (HDR) mode that takes three images, then combines them to deal with that problem. A tripod is obviously helpful so you don't move the camera between shots.