Milt Reynolds: Thinking Out Loud

Mountain Goat or True Goat? Now I'm not sure... Armed with two cameras and binoculars, I returned to the wilds of Wallula Gap today to wrest from nature a better photograph of the wiley Mountain goats seen a couple of days ago. Rain lightly spattered on my windshield as I approached the curve in the highway near the locations I'd been at previously. I immediately spotted two goats on the hillside , lower down than before, closer than the two seen earlier. Elated, I readied my equipment and began to walk closer, snapping shots as I went . I'd brought my film SLR camera and a small digital. I love working with the near-obsolete 35mm film camera. I'd spent so much time as a teenager with such a camera. Hours in the darkroom, developing and printing my photographs. Most of my shots today were with the 35mm, but I did snap a few backup shots with the digital. As I got closer, it soon appeared that these were not Mountain goats . No horns, no beard, floppy ears...no

Wallula Mountain Goats I spotted two mountain goats , clinging to a ledge midway up a rocky hill on my way to Wallula Junction a couple of days ago. I only had my cell phone camera, and even with the zoom feature activated, it rendered an indistinguishable speck of white next to a microscopic speck of white. But they were goats! Honest! Here's the shot with my cell phone: Here's a modified image. the spot in the center is aimed directly at the two goats. Not very convincing proof, right? Oh, well. It's inspired me to take my binoculars and higher-quality camera and find these two characters again . Why are there two mountain goats in the hills near Wallula? Domesticated goats? Immigrants? Native? Maybe it's not a mountain goat? Wikipedia says Oreamnos americanus is found only in North America . And it's not a Capra, the scientific name for true goats. Mountain goats, or Rocky Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are properly in the Bovi

Google Chrome Browser: Remember Window Size & Position Google Chrome would not remember the window size and position , running under Windows 7. Searching the internet offered many solutions, some weird, some confusing, none effective. Not even Google's own help site offered a solution. It must be me. I cannot believe that Google would be so unhelpful. Taking a portion of one user's advice, and adding a bit extra from another user's suggestion, brought relief. Now I can resize my browser window and place it anywhere on the desktop, close the browser, restart, and it reappears where I last had it, correctly sized. Here's what I did: 1. My version of Chrome: 22.0.1229.79 m 2. Click on the settings icon ( a button with three, short horizontal bars, or perhaps yours is an image of a wrench. 3. Click on About Google Chrome (this is where you can also find what version of Chrome you're running) 4. Chrome will quickly check to see if your version i