It was mostly sunny and breezy when we got up. I had my usual breakfast then downloaded and installed MouseZoom. It's an Apple OS X System Preferences panel that allows the mouse and track pad tracking speed to be increased beyond the settings allowed in the new Apple Mouse and Trackpad System Preferences. The maximum standard Apple setting is lower than it was with the old Keyboard & Mouse, so my new Apple Magic Mouse was a bit sluggish. With the new settings available with MouseZoom, it's back to normal. Two hummingbirds came up to my office window as I was working on that, so I put out our hummingbird feeders. Then I worked up a blog entry and did some computer work. J had started looking at non-stick cookware to replace our set of worn non-stick cookware, and when she showed me a cheap set at WalMart, I was surprised that it wasn't a nesting set where the handles come off like she had talked about getting. So, it became my homework assignment to look for a set of non-stick nesting cookware to replace our set of non-stick non-nesting cookware. I finally narrowed it down to two options: the Magma 10-pc. Non-Stick Nesting Cookware Set, model A10-365L, or the Galleyware 12-pc. Non-Stick Cookware Set.

As I was researching cookware, first I, then J, was notified that one of each of our images that we submitted to the Nature's Best Photography competition was selected to be in the semi-finalist round of the competition. My The Bond (far left) was taken at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 26, 2010, and J encouraged me to submit it. The image isn't as exciting to me as the other image of the baby orangutan that I took and posted on the blog that day too, but I'm glad the judges liked it. J's Sweetness Personified (near left) was taken in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada in June 2009. I'm jealous of J because she has a "real animal" (in the Wildlife category) in the semi-finals and I don't — mine is in the Zoos & Aquariums category.
I had lunch around 12:15 and read through the July 2010 Popular Photography. Then I went through recent images I've taken to do a final downselect before assigning final file names and converting the RAW files to TIFFs. Then I started to assign final file names and convert the RAW files to TIFFs.

We had dinner at 5:30 of leftover pork tenderloin, broccoli cheese rice, and a Greek-like salad.

We left in the Jeep around 6:15 to go look for moose.

We went to Long Draw Road on the other side of Cameron Pass and in the Roosevelt National Forest. It was the first time either of us had been down it, but we had gotten reports that it's a good location to see moose. We pulled into a trailhead shortly before Trap Lake, and there was a cow moose standing in the road! We got out, set up our camera gear, and saw that the cow had a calf with her. Unfortunately, the calf was in some really high willow and didn't make a very good photographic subject. The cow was fairly cooperative, and I was able to get some decent shots including the one to the left. We left after both the cow and calf laid down in the tall willow.

We stopped at Trap Lake and walked down to the shoreline. There weren't any moose, but it was a scenic lake and would be good for a sunrise shot. We continued heading down Long Draw Road and saw a huge bull moose way out (like maybe a 1/2 mile or 3/4 km) on the other side of a clearing. He would have made a good subject, but we didn't have time, nor the inclination, to tromp out through that much willow to get to him.

Long Draw Reservoir looked like it had potential for landscape photography from the map, but it was quite ugly in person. The area upstream of the lake was nice though, but by this time it was raining heavily and there was practically no light. We reached the end of the road, at the boundary with Rocky Mountain National Park, then turned around.

We stopped to check out Peterson Lake on our way back, and it wasn't very photogenic either.

We returned to the RV around 9:15. I downloaded the images I took then looked into the Toddy Cold Brew coffee system to reduce the amount of noise I make in the morning. With the Toddy Cold Brew coffee system, a large batch of coffee concentrate is brewed in advance, and then the concentrate is added to hot water when you're ready to drink it. I had thought about getting it before we went to Denali National Park so that I'd be able to have good coffee while tent camping at Wondner Lake, but decided to just go with instant coffee. I downselected the images I took tonight first in iView then in Capture One (C1). Then I ordered a Toddy Cold Brew coffee system from Amazon.com before going to bed.