Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appro...
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GR 65 - a few days of beauty through the snow

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I've been scanning the slides for our April-May 2004 walk from Le Puy to Figeac. This is a long process. One slide at a time, I place into the flatbed scanner with a slide adaptor. There is a prescan, then a scan, it goes into Photoshop and I have to adjust the lighting and name the slide. Maybe three minutes per slide.

You would think this is a tedious process, but as I go through the slides I am reliving that wonderful trip. It was cold and wet, rained most days and for five days it snowed, but we were prepared and comfortable. I thought I would share some of those snowy day images. The most snow was on the stretch from Nasbinals through Aubrac and Saint Chely. Click on the images below to see them full size.

To us, daffodils came from bulbs you buy and plant in your yard. Here they were everywhere:
 In the morning there was a dusting of snow
And then Daffodils through the snow
 And then just a track through the sparsely populated high plateau
Leaving Nasbinals with snow coming
When the walking is easy, an umbrella keeps the snow out of your face
Still gaining elevation
Down the other side towards Aubrac
And finally Saint Chely, our destination for the night
When I finish scanning for the entire Le Puy to Figeac segment, I will put together a YouTube of the whole thing, but I wanted to put this out while it was fresh in my mind.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 28, 2010 at 7:46 AM

    very well done
    you bring back memories

    ultreia
    pieter

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  2. claire bangasserJanuary 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM

    Your photos help me remember our own same path a year later also in the snow.

    Thank you :-)

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  3. HikingMarch 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM

    Very nice.

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