Time Flies By

I can't believe this is September first! My first thought is I hope the weather continues to hold for continued shooting outside. We've been hard at work, shooting, since the end of July, and are not quite halfway through videotaping the stories we're including in the documentary. That still leaves a couple of weeks to shoot my on-camera stand-ups, including footage of a vintage car we're using as a visual transition from site to site.

I'm getting a bit nervous about the weather. It has been quite dry this summer, and the trees are already showing signs of turning due to stress. (I'm probably also showing signs of stress!) We have to start working faster so as not to be caught "leafless" by October!! (We also raced Mother Nature last fall as we were shooting still photos for the book, "Tales of the Road-Highway 61)

Speaking of the book, last week, I did an interview for a local magazine about the book and my publicist with the MInnesota Historical Society Press is lining up several events at various bookstores and libraries along the road. (I'll put up a link to those in the coming weeks) I'm a decent interviewer and hope that I'm coherent as an "interviewee" which will be a whole new role for me. I usually ask the questions, not answer them!

We took the Labor Day holiday weekend off (to sleep) but will be back at it this Friday when we take to the waters of White Bear Lake and videotape a lovely vintage racing sailboat (a key element in a story about a man who founded the Johnson Boatworks along Highway 61 in White Bear Lake) I hope the weather holds for that shoot!! Keep your fingers crossed.