Pie Pickup Day

Saturday was pie-pickup day at the United Church in Ashton, a hamlet only about ten minutes away from Carleton Place. I had ordered online a pumpkin pie and an apple pie for todays Thanksgiving feast.

Last year, on the same trip, I had detoured around a little to get autumn photos, which were at their peak. But it was rainy on this Saturday, so I chose to drive directly to Ashton and back this year.

Upon arrival, I grabbed a couple of photos of the little park across the street from the church.

I had taken quite a few interior photos on my previous visit for Easter pies here, so I only took one quickie this year with a pano sweep (as discussed a bit recently in my Woolgrowers post). It is such a distinctive church with the pulpit in the corner with pews curved toward it, and along with the stained glass windows, that I couldn't resist taking at least one more photo. Once again, I am so impressed at how well the iPhone handles the lighting, and to think that I can take the photo in a second or two without fussing with the big camera and combined with post-production editing.

I see that I took an almost identical ↓ photo with me dslr last April, but the new phone version ↑ is probably better, at least on first glance.

Back outside, having picked up my prize pies, I did another bottom to top, vertical panorama. I still didn't get the whole width of the building. The warping of outside architecture like this perhaps makes the panoramic style not appropriate, but it was fun to experiment some more. By the way, we can also call a vertical panorama a vertorama. I like that.

I took one more photo looking across the road from the church , kitty-corner to the southeast. It was a dull day but there was still some fairly nice, if understated, colour, and I quite like the image.

Then, I drove directly home without stopping for more photos although I did pass a few very nice stands of trees alongside the highway.