This webcam looks across my front yard in Bolton towards the northeast. Its a rather quiet road, so there's very little traffic or activity outside, and the best use of the webcam pictures is simply to check the weather and the seasons. If you're curious, here's a map of the area and here's the Town of Bolton website. The webcam itself is a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000.

6 most recent images for Friday May 09, 2008
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How do the photos get from my webcam to this page? I run a ColdFusion server (the free Developer Edition) on a computer in my home office with the webcam attached. A small ColdFusion script starts the webcam program Logitech ImageStudio every morning, and that program has an automatic motion detector which usually takes a snapshot when a car drives by or when the trees move in the wind. Another ColdFusion script runs every half hour to look for a new picture file in the ImageStudio directory, then it automatically uploads to this website, which also runs ColdFusion server (Enterprise Edition) at a hosting company. This page is itself a ColdFusion script which looks for the most recent pictures that have been uploaded, then displays them chronologically in reverse order, starting at the newest on the upper left.