Sunrise on January 9.
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Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
winter sunrise
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I like the way the tire tracks reflect the light.
Always nice to see the sun in the depth of winter.
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I like the way the tire tracks reflect the light.
Always nice to see the sun in the depth of winter.
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Friday, November 15, 2019
leaves on the snow
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Fall was late, around these parts. Our peak color was at the end of October, not during the second weekend (as usual). We had a cold day, last week, and a lot of leaves fell.
Then it snowed. A lot (8"?). And there are still a LOT of leaves on the trees.
This video starts with the sun, setting farther south each day, and way more fallen leaves on a biggish snow than I’ve seen before.
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Fall was late, around these parts. Our peak color was at the end of October, not during the second weekend (as usual). We had a cold day, last week, and a lot of leaves fell.
Then it snowed. A lot (8"?). And there are still a LOT of leaves on the trees.
This video starts with the sun, setting farther south each day, and way more fallen leaves on a biggish snow than I’ve seen before.
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
March 16, 2019
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Well, the ability to store a million pics (that is hyperbole) on my phone has caught up with me.
The next pics I should show you, after the last ones I *did* show you, are frost on the window, and I just couldn't bear to go back and edit them. Maybe I'll go back to mid January and catch up. Some day. Or maybe I won't.
In lieu of showing nothing, I'm jumping ahead to yesterday.
8:17 am. Approaching the equinox.
9:15 am. I have video. Blogger is declining to let me upload any video. It was seriously snowing and blowing........
9:37 am.
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Well, the ability to store a million pics (that is hyperbole) on my phone has caught up with me.
The next pics I should show you, after the last ones I *did* show you, are frost on the window, and I just couldn't bear to go back and edit them. Maybe I'll go back to mid January and catch up. Some day. Or maybe I won't.
In lieu of showing nothing, I'm jumping ahead to yesterday.
8:17 am. Approaching the equinox.
9:15 am. I have video. Blogger is declining to let me upload any video. It was seriously snowing and blowing........
9:37 am.
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Saturday, February 09, 2019
January 2, 2019
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Want to take a guess as to what this is?
In the prev, we were looking down at the top of a stone wall, with just a light dusting of snow. The orange rock above is the smallest rock on top of the wall in the next image.
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Want to take a guess as to what this is?
In the prev, we were looking down at the top of a stone wall, with just a light dusting of snow. The orange rock above is the smallest rock on top of the wall in the next image.
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Thursday, February 07, 2019
December 30, 2018
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Sunrise, just after the solstice. Dec. 30, 2018.
Shifting the (phone) camera just a bit to the left of the above. This is looking basically straight east.
How long has it been since you've seen one of these?
Shortly after sunset.
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Sunrise, just after the solstice. Dec. 30, 2018.
Shifting the (phone) camera just a bit to the left of the above. This is looking basically straight east.
How long has it been since you've seen one of these?
Shortly after sunset.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
November 18, 2018
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Walking as the sun went down. Check out those lines of gray clouds just above the horizon.
Moonrise. This is the most serious disadvantage to phone photos, in my view -- no zoom lens.
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Walking as the sun went down. Check out those lines of gray clouds just above the horizon.
Moonrise. This is the most serious disadvantage to phone photos, in my view -- no zoom lens.
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
November 16, 2018
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More morning snow on the 16th.
I wish I knew who made this........
All the research I have seen shows that if people are qualified to do the job, the more diversity of perspectives, experience, point of view, etc, etc, you have on the team, the better the decisions that will be made.
More PostcardsToVoters for Mike Espy.
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More morning snow on the 16th.
I wish I knew who made this........
All the research I have seen shows that if people are qualified to do the job, the more diversity of perspectives, experience, point of view, etc, etc, you have on the team, the better the decisions that will be made.
More PostcardsToVoters for Mike Espy.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
November 13, 2018
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7:08 am.
8:00 am.
I got dropped downtown to do some business with the post office. I had to mail tax returns for the NGO I work with, and I needed stamps and postcards for more get-out-the-vote activities.
Walking home. Snow on asters. I saw several snowy chrysanthemums which were much sadder than this aster.
Snowy, but not dead yet.............
Crab apples in West Park.
Closer. Robin feast!
There are a bunch of big crab apple trees in the park.
Snowy ravine between our neighborhood and Huron street.
Japanese maple.
Tulip tree. Love this orangey brown.
Closer crop of the above.
Yay, we're back to blue flowers. I would certainly rather have blue flowers on my get-out-the-vote postcards than red ones!
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7:08 am.
8:00 am.
I got dropped downtown to do some business with the post office. I had to mail tax returns for the NGO I work with, and I needed stamps and postcards for more get-out-the-vote activities.
Walking home. Snow on asters. I saw several snowy chrysanthemums which were much sadder than this aster.
Snowy, but not dead yet.............
Crab apples in West Park.
Closer. Robin feast!
There are a bunch of big crab apple trees in the park.
Snowy ravine between our neighborhood and Huron street.
Japanese maple.
Tulip tree. Love this orangey brown.
Closer crop of the above.
Yay, we're back to blue flowers. I would certainly rather have blue flowers on my get-out-the-vote postcards than red ones!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
November 9, 2018
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This was a surprise. The weather channel had said "snow," but I thought they meant flurries. We still haven't had a visible frost, as I write this on 11/12.........
9:30 am. It was still coming down.
5:22 pm. All gone, except for north-facing roofs and otherwise shaded spaces.
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This was a surprise. The weather channel had said "snow," but I thought they meant flurries. We still haven't had a visible frost, as I write this on 11/12.........
9:30 am. It was still coming down.
5:22 pm. All gone, except for north-facing roofs and otherwise shaded spaces.
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Friday, May 18, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
April 9, 2018
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Cloudy morning.
Cloudy afternoon. With snow.
Feather on the sidewalk.
I mentioned a few days ago that we are getting some grid enhancement. Yay. It's been a long time since I took this pic. Writing this post on May 11, and one of those metal things is still below this telephone pole. Maybe I should call the utility company. These can't be cheap...........
Um. Spotted this as trash on the sidewalk. I don't generally pay that much attention to the trash I pick up. But this is odd. Closed ziplock, with clean paper, and small bits of something hard and dark -- aquarium gravel, maybe? -- inside the bag. Ok, that's weird.
Walking on. I find another one. And another, and another. I think 5 altogether. With different messages, which I come to understand are hate propaganda. Groovy. In MY neighborhood!
When I got home, I called the police. The officer I spoke to was attentive and promised to send officers to pick it up. Good.
When they showed up, they didn't want it. They said someone else had already called, and "detectives" already had an example of the trash. Given that spreading hate speech is not a crime in this country (SHAME ON US!), the police did not want to accumulate more stuff to have to catalog and store.
I'm not a judge of what it's important to catalog and store, but something that seems to me likely to have fingerprints if not DNA is something worth storing, to show a pattern of bad behavior later, when the dirtbag does something that IS a crime..... But what do I know.
I looked up this group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, and it's a known group, associated with what happened in Charlottesville, and also other places. Dirtbags!
SPLC has a "hate watch" section where a random person can report this sort of thing, so I did that.
Sheesh!
In my town! In my neighborhood!
I was talking to a neighbor, who said she thought our neighborhood was a stupid place to put this sort of thing. I asked why, thinking that disaffected youth are everywhere. She said "Because in our neighborhood it's more likely that someone will be picking up trash than that disaffected youth will find it, and the nasty stuff will end up in the garbage."
Hmmm. Good point. Trying to imagine youth picking up trash off the sidewalk. Basically failing. And disaffected youth? Picking up trash in the 'hood? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. No. Smoking by the basketball court in the park, maybe. But picking up trash? Not a chance.
Still.
Disturbing that people are spreading hateful stuff. Clearly intending to make people uncomfortable.
At best.
I decided I wanted to inform city council, and the mayor. Because I thought they should know. They were even less interested in it than the police, but I feel like I did what I could. And three of them did get back to me.
I hate dirtbags.
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Cloudy morning.
Cloudy afternoon. With snow.
Feather on the sidewalk.
I mentioned a few days ago that we are getting some grid enhancement. Yay. It's been a long time since I took this pic. Writing this post on May 11, and one of those metal things is still below this telephone pole. Maybe I should call the utility company. These can't be cheap...........
Um. Spotted this as trash on the sidewalk. I don't generally pay that much attention to the trash I pick up. But this is odd. Closed ziplock, with clean paper, and small bits of something hard and dark -- aquarium gravel, maybe? -- inside the bag. Ok, that's weird.
Walking on. I find another one. And another, and another. I think 5 altogether. With different messages, which I come to understand are hate propaganda. Groovy. In MY neighborhood!
When I got home, I called the police. The officer I spoke to was attentive and promised to send officers to pick it up. Good.
When they showed up, they didn't want it. They said someone else had already called, and "detectives" already had an example of the trash. Given that spreading hate speech is not a crime in this country (SHAME ON US!), the police did not want to accumulate more stuff to have to catalog and store.
I'm not a judge of what it's important to catalog and store, but something that seems to me likely to have fingerprints if not DNA is something worth storing, to show a pattern of bad behavior later, when the dirtbag does something that IS a crime..... But what do I know.
I looked up this group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, and it's a known group, associated with what happened in Charlottesville, and also other places. Dirtbags!
SPLC has a "hate watch" section where a random person can report this sort of thing, so I did that.
Sheesh!
In my town! In my neighborhood!
I was talking to a neighbor, who said she thought our neighborhood was a stupid place to put this sort of thing. I asked why, thinking that disaffected youth are everywhere. She said "Because in our neighborhood it's more likely that someone will be picking up trash than that disaffected youth will find it, and the nasty stuff will end up in the garbage."
Hmmm. Good point. Trying to imagine youth picking up trash off the sidewalk. Basically failing. And disaffected youth? Picking up trash in the 'hood? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. No. Smoking by the basketball court in the park, maybe. But picking up trash? Not a chance.
Still.
Disturbing that people are spreading hateful stuff. Clearly intending to make people uncomfortable.
At best.
I decided I wanted to inform city council, and the mayor. Because I thought they should know. They were even less interested in it than the police, but I feel like I did what I could. And three of them did get back to me.
I hate dirtbags.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
March 6, 2018
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I don't do much sewing these days, but I do still do some mending. Ripped out jacket pocket.
This coat is a darkish olive green. Why the phone camera decided to make it look light tan I do not know.
Winter night in Tree Town.
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I don't do much sewing these days, but I do still do some mending. Ripped out jacket pocket.
This coat is a darkish olive green. Why the phone camera decided to make it look light tan I do not know.
Winter night in Tree Town.
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