You’d be 76 today.
Happy birthday, dad
Patrick
The Milky Way, just off Hwy 2
I left the house last night around 11:30pm and headed south by southeast, looking for a nice dark spot to get some Milky Way photos. I got set up on a gravel road about 3 miles east of the junction of Highways #10 and #2, and started snapping. Here are some of the shots I liked the most.
I had intended to take an hour’s worth of photos, but my camera battery died after about 47 minutes and I didn’t notice for a while (I was reading in the car). Oh well, so it goes. Here’s the 47 minutes compressed into a few seconds’ worth of timelapse video.
Then, as I was leaving, I noticed the moon was setting over a small pond, so I got a shot of that, too.
Deer + Flowers
I went for a bike ride last night. I left the house about 8, got in around 9, and along the way I saw some deer grazing alongside the trail.
…and some flowers, too. Including, finally, some lilacs.
Saturday snaps
I biked a bit over 25km today, my first longer ride of the year, and it was glorious. Here are a few photos I took while I was out and about.
For my money, the first true sign of spring is not the robin but the dandelion[1]Also, I’m amused at the fact that “dandelion” comes from the French for lion’s tooth—dent de lion—but I learned in my French immersion schooling that the French call ’em «pissenlit» instead..
Footnotes
| ↑1 | Also, I’m amused at the fact that “dandelion” comes from the French for lion’s tooth—dent de lion—but I learned in my French immersion schooling that the French call ’em «pissenlit» instead. |
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Monday bike ride
On the Monday of the long weekend, I went for a ride and snapped a few photos.
The Milky Way on the long weekend
The aurora data were pretty meh last night, but I went out anyway and got some shots of the Milky Way climbing in the east. The video is the better part of an hour’s images, all shot at 11mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200.
More wildlife
Above: spotted on my walk on Tuesday. I hope whoever belongs to the li’l birdie gets reunited with it.
Below: Hoss grazing in our yard today. Once he’d had a snack he lay down for a snooze.
Lunar eclipse
On the evening of May 15, 2022, the Earth’s shadow fell completely across the face of the moon.
… and it happened early enough that I was still awake, so I took my camera and tripod out to the sidewalk and snapped a few dozen photos. These three are my favourites.
Skinny deer
On tonight’s bike ride, I found half a dozen deer grazing in the meadow west of 34th Street. They looked like they could use the food.
Quack quack
On my ride yesterday, I spotted a duck alongside the walking path. It spotted me, too, and moved cautiously away from me.