After a week of unseasonable warmth, our snow was starting to thin out. It’s snowing again tonight, though, heavy, wet snow. Here’s a bit of it clinging to the branches of one of the trees in our yard.
New snow, Feb. 7, 2024
Patrick
Coffee time
Thursday morning: making coffee in the percolator my grandparents used to use when they’d go camping.
Rime Ice, January 26th
It was really foggy on the evening of the 25th. I had a bus to catch on the 26th, but I spent a few minutes in the back yard taking photos of the rime ice before I had to leave town.
My favourite photos of 2023
I took a lot of photos in 2023, some in the daylight, some after dark. Here are some of my favourites.
Continue reading “My favourite photos of 2023”Moonrise, Boxing Day
The sun had just set and the moon was just coming up when we got to the farm.
Christmas frost
It cooled off a bit overnight, and I liked the light shining through the frost on the farmhouse door this morning.
The tree is up
And lit up, too.
Rime ice
Moonlit aurora, Dec. 1, 2023
The moon was up by the time I got out, so the lights were a bit washed out. The clouds rolled in and I left. In between I snapped a bunch of photos of the northern lights and heard a coyote howling in the distance.
The Just City
This line in Jo Walton’s The Just City struck me hard, and so I share it with you.
“There isn’t an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.”
Apollo, in The Just City by Jo Walton