storm

Storm damage, sunflowers

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Panoramic photo of the pines on 18th Street; one has been lopped off about halfway up

…and a bunny.

I went for a bike ride on Fri­day and anoth­er one today, Saturday.

Fri­day I snapped a pho­to of a rab­bit on BU campus.

Rabbit on BU's campus
Bun­nies at BU. Nature is healing.

Today, I went on a longer ride, and got pho­tos of some of the branch­es downed in the storm ear­li­er this week.

  • Branch down on the dike path
  • One of the trees down at the ball diamond
  • A tree down on the backstop
  • Dia­mond 1 prob­a­bly needs some work
  • The pine trees along 18th Street North

As I snapped pho­tos, a trac­tor came along and start­ed to drag the top of the pine tree off of 18th Street North. I tried to get a pic­ture but it turned out too dark.

I found a colour­ful com­bo just off Kirk­caldy, too, that remind­ed me that blue + yel­low = green.

And then, in the south end of town, I decid­ed to get a cou­ple shots of the sun­flow­ers (and the dill) grow­ing in the com­mu­ni­ty gardens.

  • Sun­flow­ers
  • Dill
  • Sun­flow­ers
  • One solo sunflower
It occurs to me that sun­flower hon­ey + dill would prob­a­bly make a pret­ty tasty hon­ey dill sauce.

And then, I went home, con­tent after a 26-km, 2‑hour bike ride.

Series: Bike Ride Photos

The entire series: Down by the riv­er; Bike ride birds; The ex-gar­den and the weir; Snap­shots of a ride; Across Town; Black­bird; North Hill cam­pus; Lilacs and coun­try roads; A pop of colour; Back lane flow­ers; More Breniz­ers; The riv­er is high; A bird and a reflec­tion; Rideau Park; Writ­ing Retreat 2020, Day 7; Writ­ing Retreat 2020: The Num­bers; Storm dam­age, sun­flow­ers; Eleanor Kidd gar­dens; Scenes from today’s ride; All right, autumn can be pret­ty; Bike ride, April 10, 2021.

Light show

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Lightning

Last night, about 11:30 PM, I set up my cam­era in the spare room upstairs, to try and catch some light­ning dur­ing the storm.

The head­er image above is a com­pos­ite of about 15 frames where I cap­tured light­ning bolts. Below are two of the indi­vid­ual frames.

And here’s a video of the whole show (10s frames at 6 frames a sec­ond means that one sec­ond of video rep­re­sents one minute of real time).