Sat. 12.21.19 – Photo of two American Goldfinches at a water faucet taken at Irvine Regional Park by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D850 and a Nikon 70-200mm f/4 lens.
Tag: water
Late November Tidbits
It is Friday. Here is some reading and other tidbits for your weekend, if you are so inclined. High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer By restoring soils and grasslands, farmers in the Texas Panhandle are conserving the last water beneath their…
Where the Italian Garden melds into the Long Water
Sun 11.17.19 – Photo of the final fountain Italian Gardens taken by Ms. Jen with her camera phone during yesterday afternoon’s walk through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park.
London Skyline, Waiting for the Full Moon
Tues. 11.12.19 – Happy November Full Moon for those of you who can see it. Late yesterday evening, I took the Nikon out to the Embankment bridge to photograph the Full Moon rising over The Shard and the Thames. Due to large clouds hugging…
SoCal Fire Season Smoke
Thurs. 11.07.19 – With the autumn SoCal Fire Season in full swing, I am off to non-asthma indicing fresh air.
Weekend Tidbits or an Ode to Hedgehogs, Water, and the Deep Time of Trees, plus a few Con Men
Hedgehogs, UK Politics, and general understated Amusement in this Metafilter post: “1566 seems very recent, but the hedgehog was around before then” Transcript of MP Rory Stewart’s hedgehog defense in Parliament in 2017. Of all the possible Tory MPs possible to be the next…
The London Skyline at Dusk from the Embankment Bridge
Sun. 11.18.18 – Yes, I am back in London to write. I find that I write best here, for a number of reasons both known and rather mysterious to me. When I am home in California, I can muster 2000-4000 words per month, hardly…
Just Before Dawn on All Saints Day, or Getting Up Too Early to Photograph the Sunrise at Mackerel Cove
Thurs. 11.01.18 – To a person who is not yet on East Coast Daylight time, but instead still three hours behind in Pacific Daylight time, waking up at 6:40am in Rhode Island to be out at Mackerel Cove beach to photograph the sunrise and…