A sunny start to Sunday

 Sunrise just happened. It's a clear morning, with the usual pinky orange glow on the horizon quickly growing into a bright patch of sunlight. Not that it's warm. The battery died in our little remote temperature thingie so I don't know how cold it is. Minus WTF or almost that, is a safe assumption. 

Our community association did an outdoor Halloween party for the local kids yesterday evening. That was a first for us, and everyone seemed to have lots of fun. We were a bit worried about the weather, but the snow stopped just in time, and we ended up with it being clear and cold for the party. But as my athlete buddies say, no such thing as bad weather, just poor clothing choices. Everyone seemed to be having fun, with lots of activities for the kids, and best of all, I didn't eat any candy. If you want to see the photos check out my photography blog page and look for the Woodcreek Comm Assoc tab and follow the links.

A couple people have asked how Celina is doing in the wake of Curtis's passing. Thank you for asking. She seems to be doing fine, as talkative as ever, looking for a lap but not being naggy or demanding about it the way Nefertiti was. We've been trying out some new food now that we don't have to get the hypoallergenic stuff for Curtis, but maybe it's too rich for her, or her tummy isn't used to the change yet. There's been some semi-recreational vomiting. 

Once upon a time, long long ago, this started as a fitness blog. I'd put workout details there so my coach and other athlete buddies could follow along. It has gradually evolved to the work of splendor you see before your eyes almost daily. The evolving is going to continue, but I don't know the details of how or the what yet. 

My buddy Sean posted a 30 days, 30 projects series of photos, and I've been thinking of trying something similar once this work contract winds down. It's sounding like a long cold winter is ahead, and COVID still doing it's thing, so being home inside is sounding like a good idea. Stay tuned.

I've just finished scrolling through the 106 not blogged photos in my 3 months photos not blogged folder, which does not include yesterday's halloween shoot. There's 136 edited photos there alone. I decided to give you this one. It's one of the oldest recent not blogged, from August 13.

And you get a past and a future serendipity!

Future first, because. This is from Muriwai beach during March 2020.

This is the past, from July 2016.

It turns out there are 1191 photos in the not blogged in the previous year. Many of these are driftwood and I'm working through them. 

It also turns out the oldest not blogged photo is of Michelle! I'd tried to rent a certain super fast Sigma lens for last year's kid's Halloween shoot, but ended up with the Canon version of it. Michelle was an obliging model to help me see how this portrait lens worked out. This version of the lens has chromatic aberration out the wazoo so I didn't like many of the images from a technical perspective. If you're buddies with Michelle you might have noticed some changes to her social media involving a photo that looks much like this one, from the same shoot.

Of the Day

Flower

One of the alliums from yesterday.

White peony

Driftwood

Still snowing this morning

But last night, as the snow fell, I was in a peculiar mood. I was watching some of Adam Savage's one day build videos, admiring his cave, and thinking about the mindset of being a maker. That's what he calls himself as he makes in his cave. It's the most amazing place, full of tools and supplies. He thinks of a project, and makes it, and videos the whole thing, goofs, fixes, and all. They're like eating peanuts, you can't watch just one.

It got me thinking about winter, and working with the camera in what I'm pleased to call a studio in the basement. (Stop laughing Sean.) Many of my macro photos are taken there, and I'm hoping to do many more. I want to revisit my glass paperweights and get nice photos of them, which is surprisingly hard to do. Getting macro photos of the innards is a possibility as well. I've got a list somewhere of potential subjects, and I'm working on a major subject project. I need to do some prototyping on that. More news as it happens.

But there I was, in a peculiar mood when I looked outside at the falling snow. Thinking of warm and cozy places instead of snow. Then I ran for the camera.

In the daylight this morning, after shovelling away another 4 cm of snow overnight. There is a total of 24 cm of snow on our patio table. You don't need a photo of that, it would just depress you. Off to prep for an outdoor kid's Halloween party, and do photos of the party itself.

Of the Day

Flower. The rose is still hanging in there, sort of.

White Peony

Driftwood

Flowery Friday 20, with snow

 There is nearly 18 cm of snow out there this morning. Yes, there is a photo, scroll down. But first, Flowery Friday to cheer you all up. These are Aug 1 to Aug 10.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

And from today, our patio table. We won't be having a BBQ lunch there any time soon.

Of the Day

Celina. One of the rare times she has hopped up to supervise close up.

Flower

White peony

Driftwood

The faded dahlias

For a few nights Linda covered up the plants, but winter has really come. She wanted to try to rescue the bulbs from a few plants. Once she took the covers off again, but before she dug things up I managed to get around to capture them. This was Oct 15. I like the faded blossoms almost as much as when they're in their prime.

There's still lots of flower shots from the summer to show up, stay tuned.

Of the day

White peony

Driftwood