A Beating
A heavy, wet, mid-Autumn snow is hard on a village that names itself after trees. One reason trees shed their leaves in the fall is to avoid the structural problems caused by branches having to hold the weight of both leaves and snow. When a snow comes before the leaves fall, the trees lose entire branches. The light snow the day before this had knocked big branches from trees all over town. Today's snow only piled on top of that.
Editor's Note: This photograph happens to be the 15,000th picture I've posted to flickr since I began this page in May, 2007. I've adopted the philosophy that I won't interrupt the narrative to place undue influence over which pictures mark milestone numbers, but fate offered up a pretty bland picture for number 15,000. It would have been nice if it could have been that steamboat picture from a few weeks back.
I made a conscious effort this year to slow my camera roll and post fewer photographs, because sometimes I think I just get excessive, and nobody wants to look at all this stuff. So it took me 311 days to post the last thousand pictures. That works out to an average of 3.22 pictures posted per day. This is well below the 5.43 post-per-day average I maintained for posts 13,000 through 14,000, and even slightly below my all-time post-per-day average of 3.29.
Want to see the milestones of the past? Here's a list of links ...
1,000th Picture, October 6, 2009
2,000th Picture, March 7, 2011
3,000th Picture, January 15, 2012
4,000th Picture, September 6, 2012
6,000th Picture, January 3, 2014
7,000th Picture, September 6, 2014
8,000th Picture, April 7, 2015
9,000th Picture, November 6, 2015
10,000th Picture, July 8, 2016
11,000th Picture, February 25, 2017
12,000th Picture, October 18, 2017
13,000th Picture, June 27, 2018
14,000th Picture, December 28, 2018
15,000th Picture, November 4, 2019
A Beating
A heavy, wet, mid-Autumn snow is hard on a village that names itself after trees. One reason trees shed their leaves in the fall is to avoid the structural problems caused by branches having to hold the weight of both leaves and snow. When a snow comes before the leaves fall, the trees lose entire branches. The light snow the day before this had knocked big branches from trees all over town. Today's snow only piled on top of that.
Editor's Note: This photograph happens to be the 15,000th picture I've posted to flickr since I began this page in May, 2007. I've adopted the philosophy that I won't interrupt the narrative to place undue influence over which pictures mark milestone numbers, but fate offered up a pretty bland picture for number 15,000. It would have been nice if it could have been that steamboat picture from a few weeks back.
I made a conscious effort this year to slow my camera roll and post fewer photographs, because sometimes I think I just get excessive, and nobody wants to look at all this stuff. So it took me 311 days to post the last thousand pictures. That works out to an average of 3.22 pictures posted per day. This is well below the 5.43 post-per-day average I maintained for posts 13,000 through 14,000, and even slightly below my all-time post-per-day average of 3.29.
Want to see the milestones of the past? Here's a list of links ...
1,000th Picture, October 6, 2009
2,000th Picture, March 7, 2011
3,000th Picture, January 15, 2012
4,000th Picture, September 6, 2012
6,000th Picture, January 3, 2014
7,000th Picture, September 6, 2014
8,000th Picture, April 7, 2015
9,000th Picture, November 6, 2015
10,000th Picture, July 8, 2016
11,000th Picture, February 25, 2017
12,000th Picture, October 18, 2017
13,000th Picture, June 27, 2018
14,000th Picture, December 28, 2018
15,000th Picture, November 4, 2019