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Running under the recently typical gloomy overcast, NS 238 passes the Amtrak Station in Columbia, SC as it arrives into town off the Southern’s W-Line from Spartanburg.
The weather forecast for yesterday, 27 August 2021, was originally for rain, and I almost cancelled out for a Fungi Foray west of Calgary. This was the first chance I had to get out and look for fungi this season, so I would have been very disappointed to miss it. Deciding to risk it, I joined a few others to go on a three-hour walk through the forest, searching for mushrooms and anything else of interest. We were so lucky that the rain stayed away.
We were successful in finding a number of small or very tiny fungi species, but there was a very obvious lack of larger species, especially Boletes. Makes one wonder if perhaps someone had very recently been through the forest, collecting all the Boletes to cook. Our leader, Karel, found one of my absolute favourite mushrooms, Strawberries and Cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii. It was still young so did not have any of the ruby coloured droplets on the top surface. (Two previously posted photos in comments.)
Three hours of searching produced enough species to make the walk worthwhile. My photos are not going to be too interesting and most definitely not spectacular. It's always a real challenge to get photos when there is a group of people standing around the leader - some tall people, too : )
After the walk, I decided to call in at another forested area before driving home. Just a twenty-minute walk and most unrewarding. In 2019, this area had many beautiful mushrooms. The photo I posted today of Wolf's Milk slime was taken at this location. We did see some on our foray, but my photos were rather blown out.
This is from a recent photoshoot with beautiful Chrissy. In this shot, she was seated next to a fountain on a patio outdoors. She had fun trying on a variety of hats and using different umbrellas. Rain was not in the forecast—but the colorful umbrella was a beautiful compliment to Chrissy.
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"The forecast is calling for Sun & More Sun
this week in my neck of the woods. It's a
good thing because tomorrow's election
day in Mississippi. I've already voted an
absentee ballot....since I'll be doing my
patriotic duty again.....working at the polls."
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"Don't know if your voting booth will be
open on Tuesday....but if it is I hope you'll
be able to get out and vote. And thank God
we still have a choice.....AMEN?"
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"Wishing you all a week full of Sunshine!"
~Mary Lou
This is from St. John...the beauty of a crystal clear day!
and is kind of sunny right now but the forecast today is for snow...
I'm paying to see that =/
Today is going to be a long day just because I have to go to the dentist...
Good morning for you that sometimes wake up already complaining about something too...
Let the day begin!
True to form, the weather would predict my route to Lancashire for my eagerly awaited week away with one of my best mates, my mountain bike and which would include encountering the classic Cumbrian Coastline.
Having no real time restraints heading East rather than North would have been my ideal choice as this would mean the weather was forecast fine and the chance to kick off the week in style was on !
Hitting the back of the net for the opener was 'Powerhaul' liveried 'Skoda'049 - 90 minutes to go . . . . !
Weather sweeps in from the south west, looks as though our couple of fine days is coming to an end, the next week is forecast to be windy and wet at times.
Scrabster Harbour, Caithness, Scotland.
Last night, about 11:30 pm, I checked our weather forecast. Our temperature was -27C (windchill -34C .... brrrr!). Apart from maybe two or three days of somewhat less frigid weather, this awful deep freeze has been going on for weeks.
Colour was needed on my photostream after all the snowy, owl photos that I posted. So, here is another shot of the absolutely gorgeous male Harlequin Duck that friends and I saw in June 2018, in Waterton Lakes National Park. I prefer the other photo of it that I posted ages ago, though it is easier to see the actual bird in this photo.
I am going to add, for the last time, the following, that I have posted for the last two or three days.
"I think the very first Long-eared Owl that I ever saw was seen on 13 October 2006. SInce then, I have been very fortunate to have seen several other individuals (see my Album) - including the day before yesterday. These owls are very secretive and many birders go years between sightings. It is so important not to give the location of this species. Be careful that there is nothing in your photos that gives away the location.
Various people had been posting photos of a Long-eared Owl recently, but I had no idea where they were seeing it. Someone had posted a photo and labelled it "Calgary" (totally untrue!), so I had thought it must have been seen in one of our local city parks. Two days ago, I decided to go for a short drive and get a bit of sunshine and fresh air. Our deep freeze has lasted for more than four weeks, and I have been home for most of that time. It was a milder day, so I decided to make the most of it, especially with more snow forecast for today.
Imagine my surprise when a stranger told me just where it was, and my absolute horror when I came upon a huge crowd of photographers with their lenses raised! So how did they all know about this owl?? Apparently, Facebook has such a bad reputation for people trolling everyone's photostream there, finding out locations for all sorts of things (old barns included!). Then, of course, some people phone others, to ask or to tell. Others follow ebird religiously, dashing out to see every more 'special' bird that is reported and location given. I don't post many photos on Facebook and I certainly don't post the same photo to three groups. It gets so very boring to see the same photos everywhere. These people flood their own Facebook pages and the groups! The only reason I can see is to get as many Likes as possible. Anyway, most people were down in the ditch at the fenceline, so no doubt they were able to get stunning close shots, especially those with enormous lenses. My photos were taken from the road, which was twice as far away, with a point-and-shoot. I'm not out to try and get better photos than anyone else : ) As always, there is so much competition among photographers. I was also not out there all day, like various people always are, and often day after day after day.
So, after saying those things, perhaps you can imagine how extremely upset (devastated, actually) I am to have been told (when I arrived at the owl) by a couple of friends (both of whom are superb photographers) that my photograph had been taken, along with two other people in it, standing at the edge of a road earlier in February. These friends thought it was hilarious and I sure was teased a lot. As they said, my "goody two-shoes" image was gone. They both know I have very high ethics, including when it comes to photography. This photo was posted on Facebook on a provincial birding page, pointing out how dangerous it is for people to stand by the road. This thread turned into a string of comments about people harassing the owls, etc., etc., etc. Actually, the other two people in the photo are both seen taking photos (when I was told they already had taken thousands). There's me, camera not raised, looking disgusted that an owl had been flushed so that they could take flight images. The reason I was out of my vehicle was that these two people were out of theirs and racing down the road at top speed to get yet more shots. When I was sitting in my car, these photographers blocked my view of the owl, so out I got and caught up with them. To prove that I was not planning on getting out of my car this trip, I was wearing just my thin summer jacket (over fleece) in a windchill in the minus 20C's.
Sorry to rant, but it just upsets me so much that this photo was taken and posted on Facebook. Have barely slept the last two nights! The very last thing I would ever want is to be connected with bad ethics!! Of course, I must be such a bad person to actually stand by the road - ha, you should see all the dozens of people who do exactly the same (without being photgraphed)!
That day, I took maybe 30 photos of the Long-eared Owl, and maybe a couple of dozen of a Short-eared Owl, almost every single one of the latter needing to be deleted, because they were all totally blurry, thanks to taking the photos from inside my car. You can be sure that most of the others went home with yet another memory card containing thousands of photos.
Sorry for the rant, but I am hoping that now I won't be stressing out over it quite as much, every second of the day! Ain't life fun? To the man who took my photo (as far as I know, I have never met him), how about taking a few photos of the crowds of people, especially those who were as close as they could get to the LEO. Or those who stress out the owls day after day after day, often from morning till evening! You might just get lots of likes and comments on photos of those repeat "offenders". How about giving it a try?
PS: I rarely allow people (i.e. friends) to photograph me. Not sure what right this man thinks he has, to take my photo and especially to then post it on a very popular Facebook group page. I would like it removed from Facebook, or at the very least, to have myself totally blurred out of the image. When this sort of thing happens, it can totally destroy a person's joy of photography! 127 comments on this man's posting - angry, rude, critical, by people who don't even know me or my ethics!!!
Actually, on a more serious note, something that I'm sure most people don't think of. You really need to be careful about taking a photo of someone and then posting it (without signing a consent form). For various security reasons, doing this could actually put someone in danger. For example, a woman (or vice versa) might not want their photo being advertised in this way, not wanting an abusive spouse/partner to know where they go sometimes or what they do. Just something to keep in mind."
The weather forecast looked promising for last Sunday morning, and I thought that perhaps I could take advantage of what looked like a rare chance of some clear skies for the sunrise in the Bay Area. So I made it to Pillar Point Harbor before dawn, but drove through a lot of fog along CA-1, and it was definitely not the clear morning I was hoping for. In the end though, I got to spend some nice time with a bunch of shorebirds in their breeding plumage. This is a willet who warmed up to me and hung around fairly close, giving the opportunity for some nice shots.
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Netanyahu ("have Gaza and West Bank!") is missing here, for example. And a lot of others can be added, too...
Nevertheless: I wish all Flickr friends a peaceful, good, healthy New Year
The Saturday morning forecast was for showers, so I headed out to take advantage of a dry spell.
Facing east from Kelley Point, a City of Portland park, the Columbia River is busy with activity on Saturday morning, with a tug boat pilot steering grain vessels to load up and then head in the opposite direction to Japan, S. Korea, China, and also to Egypt [the hard wheat grown in the Columbia River Basin is ideal for making noodles].
This great and powerful river now has many major dams [see maps] and with that has interfered with the salmon fishery. Government has stepped in, but with marginal results. Salmon and a predator, a harbor seal, both listed as endangered, are protected, but with tens of billions spend on salmon run restoration, the seals eat salmon like grapes.
Other interests along the river include the native peoples, electricity producers and consumers, agriculture, transportation industries, and recreational fishermen/women, and sailors, canoe and kayakers,, wind-surfers, etc.
Kelley Point is at the confluence of Oregon’s other main river, the Willamette River, flowing from South to North and meeting here.
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The mountain in the background is Mount Adams in Washington State, part of the Cascade Range.
View over my back fence...limbs from my Corkscrew Willow dripping wet
from the snow. We're expecting 4 inches overnight..
Canon 50mm f/1.4 prime lens, no flash.
TODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST
Today's weather forecast, RAIN. Don't forget your umbrella.
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In the days before weather forecasts were on every mobile phone we made do with the BBC weather forecast, to be fair localised mist and fog is difficult to predict but when you are standing there and your expected train arrives it was frustrating! It is amusing to read the poster warning passengers that their new and wonderful Sprinters had button operated doors.
33040 peers through the fog as it draws to a halt at Nantwich Station, it was working the 05.33 Cardiff to Crewe service.
33040 was built as D6558 by BRCW, it entered traffic 10/06/1961. It was withdrawn 14/05/1993 and scrapped by M.R.J. Philips at Stewarts Lane
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It was supposed to be raining. And blowing. Don’t let anybody forecast failure for you. Just show up and see what happens.
From the overlook at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.
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50mm
F32@1/15th
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Weather forecasting's a tough gig.
They may as well be using Photoshop - mother nature's just unpredictable... Today's forecast - looks like rain or grainy snow... Enjoy Saturday my friends 8-)
Forecast Summary
"Heavy, blustery showers will feed in from the northwest today affecting all parts, with the risk of hail and thunder. There will be sunny spells in between the showers but it will feel cool, especially in the strong wind."
BBC Weather
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Balcony view,
-3C,
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Saturday is forecast to be a little wet and stormy, however a splendid sunrise briefly illuminates Double Denim Dando having a little shimmy. Our dancing hero, who had a series of tap dancing wins in the now defunct West of England Tap & Morris Dancing Championships in the early 1950s always gives out such positive vibes and is a joy to work with. Though he can be a little slow getting on with the actual job in hand.
Regulars of my nonsense will no double recognise him, for he has many jobs, an entertainer, moonshiner, bare footed grape crusher, as well as his more official role of railway shunter, though he appears to have lost his pole for popping those couplings off between the loco and wagon whilst still on the move. Despite being 77, he’s more nimble than ninja one third of his age, so can nip between locos and wagons coupling and uncoupling without the need of that aforementioned couple pole.
For a month or so in the summer around 8pm, the evening sun penetrates my den and illuminates Fountain Colliery. I usually notice this too late, but made a point of pointing a camera at it an evening or two ago, today’s photo being the outcome.
Our bitterly cold weather continues. Yesterday, 6 February 2017, the forecast for this morning was -28C (windchill -35C!). Forecast for tomorrow morning is -27C (windchill -36C). After that, things are supposed to warm up, thank goodness. I haven't been out anywhere the last few days - too much new snow and such cold, cold weather. Almost unheard of, birding walks for yesterday and today were cancelled. Normally, many people will go, no matter how bad the weather. I tend to be a fair-weather photographer : )
On 8 August 2015, I decided to drive SW of the city for a while. It was a Saturday, so I thought I would go and check if there were other people parked at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. I had more or less stopped going into the forest there by myself, especially the last couple of years, knowing that Cougar and Bears can be seen there. All I have seen - so far! - is a large Moose on a couple of occasions. The place gives me the creeps, so I usually just walk through the trees closest to the parking lot.
Just a minute or two after entering the forest near the parking lot, I flushed a Grouse, which scared the life out of me. They tend to wait, hidden, and then when you are almost by them, they suddenly "explode" out of the bushes, making ones heart beat fast.
The opposite side of the trail, where I usually find a few mushrooms, had pools of water after the two devastating rain and hail storms that we had had recently. With several cars in the small parking lot, I decided to go just a short way into the park, trying to forget that animals can "smell fear". I did come across a few quite nice mushrooms, but with such a dry, hot summer, this season has not been good for fungi. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is "The Sickener" / Russula emetica fungus, as it has a red cap and a white stalk.
"Russula emetica, commonly known as the sickener, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Russula, one of many species with a predominantly red-coloured cap and white gills and stalk. It gets its common name from its inedibility, as it causes vomiting and diarrhea when consumed. It has an extremely peppery taste, which is said partly to disappear on cooking, along with its toxicity, though eating it is not recommended. Mixing one emetica with otherwise edible red Russula will ruin the whole meal, and it is a common reason some do not pick any red Russula-species." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_emetica
The second time my heart started beating really fast was when I was trying to focus on a mushroom and I was aware of a deep, huffing kind of sound coming from right behind me. Turning around, dreading what I might see, I discovered it was just a small Red Squirrel, low down on his/her tree, just a couple of feet away from me. I've never ever heard a Squirrel make this kind of sound before! Sounded rather like what I imagine a bear might sound like, ha.
Almost back at the edge of the forest, I was happy as can be to hear quite a commotion that I recognized as being American Three-toed Woodpeckers. There were three of them high up in a tree, with at least one of them being a noisy, hungry juvenile that was feeding itself but every now and then would want the adult to feed it. This species is uncommon in Alberta, year round, so it's always a treat to see one - and especially three.