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Friday, 11 December 2020: our temperature just before 1:00 pm is -8C (windchill -16C). Sunrise is at 8:30 am and sunset is at 4:29 pm. 'Winter' returned a few nights ago, after a number of beautifully mild days, bringing more snow and colder temperatures.
Seeing that our world was about to turn white again, I decided to make the most of the beautiful, mild weather four days ago, on 7 December 2020. My plan was to drive SE of the city and call in at the Saskatoon Farm for a late breakfast. There are always photo opportunities to be found here, together with a warm welcome and smiling faces. One of my absolute favourite places to be.
This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, pies, soups, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers great food.
Another reason for spending time away from home for a few hours was to keep me off my computer. A return to an extremely painful right shoulder, due to inflammation of the rotator cuff, is made even more painful when I type and keep clicking the mouse. This affects my whole arm, making it almost impossible to do everything, including things like putting on my awkward winter layers, holding my camera, and having to clear snow and ice off my car. Oh well, I guess it balances out with my very painful left knee : ) For a few hours, I was reminded harshly that driving does not help things either. Still, so thankful that I am at least able to get out and take photos!
From the Farm, I drove a few familiar roads to see if there was a Snowy Owl anywhere to be seen. The answer to that was - no.
There are a few for sale here.
Here is my very first gocco print ever! It is the same screen printed twice with two different colors of ink. The paper is Rives BFK becuase I have tons of scraps. It has some texture, but not too much. The ink sits beautifully on it. I learned that when I mix an ink color I need to make more than I think I need so that I get adequate coverage. I didn’t make quite enough of the bluish color and the line drawing pod is splotchy in the middle. I used Simple Green (thanks to all the awesome info here at the Gocco flickr group) to clean my screen in between colors and it worked like a charm without any toxic chemicals. On the brown run I used the ink blocking foam to guard the solid seedpod from getting printed and that worked just perfectly. So, all in all I call my first printing a success!
Adenanthera pavonina (Red sandalwood, false wiliwili)
Seedpods at Old Ka Lima nursery Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii.
July 21, 2009
This jacarandah seedpod was singing her heart out acapella, as her ambition is to make it big on X-Factor. Unfortunately I was the only one listening.
These are some of my favourite seedpods, all dried out yesterday when I saw them in Fish Creek Park in the Sikome area. As you can see by the sky, we had an absolutely gorgeous winter's day yesterday. This plant species was introduced from Eurasia and it has become a very unwelcome plant, spreading by means of the many, many tiny seeds it produces. The round seed capsule is surrounded by the "enlarged, bristle-topped sepals", forming the tiny, veined "urns" seen in my photo.
My dog Foxy. Taken June 13, 2018.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to add textures.
Nikon D300
200 mm lens
ƒ/5.6; 1/500; ISO 280
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Still not able to get out for new photos, so I am adding another five photos from my archives. If I wrote a description under a previously posted photo taken on the same outing, I will add it to this evening's uploads.
I had hoped over the Easter weekend to be able to go and see how I managed with driving my car. Two days ago, I had to call the AMA to come and boost my car battery, as I couldn't start my car. I knew it would be very painful to sit (sciatic nerve or maybe bursitis, I think). So, yesterday afternoon, after not leaving home at all in the last four weeks (!), I drove just as far as my local grocery store to pick up a few items that the delivery service is unable to bring. Thankful to be able to hang on to the shopping cart for stability. Such a relief to know that I now have all that I need for the next week, as I won't be leaving home at all, especially thanks to the weather forecast for more snow. However, we desperately need every bit of moisture we can get. Ha, this morning, I woke up in lots of pain from my drive/walking yesterday. Won't be in a hurry to do it again.
This photo was taken on 24 July 2013 at the Reader Rock Garden.
King Garden - ‘Back Lake’ - 264 Wiggins Rd, Scotsburn.
Designed to reflect its time and place, ‘Back Lake’ was conceived as a complete ‘landscape’ rather than a ‘garden’. Designed and largely constructed by architect owners Anne and Berry King the layout was developed at the house design stage, and detailed landscaping and plant selection decided before any work commenced. The dry-stone walls, ponds, raised vegetable beds, orchard and general planting & mulching were mostly completed in 2010. .
Strong winds limit plant selection. Planting includes 4 Prunus ‘Shirotae’ (white flowering cherry) creating an outdoor ‘room’, Pistacia chinensis (Chinese Pistachio), Angophora Costata (Smooth barked apple), together with swathes of euphorbias, echiums, acacias, agapanthus, correas, miscanthus and pennisetum grasses combining for immense effect. Sculpture collection. Bird life is prolific on and around the water and views are magical. Paradise found !