My critter pictures have finally reached September. We’ve been taking far few pictures of late; the action outside our living room window has dropped significantly. I expect it to pick up later in the fall, when our winter birds return, and the deer start coming back to the feeding station. 🙂
This picture was taken on Sept. 1. That morning, Creamsicle posed quite nicely for us. 🙂
Such a big handsome boy he’s growing up to be! I love the little orange bits on either side of his nose. 🙂
While at the beach a few days ago, I tried to get photos of all the seagulls on the shore.
These are just a few that I could get in frame at once!
It’s so nice to go to the beach this time of year. It’s still pleasant out, but tourist season is over, so there’s hardly any people around. Especially in the morning. 🙂
We had a full moon last night and I went out to experiment with some long exposure shots using my phone’s camera.
I have a mini Gorilla Pod that I bought before the move, but haven’t had a chance to use other than testing it when I first bought it. I was able to use it to attach my phone to our driveway gate for a few shots, then at one of the wagon wheels on the fence beside the gate for a few more.
First, my favourite of the bunch.
This was taken from the wagon wheel beside the gate, using the manual setting on the camera. To be honest, I can barely see the numbers on the screen, so I was really winging it when adjusting the settings. For this one, it was taken using f/1.5, 4 second exposure, ISO-50.
This one was taken just a few minutes earlier, from the gate.
It’s a terrible picture, but it demonstrates just how much colour and brightness a long exposure can capture, even in the dead of night!
f/1.5, 30 second exposure, ISO-3200.
While I was taking shots at the gate, I flipped the camera and took a shot of the sky. So this next photo was taken in the exact same location as the bright photo above; just pointing the camera lens straight up.
I was really surprised by how blue the sky turned out! Other pictures I tried later, with longer exposures, from further down the driveway had a black sky. Possibly because this area was much brighter from the full moon?
f/1.5, 10 second exposure, ISO-1600
I’m rather liking this little Gorilla Pod I have! One of these days, I’ll even be able to use it for the purpose I bought it – once I reclaim my crafting table.
This morning, after dropping my daughter off at work, I took the time to check out the beach and take a walk.
It was really quite gorgeous.
As always, I keep an eye out for interesting things washed up by the waves and tides. For myself, I look for interesting rocks. For my older daughter, I look for interesting… anything.
And, wow, did I ever hit the jackpot today!!
At first glance, I actually thought it was some washed up, crumpled plastic or something.
I’ve found the odd jaw bone of a fish before, but never an entire skull! It’s pretty big, too. About the size of the palm of my hand. Slightly longer, in fact.
I have no clue what it is, though. That bone “sail” at the back of the skull is fascinating.
Does anyone recognize what it is?
Also, it rattles. There is something stuck inside the skull. Sounds like a small pebble.
With all the rain we’ve been having, life is starting to slow down on the home front lately. After the various trips made in the last while, we’ve got a couple of “days off” to just stay home.
It’s been either too wet or too windy to do the junk wood burning I had hoped to do, so there has been no progress there at all. While there are a number of things I want to do around the yard, they are not things that should be done in the rain. We’re supposed to warm up over the next few days, and even start approaching 30C by Tuesday, so I hope to get a chance to work on those.
Yesterday was a quiet day in which I got to spend some quality time with my hooks. My husband requested a pair of warm and cozy slippers for winter, so I picked up some blanket yarn while in the city for my medical appointment. I wanted to try something different, too, so I basically made up the pattern as I went along. I am very happy with how they turned out, so I plan to pick up more of the blanket yarn and do different sizes for myself and the girls.
We had rain all night and most of the morning, so it was pretty damp when I did my morning rounds.
The cats inside even seem to be feeling it. This is what I woke up to.
It’s only 9C and dreary right now, and raining fairly heavily. Hard to believe we’re supposed to hit 28C in less than a week! It feels more like October than September.
So here is a photo from late June, when our feeding station was a lot busier with birds than right now!
I had an appointment at a nearby city to do a stress test. Part of the ongoing testing to try and figure out why my stamina has dropped so severely since last summer, and trace the source of my fatigue. This is one of the tests to see if there might be problems with my heart.
