Pussy Willow Winter II
Once again our patio pussy willow is optimistically predicting spring. December a year ago I did a macro post on the cheery colourful buds of a pussy willow that that resides in a pot on the patio. This post concentrates on a single emerging catkin that came indoors where I could get a really close look at it through the bellows macro setup.
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Wicked Red
Another picture from over the holidays. One of the gifts I received was old Nikon film bodies and lenses. I took this picture at the dinner table shortly after opening the present using the adapter from the 24mm Nikkor lens that I always carry in my camera bag on a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 lens just to see if it would work, and it did, very well.
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Storm Drain D
This storm drain is well known to my frequent visitors and thus it appears again today, a numerically important day if you are round-minded (is that the word for someone inclined to rounding numbers?). I have decided to skip the numbering from Storm Drain III to Storm Drain D. I may go back and infill the missing 496 (CDXCVI?) for no other reason than Roman numerals are a lot simpler at the lower end of the scale). As it happens 496 is a “perfect number” and apparently important to string theory as well. So, why is it important to skip it?
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Bushtits, News Bringers
Bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus) are among our favourite birds. Even one of the dolls that lives here who is also a frequent blogger, is named after them. Yesterday it seemed as if they were deliverers of good news as well.
These birds are often seen on the feeder, and a true delight each time. They are often just a ball of motion, with can be seen only as a fringe of perky tails with not a corner of the feeder showing. They are there quickly and quickly gone.
Yesterday I was in the middle of photographing them when the phone rang – it was my daughter telling me of the birth of her daughter, our first grandchild. The baby was making little snuffling noises next to the phone – totally delightful. Naturally we went over to her house (she had a home birth) to meet the new member of the family, taking the camera. I did not even think about the camera settings so it is a good thing that they were appropriate to that task! One bonus was that it was set to multiple exposures in an attempt to capture the birds in flight (they move so fast I can’t think of any other way than sheer good luck to get them on the wing). That is a setting I just never use but I did get even more baby pictures than I set out to do! Had I not been ‘interrupted’, I might have a better in-flight shot, I was just working on that when the phone rang.
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Macquinna Arbutus
Last July I did as series of posts showing some wonderful clouds associated with a lightning storm. On that same day with its drenching rain, brilliant lightning and wonderful light I caught this moment as well. It is a local species of Arbutus that has evergreen leaves, and beautiful bark that peels off. This light shows it off to good advantage, even a young one like this.
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