To say that the property is littered with lizards is understating things to a serious degree, since they can be seen nearly everywhere when the day is warm enough and the sun is out, and I’m used to seeing them scampering away around the edges of the house, shed, and greenhouse – in fact, I have to regularly check the shed to see who’s gotten locked inside because, if the door
Category: Photography
A batch of autumnal monochroma
“Wait, monochrome?” you say, “As in, black and white? Al, you fucking moron, fall is the time to exploit the colors, not eliminate them entirely. What, are you trying to be avant-garde or poetically ironic or something equally spastic?”
Which hurts, I admit it, even when I wrote it myself. But I saw the possibilities of some of these, which worked better than most of what
Next batch of autumnal chroma
“Autumnal” – that’s where Radar O’Reilly is from, isn’t it?
Now on to part two of the recent fall color pics, most of them from right here at Walkabout Estates Plus, but a few from a downtown park. Like this one:
We actually saw this same tree last time – this is just a different spot on it. Making sure to use the backlighting, of course.
The
I am not to blame
Listen – we haven’t seen a single bunny rabbit in the yard since we moved here. There have been a handful of fawns, and you’ve seen them all. No lambs, no kittens, certainly no red pandas or meerkats or bushbabies or quokkas. Assuredly, if there were, I’d be photographing them, but I can only snag what I see, and the cute ones are few and far between. It’s
First batch of autumnal chroma
Boy, do we have a gout of photos to get through now! They’re going to be spaced out a bit, so perhaps they’ll last the week, but a few days at the least. And that still doesn’t count some (a lot of) video clips to edit together. So let’s get started.
This year we have a decent selection of fall colors, almost all of them local – and this was after I was concerned that
Estate Find XLV
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming back our old friends – unless of course they’re not actually our old friends, in which case we welcome some new ones, even when they’re not as friendly.
As I said in the video, the Canada geese (Branta canadensis) have been missing from the environs since May – the last time they appeared was to
Rush out there now!
Or, don’t – I’m about to show you why not.
So, once again the media is hyping a ‘supermoon’ for the full moon going on right now, which means a full moon very near the moon’s closest approach to the earth, or perigee. “The biggest and brightest moon for all of 2025!” or even longer periods, and such articles pop up all the time. We have a very clear
It’ll taper off
I’m in a rut and I know it – there’s not a lot I can do about it, but there’s content at least, by a real human being too. Soon enough, these subjects won’t be visible for a while. I think.
First though, we revisit the end of month abstract – one of them, anyway. On the night that a persistent mist hung in the air, making the headlamp appear to be shining through
Kill the stage lights on October
Yes, we’ve reached the end, which should be plentiful obvious if you’re in the US at least, as the frivolous but nonetheless enjoyable holiday rolls in. As we discovered last year, we see practically no Trick-or-Treaters here at Walkabout Estates Plus, which is kind of a shame – we’ll see what happens this evening.
But the End-Of-Month Abstract waits for no one! Well, except
S’rainin’
Or at least, it had been, for about three days solid I believe. While I wasn’t a fan of how often it rained in central New York, this weird North Carolina pattern of weeks of drought and then days of rain is unbalanced and not the best for the plants, but at least we have the rain barrels to try and even things out.
But while it was wet, I took a little time to use the conditions.
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