2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

nah, I don't want to get shot by a trigger happy pig.   

Yesterday we did another trip, this time in the woods just above the village following an old path. The original idea was to pick up some mushrooms in the meanwhile (we live in an area with lots of porcini mushrooms ), but we weren't lucky on this regard.

Anyway, more or less we followed the direction indicated by the read line in this picture:



We started from a point at about 1000 m of altitude (we asked for a car ride for going up to the starting point, because we agreed that it was too hot for climbing 500 m and then returning back) and from there we returned back home crossing the woods, following the old path used for moving along the mountain side by the villagers in the past centuries. We took a couple of hours for returning back home, the real path is much less linear than the drawn one. More or less there are 500 m of altitude difference.

The old path was completely paved with large flat stones and had two small stones walls all along the sides. In some points the mountain rock emerges on the surface, and the path is basically engraved in the rock itself. Nowadays many parts of the path are not so easy to spot anymore, but the parts which are are still pretty impressive.





The wood is quite varied: in the broad-leaves areas, which are the most extended, you can find birches, chestnut trees, oaks, beeches, poplars, limes trees, ash trees, wild cherry trees, nut trees, hazelnut trees  and so on, the frequency changed a lot place by place.


Some other points instead don't manage to accumulate a deep layer of soil, and so tend to have only sparse small trees and bushes, or pines. From those points there is also a quite good view on the valley below:












The last part of the path is modern instead, it was re-made to allow the fire fighter to quickly reach the place with their vehicles in case of fire (it is quite close to the village already, so any fire should be extinguished as soon as possible). From this point a quite interesting stone wall is well visible.



Some water courses crossing the path:

Quite a flashy sunset in here today, the town just south of us has just had a good thunderstorm! We only saw/heard the lightnings/thunders and had a brief 2 minutes rain shower.



Some frames of the lighting part:








The combination sunset light + clouds was actually pretty dramatic, in comparison with the intensity of the thunderstorm:

Big photo compilation coming up: Earlier this week:











Time to go inside this yellow perimeter, to the left of the meadow but left of the yellow "i" as well:



















Here's the meadow, humid and hazy evening:

Bit different from my normal uploads since it's actually relevant to weather. I took the dogs for an evening walk last week and saw these clouds, I thought they looked very unusual. They suddenly straighten up as if drawn with a ruler, not sure how common this is?



Looks much better on the vid, despite my shaky camera work.

The drought has reverted a lot. Sad in my eyes. The mediterranean look was cool.
Before and after images a couple weeks ago and today:

pond after evening rain



really foggy a little higher up. The storm that had passed around 6 pm





afternoon cumulonimbus, can't remember a storm out of them anywhere





yesterday's storm in Northampton





that storm was at 6 pm, mostly missed Northampton was intense further north. Pop-up clouds around 1 pm

Impressive looking in Scandivania and la Baltique but can you top this shit?

It's fucken dry!!! No idea why they haven't cut this long dead grass. It looks like it could catch fire at any second. Other areas with shorter grass are just turning into dirt/sand. It's gonna have to rain a lot for normality to return here, because the first inch or so will just be absorbed by every surface.

nei the second sunset is better due to the more vibrant colours and higher detail.

This is at 8:23am this morning at my work and it was very smoky due to a barge up in flames on the Fraser river:


And this is at 5:03PM at the same spot but just farther ahead, looking in the opposite direction. The sun moved almost 180 degrees from the above picture:


A nice relaxing ferry ride between Vancouver and North Vancouver: