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Post by Morningrise on Mar 25, 2019 19:56:27 GMT -5
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Post by rozenn on Mar 26, 2019 15:50:40 GMT -5
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Post by Hiromant on Mar 27, 2019 12:33:57 GMT -5
There's still some snow in shaded areas but the dry, sterile and sunny time of year is definitely here. I like it.  |
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Post by nei on Mar 28, 2019 18:05:34 GMT -5
Boston photos from almost two weeks ago. Old State House, built 1713, held the colonial-era legislature. Also has a subway station entrance inside it  waterfront  St. Patrick's Day is coming  looking across the water to downtown Downtown crossing, a pedestrainized shopping street downtown, just before dusk. Seemed busy on a Friday evening but not super crowded like Manhattan would be  another view, wish NYC had some blocks like these sunset on the Boston Common, city park adjacent to downtown  current Massachusetts legislature building stands tall at one end of the park. center part and dome is from late 1790s sides sometime much later in the 19th century  it was a nice sunset  next day, much colder. Windy following the cold front. In Somerville; in neighborhoods 3-5 miles out of downtown Boston. Lots of wooden homes; most actually hold several apartments. Boston neighborhoods outside the city center are typically wooden homes, often small apartment buildings. Looks like a much denser version of a New England town.  I like the side of that blue building in the distance  I see boobs here. Are photos of boobs allowed on the forum?  Dense but not tall buildings. Fairly quiet outside the commercial streets  couple more   |
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Post by Hiromant on Mar 29, 2019 8:20:17 GMT -5
Not my photo but currently there's a cool "fifth season" going on in swampy, low-lying Soomaa where meltwater can flood up to 200 km 2 of land every spring.
First barbecue today, a nice sunny 9°C. Still snowy in some places though.
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Post by Babu on Mar 31, 2019 7:29:07 GMT -5
I don't really have much motivation for uploading images anymore, so here are a few from the last week. This was on Tuesday. Apparently only a couple of degrees above freezing but it felt really warm and springlike despite the pretty massive snow walls.  Very thin snow cover in this spot already back then though. Not really sure why there's so little snow in this particular place. I remember last spring this lawn was covered in only ice and no snow way before the general snow cover was gone. Doesn't really make any sense; it doesn't have a particularly warm local geography. Since then a lot has melted as well. I'd expect pretty large circles of grass around the trees now, like 2-3m diameter.  Went into a forest with friend and woofer pupper.  Very muddy now, at least on this dirt road. ![]()  Swan  A lot more water in the creek now compared to when I looked last time.  Beaver?  River ice is wet  Even some open water.  |
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Post by Moron on Mar 31, 2019 7:58:04 GMT -5
Not many of my photos wanted to upload so i'll upload the ones that did. Also a brief geology lesson! Geology trip to Albany, Western Australia Whalehead Rock   Cordierite, a rare mineral located in a metamorphic rock of sedimentary origin (paragneiss for the geologists out there).  Sample found on the outcrop of Epidotite, a hydrothermally altered section of granite turned into epidotite (notice the very rare mix of pink and green minerals).  On the slopes of Mt Trio looking northwards over farmland (and geologically speaking the southern edge of the 2.5-2.8Ga yilgarn craton)  Pleasant weather at the coast for a couple of days; looking out to an island.  Inlet  The Gap  |
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Post by nei on Mar 31, 2019 16:46:47 GMT -5
Above Northport, NY  flowers are out  grass still more brown than green  |
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Post by nei on Mar 31, 2019 19:55:58 GMT -5
Friday evening, sunset  dead-end city street nearby  springtime! at least here, bulb plants come out early  a glimpse of sunset  another skyline view  |
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Post by nei on Mar 31, 2019 20:38:23 GMT -5
next morning. cloudy morning, willow trees budding by the Upper West Side Manhattan  Amtrak line passes behind. Old locomotive on display  more budding trees  on the west side of the hudson now   by the NY-NJ border. sun felt strong at 11 am; temperatures had risen into the low 60s  Piermont, NY  bike path further along the Hudson   Haverstraw  Now up to Bear Mountain. Last time I had cycled up, a guy recommended taking a trail up, said it was bikeable. Plus, I would get an extra nice viewpoint on the way up. Narrator's voice: it was not bikeable. Do NOT attempt to bike up the Appalachian Trail. It's not what you want. Started ok  got extremely steep, but I wasn't turning around. Far more work to walk my bike up very steep hills or carry it past rough sections. My arms are sore today from yesterday's bike hauling  at least I got nice views   one more, light was mediocre and not that photogenic at the summit  chatted with a nice local cyclist who had grown up in London. Passing through Highland Falls  hilly getting out of town    Storm King Highway was closed. I could get my bicycle around the fence, so I had no traffic!  closure was because of a boulder. Freeze and thaw cycles in the winter loosen rocks, creating rockfalls  some ice patches on the roadside remain  final stretch of road up visible  almost there  Breakneck Ridge on the opposite shore. great hike, posted photos of it  looking back south  north. very windy, mostly from the topography. beginning of the descent I felt the wind was pushing me   next town, Cornwall |
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Post by Babu on Apr 1, 2019 16:15:23 GMT -5
Lots of buds and catkins in Umeå now, although some of them started showing in February. Like these aspen catkins. They were already here in February.  I have no idea how I've never seen these during previous years. I had no idea aspen got these. And it's so strange because they're clearly visible from quite far away, at least 100m.  Lots of willow catkins now as well. There were some in early February (I even saw willow catkins on one tree in December), but there are a lot more now.   Alder pollen level is high right now. I think you can see why.  No birch pollen yet though  I apparently failed to upload like 7 or so shots to my last imgur album, so here are those.   There's a pond in the field now.  Old houses  Old houses with a classical Swedish fence.  Football season has started apparently.  Pretty decent melting, at least this day when the dewpoint was (ever so slightly) above freezing.  Snow is starting to melt in patches on lawns. Looks very much like spring.   Understorey is starting to show up in many wooded areas. (Look at the snow piles in the background though lol)  No one skiing today. I wonder if they're still open.  This time of the year is a lot nicer looking than mid-winter if you ask me. I like the more contrasty look of snow and bare ground mixed together, as well as a higher sun, compared to midwinter where all you see is just white (or grey if it's overcast and dark). Also, it looks like spring, which is nice.  Some places seem to still have at least 30-40cm of snow, like up here at the water tower. It's only 50-60m ASL, so it's not thicker due to altitude. I believe it's thicker because there's no wind in the woods there. When my ex and I walked the dog, we went here to get a reprieve from the wind.  I get overwhelmed by the sheer size of this thing when standing right under it. It isn't even that huge; barely 40m high if even that. I don't know, I just get awestruck looking at it.  (Nine of these are taken with a DSLR. Anyone wanna guess at which ones?) |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 1, 2019 17:55:16 GMT -5
This snowpile in the Lake Ången forest north-east of town wins the 2019 resiliency award! Taken on 30 March after two months well above freezing:  |
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Post by Babu on Apr 1, 2019 18:16:34 GMT -5
This snowpile in the Lake Ången forest north-east of town wins the 2019 resiliency award! Taken on 30 March after two months well above freezing: Lol I bet you Tavelsjö is going to have a snow pile in June |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 2, 2019 4:21:01 GMT -5
Lol I bet you Tavelsjö is going to have a snow pile in June Wouldn't surprise me, having seen Skellefteå snow piles at their peak in early March before! Here though, snow cover was limited to about 35 cm at its peak and still even the forest is all but clear. That and a few white patches in some ditches were all I saw. Even the post-thaw mud was largely gone and all water ice-free. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 4, 2019 13:23:57 GMT -5
Beautiful today  |
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Post by Hiromant on Apr 4, 2019 13:30:55 GMT -5
Couldn't get the focus on the finger quite right.
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Post by nei on Apr 4, 2019 22:20:33 GMT -5
some NYC photos showing bud progress. Sunday at sunset, Prospect Park  Manhattan next afternoon; street trees look mostly bare  on the High Line  nice clear blue sky, but rather chilly (mid 40s)  flowers   These xenophobic conspiracy theorists might be frustrated a lot of building approaching Hudson Yards  funky sculpture you can walk up; didn't have time  close-up [/img][/spoiler] yesterday in Brooklyn  Today in Manhattan near Washington Square Park, green starting to pop out   |
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Post by Babu on Apr 5, 2019 5:34:49 GMT -5
nei NYC had been pretty comparable to Scania this year except for extremes of course. LaGuardia  Malmö  Is NYC earlier than average for leafing?
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Post by Nidaros on Apr 6, 2019 7:59:26 GMT -5
Today April 6th in Trondheim. April is one of my favorite months! 
The person down to the left was talking in a slavic language, probably Polish as there are lots of people from Poland in Trondheim
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Post by AJ1013 on Apr 6, 2019 15:22:42 GMT -5
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