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Post by nei on May 25, 2020 8:01:05 GMT -5
First two from northern North Vancouver taken two weeks ago during the first heat of the year. It's Mount B aker, which is pretty far away: YOU CAN SEE ALL THE WAY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY! Checked it's 70 miles away; Abbotsford and Chilliwack are much closer |
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Post by nei on May 25, 2020 12:14:45 GMT -5
bike ride yesterday to the Berkshires with short hikes  Deerfield River lined with leafed out trees. Fast change  lamb came out to see me  the rest followed  leaves getting smaller up here  new house being built in the middle of the woods; kind of a shame; but maybe doesn't harm much?  bad semi-abandoned road I wish I had chosen to bike on  short hike to Tannery Falls   hike up Spruce Hill, summit is at 2600 feet. Mt. Greylock across the valley. Adams in the valley bottom  Really buggy, full of gnats and black flies. Leaves coming out here. North Adams  Hoosac Range to the north  descend out of the Hoosacs back down to the Deerfield valley on Route 2. Forgot how amazing this road is. Driven it a few times, wasn't really paying attention carefully to the road and it flew by.   there was a 25 mph section; good sign it's a good road when a rural road is that low. Definitely curvy for a state highway  made it to Florida!   stopped in Shelburne Falls on the way back   |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 25, 2020 13:11:58 GMT -5
^That house looks like it's about to fall over. Ugh...
Nice forest pics. Also the one from the top is cool where you can see green gradually becoming brown as elevation increases.
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Post by Babu on May 25, 2020 15:58:01 GMT -5
First day above 13'C in over a month. 18'C or something like that which felt super nice, finally. Birches are finally mostly green, which means most trees are various shades of green now. Well almost all trees have some level of leaves.  Such nice and mild weather when I left work at 8pm. About 14'C  |
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Post by Babu on May 26, 2020 17:05:45 GMT -5
Quite a noticeable difference in leaf-out progress just between 9pm yesterday and noon today. Now pretty much all trees have leaves except for aspen trees.  Me and a bunch of my friends went to drink beer in the sun, though I didn't drink because I had work in the evening (and I'm not allowed to drink with my adhd medication either). |
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Post by Speagles84 on May 28, 2020 14:56:59 GMT -5
SPEAGLES84 TRIP TO NORTHERN PA MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2020 (May 22 - May 25, 2020)
Took some pictures up at my friends camp this past weekend. It was cold and rainy still (even at the unofficial start of summer in the USA, Memorial Day weekend). Picture from 2200' - Trees still very bare. Sunday we hiked to a vista at about 2100', Mountains in the distance approach 2600', valley below is about 600'. Huge difference in greenery from top to bottom - and even southern facing slopes to northern facing.
This picture could not be more Northern PA. Hiking up to the rocky summit Huge rock that reminded me of a Easter Island Face a bit. Near the summit there was a rock that was severed by glaciers, pretty cool to walk through Bigggg Rattlesnake we ran into on the dirt road back to camp trying to warm up.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 29, 2020 20:02:47 GMT -5
Went to Golden Ears park today. Way too many people even at midday. Temp was ~24C.  |
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Post by Strewthless on May 30, 2020 16:24:21 GMT -5
Couple of weeks ago. Had something of a drought, and the river dried up faster than any girl I've tried to flirt with.  |
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Post by Moron on May 31, 2020 4:48:00 GMT -5
Day at the beach Views looking north from South Cottesloe Beach   Damage from the storm   |
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Post by Ariete on May 31, 2020 11:34:38 GMT -5
Went to the national park east of Helsinki today with my mum, sister and the dogs.
The area nearby is typical Southern Finnish salt-of-the-earth rural landscape:  The road from the parking lot, or car park as they say in Britain was pretty good. The forestry service probably uses it:  Some birch has decided to do a pro gamer move and lean above the trail to get more ensoleillement:  Look at that aspen. One day before June and it's almost bare. Boke:  Looking down on ne of the few "hills":  Our destination was the lake in the park, and to get there the path got narrower and the forest more dense:   We sat down on the rocks by the lake and ate lunch. My mum is vegetarian and my sister vegan, so no KFC or similar. This was the view:  From southwest of the lake:  And south:  We took another path back which was more coniferous:  Came to this clear area. Most trees had been cut down ages ago. I guess this is an area cleared after a small forest fire:   Going back this was another peculiar area. On the left there's full-grown ass trees, and right an extremely dense area of young birches and maples. Probably a site of an old forest fire area as well:  The "hike" was around 6 km, temp was 21-22C and clear skies, as you can see. |
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Post by Babu on May 31, 2020 12:10:38 GMT -5
I'm surprised by how identical your pictures look to my county. Ariete |
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Post by Ariete on May 31, 2020 12:18:43 GMT -5
I'm surprised by how identical your pictures look to my county. Ariete
What did you expect? Palms and jacarandas?
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Post by Babu on May 31, 2020 12:44:44 GMT -5
I'm surprised by how identical your pictures look to my county. Ariete
What did you expect? Palms and jacarandas?
Other trees than aspen, birch and mountain ash + conifers |
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Post by Ariete on May 31, 2020 13:03:03 GMT -5
Other trees than aspen, birch and mountain ash + conifers
Well, it's a national park near Helsinki, so it's not historically the most lucrative farmland. Most of our forests are just like yours, the trees are just a bit taller and the undergrowth denser.
But it's been a couple of years, so I could do a hike to Ruissalo which is the largest oak-dominated forest in Finland. goo.gl/maps/MoySojFjxjmtyNK77
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Post by rozenn on May 31, 2020 14:48:38 GMT -5
Did some tourism in the nearby countryside yesterday, within the 100 km radius it's mandatory to stay within until Tuesday. Nice medieval house in the small town of Vernon:  Collapsed medieval bridge over the Seine, complete with a small house on it!  The grass looks dry already:  300+ ensoleillement hours this month. Cloudless sky again:  Evreux cathedral, one of the few buildings that weren't bombed to ashes during WWII:  Nice view from a village nearby:   Cherries are on time for June!  |
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Post by Nidaros on May 31, 2020 17:05:03 GMT -5
^A house on a bridge pillar??  Strange strange. Otherwise, my impression is that larger parts of France are becoming more mediterranean with that summer season steadily becoming longer and warmer. |
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Post by rozenn on Jun 2, 2020 16:42:48 GMT -5
^A house on a bridge pillar?? Strange strange. Otherwise, my impression is that larger parts of France are becoming more mediterranean with that summer season steadily becoming longer and warmer. That's for sure. Look at the state of the grass on the first day of summer  (yea, that's my finger):  Apparently that building is an old mill: fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Vieux-Moulin_(Vernon) |
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Post by nei on Jun 2, 2020 21:32:33 GMT -5
bike ride saturday. with a couple short hikes  more waterfalls and the rest of the ride |
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Post by rozenn on Jun 3, 2020 13:06:30 GMT -5
Pic taken from on the way back from work. Clouds!  Anvil clouds popping up southeast of my position rn:  |
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Post by Babu on Jun 5, 2020 11:23:06 GMT -5
Yesterday, around 10pm  22:27  Some shots from the last week |
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Strange strange.
(yea, that's my finger):
