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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 15:53:02 GMT -5
Horsetail ferns look like something out of Morrowind, or an alien planet!
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Post by Babu on Mar 27, 2020 17:16:45 GMT -5
More spam incoming It was 12'C on Wednesday. There was even a few hours of sunshine as well, and not that windy!  Very wet and icy in this park in the city center  I went and visited one of my favorite woods in the city.   No idea what that concrete block in the river is, but in the summer you can swim over to it if you want and... Sit on it?  Some more urban related pictures. Rate the Umean architecture. City skyline:  The most central park  The most central building complex right by the central bus station. I'm really curious what you think of this look.  Day after that was 7'C and nearly a blue dome sky. This is the city lake. Very blue.  Decided to walk the 8km home from the girl I slept over at.   Don't know what this plant is up to  Found tulips too! Against a wall, of course, but still. Normally tulips don't show up until late April or even May.  Also found ducks.  View from the hospital hill overlooking the central parts of Umeå.  Very nice area, right in the middle between the city center and Uni area, but unfortunately, right now, the closest grocery store is like 1.5km away. Unacceptable really. But in a couple years they're building a huge supermarket right by.  "Art campus" (for some reason smack dab downtown instead of at the Uni area 1.5km away)  |
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Post by Moron on Mar 28, 2020 7:09:50 GMT -5
Really good pics baba. I'm liking the quality of your new camera. I do love the short transition between built up areas and the woodlands around Umea.
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Post by Moron on Mar 28, 2020 7:24:24 GMT -5
Went for a ride around the Swan River in Perth today. Around 40-45km loop. Looking over the riverside southern suburbs:  The Perth City Skyline on a cloudy, breezy day:  View from Peppermint Grove easterwards towards Perth:  A locally iconic bridge over the railway at Leighton Beach:  |
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Post by Speagles84 on Mar 28, 2020 15:46:03 GMT -5
Snow to Severe Thunderstorms in the span of 1 week |
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Post by Babu on Mar 29, 2020 13:07:03 GMT -5
The sky was really beautiful this evening  Some more shots: The new central bus station  Not a lot of people downtown at 7pm on a sunday   Went up to the roof of the new library to get a nice view of the sunset. There were a bunch of kids listening to Eminem while box sparring up there  There were a lot of snow and graupel/snow pellet showers.  Then I was hit by one of them  |
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Post by nei on Mar 29, 2020 21:58:33 GMT -5
ride yesterday  |
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Post by Hiromant on Apr 1, 2020 1:08:08 GMT -5
April threw us a little zinger. I wish there had been this much snow in January.  |
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Post by nei on Apr 2, 2020 22:06:17 GMT -5
snowed Monday before last; went for a walk Tuesday morning  |
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Post by nei on Apr 2, 2020 22:09:01 GMT -5
hiked up Mt. Greylock Saturday before last. at the trailhead  on the way up  snow got deeper  wind swept the snow off the summit leaving brown grass    haven't noticed this waterfall before, maybe water levels were higher? |
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Post by Wildcat on Apr 3, 2020 18:03:21 GMT -5
Taken at a local park today. 66°F (19°C) with low humidity, ideal walking weather.  |
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Post by nei on Apr 4, 2020 15:11:50 GMT -5
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Post by Wildcat on Apr 4, 2020 20:32:33 GMT -5
Fort Boonesborough State Park  |
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Post by Morningrise on Apr 5, 2020 13:53:31 GMT -5
In contrast to all the people who have posted shots of scenery that actually matches the season, here are some shots from a walk in the woods near Saskatoon this morning after having received 5cm of snow yesterday. It was around -8C when these were taken, but with no wind thankfully.  |
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Post by Babu on Apr 5, 2020 14:45:47 GMT -5
Yesterday was forecast sun by WO and clouds by SMHI. Morning and noon was clear, with some graupel showers in the afternoon. I walked home and visited a playground I used to love to visit when I was a kid  Man, imagine living in this house, 3km from the city center.  Today was a 4'C blue dome sky with 60% of the normal ozone thickness. A small flock of swans and another nice house  Despite the 32.5° sun angle, the UV index was rated at 3 by Temis.nl and 4 by SMHI. I decided to take advantage of the ozone hole and the two inches of snow that fell a couple days ago and sunbathed for a few hours.  Then I got bored and wanted to walk some.  The bird cherries have started getting really large and noticeable buds (as seen in the top of the picture)  After having walked west for a little while, I turned back and headed homeward again. A lot of people out, like these two enjoying the white sandy beaches of the Umeå river.  Or this family, doing the same.  Pines, kinda rare on the northern side of the river actually.  Because normally, there's just a bunch or broadleafs.   I was crossing a snowy field and stumbled upon these tracks. There weren't any human footsteps anywhere nearby so it must be a fox, not a dog. Didn't expect there to be a lot of fox around those parts. Don't they normally prefer conifer forests over agricultural fields and spindly broadleaf forests?  As I was looking down, I also noticed this spider in the middle of the field trying to get across.  A lot of birds on the river, but not even remotely close to as many as last year when there were literally hundreds of swans and canada geese in one spot.  |
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Post by Donar on Apr 6, 2020 15:28:24 GMT -5
From yesterday, my parents' garden is a much better quarantine than my cell in Aachen.  |
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Post by Babu on Apr 6, 2020 18:00:17 GMT -5
My friend and I took his dog to the arboretum. We walked along the river until it forked and the northern side was full of ice and the southern side clear. Obviously due to the sun being higher the further south you go.  Took a coffee break on the bridge, as is tradition nowadays.  The arboretum really is beautiful, even in the dormant season  Though not dormant for much longer  View over the mostly frozen rapids  Then we headed into the arboretum   When the dog tried to cross this patch of wet ice, it started sliding down the hillside out of control (eventually managed to get back without any harm). I was hoping the same would happen to my friend, but unfortunately he made it across in one piece  Looks like mother nature had taco bell the other day  This was a nice pic if I may say so myself  I climbed a 15 feet tree stump. I like having huge logs up my ass.  A view over the river  The fields over here were completely covered with snow. Very weird. Just a couple kilometers closer to the city, pretty much all fields (that are large enough) are bare.  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 7, 2020 18:27:22 GMT -5
Went to Squamish today. Didn't get any amazing pics but it was gorgeous there. No spoiler since its just two pics. Looking west  Looking east  |
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Post by Donar on Apr 8, 2020 15:31:50 GMT -5
Went to the local forest today, found an impressive ivy: The ground is quite dry.
Though the swamp is still wet: Wild cherry blossom: |
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Post by Speagles84 on Apr 10, 2020 15:13:59 GMT -5
April 10, 2010 - Winter gives one last fight in Western Pennsylvania.  Yahya Sinwar "iT dOeSn'T sNoW iN yOuR aReA iN aPrIL" Speagles84 "^^^,  ' |
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