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Post by Strewthless on Aug 18, 2020 9:54:16 GMT -5
Mixed skies.  |
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Post by rozenn on Aug 21, 2020 12:00:20 GMT -5
Lush landscape in French Catalonia (eastern Pyrenees)  Moar mountain pics under the spoiler: Love birch-lined alleys!  Stormy skies  Evening light  Local fauna  Sign at trailhead says there are chamois, lynx, wolves and even bears. Saw none of those of course.  Birches <3  On another day, trying to go down a ski slope, but without skis.  Local fauna again  Looks like avalanche damage    Looks like we cannot ski.   Going down another slope, treeless disant landscape:  Watch out guys!  The fort was built under Louis 14th to keep the Spanish at bay.   |
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Post by rozenn on Aug 21, 2020 14:07:54 GMT -5
Pics from a hike, in the Pyrenees too. Landscapes are maybe reminiscent of parts of Colorado Steelernation ? August 19, 2020 Trailhead elevation: 1713 m (5620') Top elevation: 2921 m (9583') Total elevation gain: 1946 m (6385') Distance: 39.9 km (24.8 mi) Got up too late, it was past 10 am and the sun was blazing at the trailhead.   I remember waiting for a thunderstorm to end in this shelter as a kid, probably the most terrifying experience I've ever had with thunder.  Looking up. There are usually lots of chamois and bighorns in these mountains, most likely seen much earlier, around 6-8 am.  And off we go!  The real tsar bomba actually landed in French Catalonia. Please note the elaborate anti-bomb device:  Will have to go up the mountain in the middle later in the day as it's a loop hike.  Approaching the largest lake in the Pyrenees:  Looking the other way:  Not your kind of landscape if you like trees  At the rear end of the lake  Moar desolate landscape  Gotta climb this slope:  Cairn at the pass  View on the other side:  Looking back at the pass  Nice flat valley further down  Looking back  Mooh!   The creek flows into another large lake:   Lakeshore trail   Yet another lake!   Methinks there should be water in there:  Yet another lake!  Yet another lake!  Nice view  Gotta climb up there: Yet another lake!  Yet another lake!  Gee the sun is already setting behind the mountains  The highest of them all, must be frozen Oct-Jun or something.  These are the only snow patches I've seen all day:  Getting trickier  At the top, looking north  Looking east towards all the lakes  Looking down Now the sun is really setting!    |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 21, 2020 14:31:39 GMT -5
Awesome pics rozenn. Love those desolate landscapes.  How long were you out there? |
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Post by rozenn on Aug 21, 2020 15:13:03 GMT -5
Awesome pics rozenn . Love those desolate landscapes. How long were you out there? Thanx! I was there from 10 am to 9:30 pm; it was really getting dark towards the end. I wish I had had the time to stop on the shores of one of the numerous lakes. Should've gotten up earlier! |
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Post by knot on Aug 21, 2020 20:18:17 GMT -5
Belting down with snow here, and straddling –1° C at midday:  Another snowstorm approaching on the VIC radar! |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 22, 2020 1:10:50 GMT -5
Superb shot! ^ knot . I can't wait for the first snow here. Sunset tonight here:  |
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Post by knot on Aug 22, 2020 15:47:32 GMT -5
Snowfall here pretty much at its peak for the event, measuring 33 cm in total:  Max temp was just 0.5° C yesterday. |
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Post by Babu on Aug 23, 2020 8:57:10 GMT -5
Photos from instagram: Visby is having a decent drought.  |
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Post by Benfxmth on Aug 23, 2020 11:39:48 GMT -5
Posting photos from the trip in southern Sicily from 2 weeks ago; while this trip was, in part, a business trip (for Noto), but the rest of it was for tourism. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pt. 1. Photos from Noto (taken on the morning of the 12th) The cathedral:  Palazzo Ducezio:  Monastery of San Salvatore:  Porto Reale:  Date palm; most of southern Italy has that cold African rock vibe jajajajaja...  No Italian town is complete without a fountain...  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pt. 2. Photos from Modica (taken on the 12th in the evening) Nice block-like look:  St. George's Cathedral ( Duomo di San Giorgio); nice subtropical vegetation:  Isn't that a jacaranda tree? @logan5  Views from Pizzo Belvedere:    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pt. 3. Photos from Scala dei Turchi (near Agrigento; from 13th in the afternoon). Technically the cliff was closed to tourists but there was no one to stop you so plenty of people (including me) on the cliff...I also went swimming for a couple of hours. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Post by Benfxmth on Aug 23, 2020 12:56:57 GMT -5
^^^^ Yep, looks like a Jacaranda. When do the flower there? - here can be anywhere from November to March, depending on how dry the spring is. I'm guessing they would be earlier in Italy. Nice photos. Certainly looks different. I haven't been in Sicily when they flower there, though it seems like they bloom in April/May; I might be wrong though. |
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Post by Strewthless on Aug 25, 2020 10:42:33 GMT -5
Gloomy as hell out there when the storm began to hit this morning. The city looked like something out of a Charles Dickens novel.  |
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Post by rozenn on Aug 26, 2020 14:01:18 GMT -5
So cute! Looks also like something out of a zombie apocalypse movie. Where are the people?! Autumn color beginning to show  This hornet ate a good chunk of the handrail while I was away.   |
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Post by Strewthless on Aug 26, 2020 14:05:22 GMT -5
I was there early, about 7:00am, and the weather was crap. I guess being from a massive city like Paris you're used to cities that "never sleep". Btw, why are your Autumn colours showing so early, what's the altitude? |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 26, 2020 14:49:25 GMT -5
Fall foliage already...  |
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Post by jgtheone on Aug 29, 2020 5:53:08 GMT -5
Went to the local national park today, it was very very green. Really nice to see.  |
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Post by Morningrise on Aug 30, 2020 11:37:58 GMT -5
A few quick shots taken in Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan yesterday evening, a small resort village about 120km (75 miles) southeast of Saskatoon. It borders Little Manitou Lake, which is unique in Saskatchewan for its very high salt content (about half as much as the Dead Sea) allowing people to float freely on the water. It started off quite hot (near 30C) when I arrived and then cooled down rapidly, with quite a howling wind the whole time.  |
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Post by ral31 on Aug 31, 2020 14:44:29 GMT -5
Pics of hurricane damage I took in/near Alexandria.   |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 31, 2020 20:58:33 GMT -5
Due to a car wreck, we basically had no time to explore on Mt Washington (and the people I was with weren't prepared or had it in mind to do much physical exertion), so I got barely any pics... @ ~1200m amsl  It was cool to see in person what Vancouver Island is more like, rather than just the thin sliver of populated land on the east coast. Although hiking some of the rough terrain would be better.  It was 14C and windy. Nice dry air too.  Ski hill  Nice alpine grasses  Next day, Sunday, went to Newcastle Island just off of Nanaimo. Upon arrival it was ~22C and cloudy with a random drop of water every few minutes. The mainland mountains looked nice under these atmospheric conditions.  An average looking temperate forest  This squirrel was furiously gnawing on this wood, never seen anything like it  Nice small meadow for rozenn to relax in with some French beers and the local insects   Nice path. It looked darker in real life though.  Firewood chopped by someone  Wicked arbutus trees...no idea what would cause such a uniform growth but they usually are not slanted like this.  Maritime oak savannah, fucken!  By this point it was raining pretty good and the temp dropped from 22C to 14C. Nanaimo on the other side   Better than Newcastle, NSW...I can tell you that   Got very close to this deer. It was not bothered at all by me.  It was looking for something...   On the eastern side of Newcastle island. Very desolate look  Same shot as the first, just 2 hours later after the rain had fully moved in.  |
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Post by rozenn on Sept 1, 2020 3:55:54 GMT -5
Nice pics! Landscapes look pretty varied. I was there early, about 7:00am, and the weather was crap. I guess being from a massive city like Paris you're used to cities that "never sleep". Btw, why are your Autumn colours showing so early, what's the altitude? Not sure how much fell but my guess is that it's drought-related. It's about 1300 m asl. |
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