Some days that I take photos, I don't end up shooting enough to make a full journal entry. I save up the photos from those days and when I have enough (typically once a quarter) I put them together as an entry. This is such an entry, for the fall of 2006.
Here's a shot from October 1, some spent flowerheads in a yellowy sun. |
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| The day after that, I caught my friend Smudge hiding in the garden. |
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| On the ninth of October, I went out to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary and found a whole lot of northern birds. For instance, this one is a Northern Harrier. |
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| This duck, probing in the shallow water, is a Northern Shoveler. |
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| ..and that's his Northern Shoveler ladyfriend behind him. |
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| On one of the paths in the refuge, I found this Northern Flicker. |
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| And my last shot of the day, on my way home, was of these Northern Pumpkins in a field on Westham Island. |
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On October 22, I was hanging out in the garden at my building when I found a ladybug. This was interesting because it wasn't the usual Asian Multicolored Ladybug, but rather a 7-Spotted Ladybug (Coccinella Septempunctata). This is a native lady, where the others are invaders. It was nice to see her. |
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| That same day, there was a nice cloudy colorful sunset. |
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| I took several shots of it at different points in time. |
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| All of these shots were taken from my balcony. |
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| Late in the sunset, the river picked up a lot of the color. |
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| On the 27th, I decided to try to work on my tree photography; trees are a subject that I have a hard time taking good photos of. I chose the little Japanese Maples in my building's courtyard as my subjects, and tried several different approaches and compositions. |
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| On my way in from that session, I found my friend and roommate Zippy waiting for me on the stairs to our place. |
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My car accident intervened, along with a few days of photography that became their own entries, and I didn't have any leftovers until a month later on November 27. We had a good fall of snow overnight, but the day came out light and crisp, and I took some landscapes from my balcony. The next three are of houses and condos across the river. |
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| And here's the boatyard that almost directly across. |
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| On the 30th, we still had some snow left, and we had a clear colorful sunset. This photo is in about the same direction as the last one, with the boatyard just left of center. |
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And here's one just showing the tip of Poplar Island. |
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On the 10th of December, I put up three CD shelves in my front entranceway to hold camera equipment. I took this wide-angle snapshot of my newly-well-organized-and-handy camera stuff, so that I could send it out and be the envy of all my photographer friends. I keep thinking about adding a fourth shelf above the others. |
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The final day that contributes to this entry is the 30th of December. This was my last day in Virginia and I was only outdoors for a little while, in my brother's backyard.
Here's a female Northern Cardinal, on their deck railing. |
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Next up is a Song Sparrow from the grasses around a creek behind the yard. |
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| Back by the deck, a House Finch eyed the sky as a vulture flew by. |
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And on the side fence, a White-throated Sparrow stopped to pose and bid me farewell. |
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And that completes my photography for the fall. I'll start the new year back in British Columbia.
Hoping all had a happy and birdy 2006,
Tom |
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