Neil Bryan 🍁
@landingwell
Retired carpenter in love with wild places. Caring for over 100 acres of traditional territory of Treaty 3, bordering the boreal forest and "crown" land. Trying to keep the river clean.
My lunch spot on a Vancouver Island solo hike, almost 4 years ago. This is a place of healing.
This Sandhill Crane family popped up out of the grasses as I passed by on the gravel road near my home, my SLR camera with telephoto with me this time. The other parent is still crouched on the ground out of photo. They zig zaggged away from me and disappeared in the grasses behind their parents.
A bumblebee multi-species party this in our raspberry patch this evening.
Our Great Pyrenees 5YO girl lives outside all winter here in SE Manitoba, and her beautiful fur just rocks! But it would be an unending chore all spring/summer/fall to comb through her double coat after all of the often numerous ticks. So we go with anti-flea-tick pills 4 times a year. A HUGE help!
July 10., 2010. Winnipeg Folk Festival Mainstage. Markéta Irglová, Glen Hansard Swell Season
By middle next week you're getting this as a forecast model for total precipitation and total snow. Then longer range looks like another river starts in a week. Weather models complements of weather.cod.edu/forecast/ Happy safe, dry, warm hunkering!
A sit at the river's edge, then a half mile river trail hike! This and deep boreal forest paths are my daily walking routes with Terra. Stepping out my door with her, which way today? What are your fave dog walking paths?
Just do it. Your descendants will thank you. Image source: Google street view screenshot clip, Mawsynram, India. The wettest place on earth.
I often run a random slideshow on one of my home monitors, and grab goodies from over 30 years of digital photos, 7,500 just in my cellphone camera album. I have a homelab server running an Immich service. There's about 200GB/40,000 personal photos in there. Like this one, from a few months ago.
What's up? A neighborhood owl, that's what. From my evening dog walk yesterday.
A goldenrod crab spider or flower (crab) spider hunting in the grow. She's turned green for camo. They go chameleon and grab prey with those 2 front legs, then use venom to immobilize them. Called crab spiders because they can walk sideways.
An indigo bunting stopping by our yard May 2013. I remember it being very shy and difficult to photograph. Even these fail to capture much the iridescent indigo hues.