Picture-A-Week 2024 - Week 20

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, May 13 and Sunday, May 19.

 

Auroras last week.

 

What amazing thing will this week bring?

 

Whatever it is, snap a photo of it and share!

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[zackiedawg]

Some wetlands activity from yesterday's VERY hot walk (just a hair under 100 degrees with 85% humidity)...

 

Cattle egret with hungry chicks assaulting her for food:

 

A killdeer, walking the mud flats looking for food:

 

Momma wood duck still sitting on her eggs, like the week before:

 

Eastern screech owl closeup - the male was sitting high in a tree where he could watch his mate in the nesting box:

 

 

Purple martins hanging out above their nests - many many chicks noisily screaming inside, so I think they needed the break:

[pierces]

Well, that's officially that. We spent a chilly Sunday evening at Cal Poly Pomona, watching our oldest Granddaughter officially finish four years of hard work with a walk across the stage for her diploma. It has been four years since her last diploma walk and the world is a much different place. High school ended with masked students walking past masked teachers as we drove slowly past a makeshift podium. That was then, this is now, and the crowd was huge and noisy as we all celebrated the effort and dedication that the graduates put into developing the skills needed to succeed in big, scary world the just stepped into. Congratulations, Hailee! You are bright and beautiful and maybe, just maybe you can make the world a little more like you.

 

Brave New World

 

 

 

 

Dave

[PurpleHays]

On 5/19/2024 at 6:08 PM, zackiedawg said:

Some wetlands activity from yesterday's VERY hot walk (just a hair under 100 degrees with 85% humidity)

 

Yikes! Already? It's too early, though we're supposed to be in the 90s later this week.

[zackiedawg]

I'm hoping there will be a lull where it goes back down for a few weeks, then back to the summer routine.  But yeah, this typical summer weather definitely came early so far.  Most of this week it's been in the mid-90s - not quite as hot as the weekend, but still feeling like summer.  We had a fair amount of rain and thunderstorms over the weekend which occasionally cooled things down, but no rain since Sunday.