Wednesday Wanderings. #1

Hi everyone! It is a beautiful day here, sunny, south wind and it’s nice and warm. Some people here call this a hot day. Actually, a lot of people here call it a hot day. To be honest, I seem to be the only one here that doesn’t consider this a hot day. It is presently 77F (25C). I don’t consider it hot until the temperature reaches 86F (30C), or higher. Guess I’m kind of strange.

Oh well. Minor detail. I am showing some scenery photos from our latest morning trip down the highway. I will be showing some wildflower photos from the last two trips soon as well. Plus some insect photos, such as dragonflies and damselflies. I got some interesting photos of damselflies on this last trip. I have literally seen thousands of these small insects.

They are practically needle-like in size and somewhat similar to a dragonfly in appearance. Sort of. On this last trip I spotted two different species of these damselflies in colors I have never seen before, so that was interesting. But I enjoyed that scenery around the lakes we stopped at. It was just so beautiful, so serene, so tranquil, so peaceful. It would have been nice to stay there all day at one of these lakes.

I’m sure I could have found many more insects to photograph as well. Plus many other things. I can go and sit outside at the back of our building where there are benches and picnic tables, but it is not exactly peaceful. It is right next to the railway and those trains going by, constantly all day long, are not exactly quiet. Plus they are still working on the apartment building next to us.

They have been busy for the past year putting in new windows in that building. Then there is the non-stop traffic on the street. I never realized before, moving here, that this street was so busy. There is never a break in the traffic during the day and even at night it is quite busy except for the period between 2 and 4 am, when there is basically nothing moving out there.

Yes, I’m often awake during that time which is how I know. However, I have gotten used to the traffic noise at night so it doesn’t keep me awake anymore. Hmm, there was a reason for all of this. Oh yes, photography. With all the noise around it is hard to find anything around here for photography purposes. Oh well.

I was going to repot a couple of plants this afternoon, but I feel kind of lazy today. That’s one way of saying I likely won’t repot those plants today. Although I should anyway. It has gotten very windy out there. Bringing in that heat for tomorrow. Then it cools off considerably on Friday, with some rain, though not much.

There are a lot of forest fires again, some towns that had just returned from being evacuated are once again being evacuated because of more fires. We have more forest fires here too, but so far they are all further north. Oh well, guess I have wandered enough for today, have a great day everyone and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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