May 4th, 2007
summer skies
We’re finally having some great weather here – sunny skies and temperatures around 18C (64F) and it’s supposed to become much warmer next week. No doubt, the mosquitoes will be making their appearance en masse any time now! We’re planning a weekend of hiking, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting over the next couple of days, but no doubt, I’ll be back with some interesting photos after the weekend.
Just a short post today as I have quite a bit too do around here. Our tree order was ready for pickup at the Ferguson Forestry Centre, so Don brought it home yesterday. I’m planning to plant everything today if my back holds out. It’s just a very small order this year: 20 Hemlock, 10 Silver Maple, 10 Bitternut Hickory, and 10 Red Oaks. The trees are fairly small – usually 2 or 3 year old stock – so not too difficult to plant. It’s always more a case of figuring out the best spot for each. I’ve wanted to plant Hemlock for several years, but the available stock changes from year to year, and Hemlock seemed to be in short supply. It’s nice to finally get some, but the amusing part is that they won’t really grow to be much in what remains of our lifetimes.
Anyhow, I must get to work, but here are a couple of “sky shots” taken over the past couple of days (click on each for a larger view). In the top one, we’re just leaving the poplar woods and Sabrina is looking across the field in the direction of our house. It’s in the pine trees in the distance. I thought it was such as great sky that day – so blue and with wispy white clouds along the horizon. The photo below was taken out the bedroom window at sunset. That’s been the view the past three nights — the sky has been almost the same each night — a wonderful deep indigo shading down to a golden glow along the horizon. The butternut and poplar trees on the north side of the house are silhouetted in such a way that the scene reminds me of a leaded glass window or lampshade. The past two nights, the huge flock of geese that are hanging out in the nearby fields have flown over the house at sunset — just above roof height. Both times, I’ve been too slow to grab the camera and get to the window, but take my word for it…. it has been an awesome sight. The birds are so low that, with the window open, I can hear the whoosh of their wings as they barely clear the roof top and fly in a “V” onwards over the tops of the trees in this photo – the geese all silhouetted black against the indigo sky. If we continue to get these great sunsets, I’ll keep trying for a photo to share with you.
