Photo-a-Day Challenge

Winter???? Please, No!

My week in photos

I always work on my photo-a-day piece a little at a time during the week. I started this week with: Our neighborhood is easing into fall. By Friday, November was laughing at me.

Sunday morning temperature was 48F and it didn’t get higher than 63F during the day. With a brisk wind, it felt colder. But, it still felt like fall.

Syau and I walked about an hour before sunset. A few children were out trick-or-treating, and we found this Halloween chalking by two kids who live nearby.

My grandchildren consider themselves too old for Halloween now, although my granddaughter collected for UNICEF. She called for a donation from me and, of course, I gladly obliged.

November began with a silky fog over the lake and dozens of Whistlers waiting for breakfast. Some of The Quacklings and a few Muscovies came ashore a few minutes after I took this photo.

After the spring hawk frenzy with a family of four terrorizing our squirrels and ducks, the last couple of months have been relative hawk-quiet, so I was a little surprised to this hawk in a tree in our parking lot.

Last week I posted a photo of the turtles sunning on logs across the lake. Today, I noticed many Whistlers were there, too. Not a great shot but I still like it because of the Whistler in the center perched atop a turtle.

All the Morning Glories except this one have faded away. She continues to open each morning and close each night. But for how much longer? That question was answered on Friday.

Rain started Thursday night and continued until almost noon on Saturday, accompanied by winds gusting to 25 mph. The rain eased enough around 10 am Friday morning for Captain Argentina to feed the ducks. But, within minutes of this photo, we had a deluge. The ducks kept eating.

Mid-afternoon on Friday I got this shot of a White Ibis across the lake, hunkered down in the rain. He looks like a ghost, doesn’t he?

Today, Saturday, the temperature only reached a very cold 50F with stiff winds all day and rain during the morning. According to our rain gauge, we received 3.75 inches from Thursday evening through noon on Saturday. Not a surprising amount for July but unusual for November. Tonight we will be in the low 40s.

Poor Syau didn’t have many walks Friday and today, but I took her on an extra-long evening walk, despite the chilly dampness and hearty winds.

As I said at the start of this piece, November was laughing at me by the end of the week. Winter is definitely here — well, more or less. Jackets and scarves are hanging by the door. We’ll still have days in the 70s but we know freezing temperatures are around the corner.

© Dennett 2021

In July 2020, I started the Photo-a-Day Challenge to help combat the virus blues. I take photos every day and choose one (maybe, two) to represent the day. Then, add a one-or-two-word descriptor and maybe, some narrative. A simple way to observe and preserve.

Want to join the fun? It’s all about noticing and appreciating your environment and sharing it with us, as these photographers and story-tellers have:

Erika Burkhalter / Eileen Vorbach Collins / Anne Bonfert / Sasha Meyer / Tracy Aston/ Lisa Bolin / Juan O. Aguilera / David Wade Chambers / June Nguyen / Mia Verita / Susan Alison / LensAfield / Barbara Radisavljevic / Diana Lotti / Barbara Dalton / Kim Zuch / K. Barrett / Sandra Barrett / Shruthi Sundaram / Gustavo Mendez / Olive Wilson

(If you participated in the Photo-A-Day Challenge and your name isn’t listed above, please let me know.)

Please follow the Snapshot rules:

Lead with a photo/title and subtitle follow No more than 10 photos per post No more than 750 words per post Yes, we know that the photos are yours but you still have to state that they’re your work

And, have fun!