eno river
Shutterbug Saturday: Feathers Part IV
In my last post on March 2, I was talking about sitting under my Hackberry tree and getting pelted with debris from a little woodpecker above me. I tried to get some shots of him but, they weren’t clear enough. My S7 just doesn’t do well with distance. That’s OK. I have other stuff.
02-19-2019
04-16-2019
Shutterbug Saturday: Frog Strangler Part I
Or, Toad Strangler or, Gully Washer… My dad was fond of the frog saying and my maternal grandfather always used the latter. All three are good descriptions of the storm that just swept through here, today. I haven’t seen this much water since Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Have mercy… ~Vic
The backdoor neighbor had his own mini-river.
Water from the next door neighbor’s poor drainage…
The Eno hasn’t crested, yet and, the water is at his backdoor right now.
One sewer access is over-flowing.
See my previous post on this.
Picture #2
More to come…
Foto Friday: Tuesday Evening Trek Part II
I suppose I should have labeled the first post as Part I but…I neglected. Oh, well… All photos are my personal collection except the very last one. ~Vic
Portrait angle of the same flower gathering.
Another flower group.
Bizarre rock pile beyond that.
So many lovely views…
You can see the rock formation I had to climb over on the right.
All that’s left is the base.
Circa 1905
Tuesday Evening Trek
03-12-2019
Flower garden along the Dunnagan Trail Loop.
03-07-1826 to 01-06-1914
Just missed her birthday…
I’m not as agile as I used to be.
This was a two-mile hike after an early dinner. More to come… ~Vic
Autumnal Equinox 2018
A beautiful moth in the butterfly garden of Gold Park.
These golden beauties line the walkway at Gold Park.
These look like a distant cousin of Coreopsis.
Baby pine tree.
That is a handcrafted bee hotel at Gold Park.
One week ago, the Eno was completely out of its banks.
Soothing sounds. I could listen to this all day.
It was a wonderful walk. There was a breeze and the temperature was in the higher 80s instead of the 90s. Fall is finally here. The local trees’ leaves aren’t changing color just yet but, many are ‘leaf dropping’, including the huge Maple tree in my front yard. I sat in my Adirondack for a couple of hours, journaling. I look forward to the mosquitoes leaving. They are still here. ~Victoria
The Autumnal Equinox for this area of the Northern Hemisphere was at 9:54pm EDT.
From www.almanac.com:
Why is it called ‘an equinox’?
The word comes from the Latin aequus, meaning “equal” and nox, meaning “night”.During the equinox, the Sun crosses what we call the “celestial equator”. Imagine a line that marks the equator on Earth extending up into the sky above the equator from north to south. Earth’s two hemispheres receive the Sun’s rays about equally. The Sun is overhead at noon as seen from the equator, so at this point, the amount of nighttime and daytime (sunlight) are roughly equal to each other.
From www.timeanddate.com:
The Snake of Sunlight
A famous ancient equinox celebration was the Mayan sacrificial ritual by the main pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico. The pyramid, known as El Castillo, has 4 staircases running from the top to the bottom of the pyramid’s faces, notorious for the bloody human sacrifices that used to take place here. The staircases are built at a carefully calculated angle which makes it look like an enormous snake of sunlight slithers down the stairs on the day of the equinox.
