A walk around Ardinning Wildlife Reserve this morning. The sky was clear! Frost had got rid of the mud problem. Bright & Still. How different from the recent rain & gloom. Even 8 weeks after I tested positive, the cold made my chest tight & I don’t feel fit.
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Another two ways of looking at the year’s flickr
A year ago yesterday I posted 2020 in a photo which was the result of a ds106 daily create. I ran my video of a year’s flickr photos through and script that averaged them and a slitscan processing process. Details on that post.
I decided to try the process with this years. I am not sure if the results are interesting or not. I did enjoy the process. This years photos stopped in October.
Here is the video again
and the results:
Here is the montage of all the pictures. I wonder if there are any other ways to play with the years set?
We had a walk round Ardinning this morning, first time I’ve had boots on since testing positive on the 12 November. 2 and a bit flat miles was enough! Muddy. Grey day with low clouds and a bit of rain. No wind at all!
For today's TDC... #tdc3633 #ds106 Robin Hood as a UK Cowboy? Make Folk Art https://dlvr.it/SFvcmT pic.twitter.com/dZtEdZ7Cmn
For me Robin Hood was the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood & The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), 1955-59
An excuse to grab some gifs:
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Another year another flickr video
Since 2014 I’ve been making “movies” with my flickr photos for the year. I make them with a script which downloads the years photos puts them together into a movie and, use to, add music. The Music bit is broken (https) so I downloaded some manually.
This year pretty much stopped in October, then I got covid in November and have not been out much since.
I also average the photos ( below) and montage them for the featured image. This year I made a version of the script to download wee square images for the montage (average & montage scripts here).
I enjoy both the process and watching my photos flickr by. I like the fact that I can easily tweek bit of the script or run the video creation again quickly to try out different speeds, music etc.
A bit of outdoor learning with my class this morning, I found this pretty wee mushroom.
First Clear day for a while, a beautiful moon this morning.
School Sycamore in the rain. Bright despite the weather.
Another photo from yesterday. I’ve not seen many bright days this autumn, but yesterday was lovely.
We had a short walk and a picnic today. First bright day this week. Ardinning was autumnal. Saw what was probably the last dragonflies of the year.
You can also have this for free: https://twitter.com/hanthethinks/status/1446748441292513280 pic.twitter.com/02Qxw880CL
lovely idea
Had a short walk around a couple of hills in Glen Fruin yesterday with Christine & Michael. It has been about 8 weeks since I was on a hill and I got quite puffed on the up.
Autumnal Circle
Pupils @OLSPHigh using confidence arrows in maths to describe their achievements #pedagoofriday #maths pic.twitter.com/AC0s2HqRfm
Le Rouge et Noir (filtered) begonia
The last one is dithered greyscale.
For today's TDC... #tdc3530 #ds106 Make A Car On The Love Train https://dlvr.it/S7MTcM
#tdc3530 #ds106 for me it would need to be a gif train
Common Blue Damselfly & Common Darter at Ardinning yesterday. Also saw very large dark blue dragonfly.
Kilpatrick Muir today, heather very much in bloom, few butterflies about despite the overcast weather. Peacock & Green Veined White.
WordPress Patterns
Common Blue 
White (green veined or small) 
Small Tortoiseshell
I just switched to the block editor to test out the new WordPress Block patterns feature.
You go to the pattern library, copy a pattern and paste it into your editor. I did that here and replace the 3 images that it came with. I added some captions. Using this pattern.
Here is another pattern.
And the days are not full enough.
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
– Ezra Pound
I don’t think I am quite ready for the Block Editor yet but these look interesting.
Gartnavel Walled Garden, in gentle rain. Shortly followed by thunderous downpour.
Circle, red
Raven
The Dabchicks in the park have had at leat a couple more chicks. I couldn’t really see them just took some photos.
A walk along the canal, east of Anniesland. Beautiful day, water really clear could see roach. Masses of flowers & bees. A couple of ravens on the gasometer. A sparrowhawk flew close to the surface & edge before flipping up, over the path & through the trees. A paraket too.
Blue-tailed Damselfly, Forth and Clyde Canal
Small White or Green Veined White? Seems it is hard to tell from this angle.
Smoke & Light, barbecue in the park
Dabchick & chick. Only one chick at the moment but the adult’s partner seems to be stuck on a nest.
Barassie Beech yesterday. Bright & Breezy. Butterflies, common blue, grayling, ringlets, meadow browns & small heath.
Marvellous bright flora, harebells galore. Ringed Plover and chicks, it is amazing that these can hatch given the number of dogs, crows & gulls around.
