Up to Loch Humphrey. The usual route. Bright sunny, nice breeze.The hawthorn mostly out. St Marks flies lower down. Butterflies, peacocks, whites, orange tips and small coppers. A couple more to fast to recognise. A kestrel buzzed by swallows. Oak getting leaves at last.
The 100,000 gif on Ski Pi was published yesterday. These are gifs create by one of my PIs which are automatically uploaded to tumblr every 15 minutes.
I think it might be time to repurpose that pi or switch to video or something else. The process was more fascinating that the result. I need a better view perhaps.
Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)Dominique Schwartz reports on the water currently filling Lake Eyre. What is unique about this is that it is all just nature. Although locals fought an attempt in 1995 to introduce large-scale irrigated cotton farming on the Cooper, there has not been any other attempts. It makes me wonder about rew...
Great story Aaron, the linked webpage is beautiful too.
Shoplifters ★★★★☆ engrossing complex story, I think I missed a lot of the subtle points. Sweet, sad and though provoking. 📽
Watch the Birdie. Taken with @mynaturewatch Raspberry Pi camera
Read: Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple ★★★★☆ another lovely read. I like the way her stories don’t have an arc in the way a modern novel does. I am taking her books only occasionally as I am worried about running out. 📚
Walk with Christine.
A cuckoo kept ahead of us on the way up to the dam. A one point going down into the grass and then onto a rock with a large wooly bear in its beak.
A dozen Red deer on the way up from the dam.
At around 11 am, rain expected turned out to be snow, a cold half an hour. Brightened up a little after that.
A good day.
walkmapTotal distance: 12.46 miles
time moving: 5:33’31”
total time: 6:24’10”
moving speed: 2.24 mph
total speed: 1.95 mph
lowest point: 78 ft
highest point: 2299 ft
elevation gain: 4113 ft
elevation loss: 4137 ft
Walking up the metalled road to the Glen Finlas Reservoir a cuckoo went ahead perching on the telephone wires. At one point it went into the grass and then flew to a rock with a large wooly bear caterpillar in it’s beak.
Overtoun and Lang Craigs. Walked up to Black Linn this afternoon with Dorothy.
photos on the walkmap
