Lightning

You'd think with this summer of rain and storms at night that I'd get plenty of opportunity to practise what I've learned with long exposures and get a few shots of lightning. No such luck. The spectacular flashes that I used to watch from the window just haven't appeared this year, it's as if the fates are laughing at me and directing the storms around me, out of range of my lens. Last night we had a couple little storms pass over, I managed to catch one measly little sparkler.

Loon Chase

Seems kind of late in the year for loons to be chasing each other, but these two were at it August 17th. Looking at time stamp on my camera, start to finish of photographing them, that was 15 minutes, and the chase started at least 2 minutes before I got down to the dock. If I had known it would last so long I would have hopped into my canoe and paddled out a bit further for some better pictures, this shot is about the best of the lot.

Downy Yellow Violets

A discussion on the nature list reminded me to check on how the seed pods of our downy yellow violets were progressing.