Show and Tell

I have been getting back into photography recently and taking lots of walks, part of my goal to spend more time outside, here is some of the photos I have gotten so far (Some are not edited yet).

I spent the morning visiting Crown Beach in Alameda. There is a roped off area to protect a historic Snowy Plover nesting site and I was hoping to see some. I set up just outside the ropes and the birds came to me, but I never saw any plovers. Still so many birds taking advantage of the closed area.

Another snowy walk, Camden gave up on walking & made me carry him as soon as the snow actually started falling. We stopped by my cute local village store that has fiddle concerts & knitting nights.I didn’t find any trash, which was nice. I’ve been working on reading the current book club book too.

I've decided to set myself a goal this year of getting out into nature at least one day a week, and taking photos of all the friends I find :) I'm hoping it'll help me get better at IDing local fauna/flora, as well as allowing me to appreciate our natural world! This is all from the past ~3 weeks.

Maybe one of the only good things about it being this cold is seeing all the super floofy birds from inside my house.

I've recently taken up spinning yarn, and I've been interested in supporting rare and endangered breeds! I finished spinning about 500g of wool from the Lonk breed, marked as "at risk" by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. This will likely become a vest at some point in the future.

I'm visiting family in California for a few weeks, and it's a world away from home! Lovely, sunny weather, mild temperatures and glorious sunsets, plus my family's elderly cat.

Pics from Land's End, Sunset Dunes Park, the Arboretum and the Japanese Tea Garden.

I'm in Northern California at the moment, visiting family. Earlier in the week, we drove down to Monterey and visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which I haven't been to since I was a kid. We spent a fun day visiting the aquarium–at least until I got sick. Oops. Still not back to 100% but better!

We had a small snowfall which was the right amount for a little dog who’s not a huge fan of the cold and I finally caught some snaps of a goldfinch who visits our garden.