
A slightly different view, looking very calm. When the world is making you grit your teeth–as it so often does in the year 2025–find a place like this and just enjoy the calm, the green and the occasional random bird.
It’s been a bit since I posted some shots of the river. Here’s two.


A bunch of buttercups:

Brunette River, early spring look:

Lower Hume Park had several sudden ponds due to the rain over the past day and a bunch of mallards were there to take advantage of it. Better than swimming in the Brunette River, which was very shallow a few days ago and is very not shallow right now, as the photo below indicates.

Proof of ducks (and a crow). This is a crop zoomed in to 93% and the best you’re going to get on a crusty old iPhone 12:

Yeah, I already posted photos. Here’s more! These are scenery shots from today’s walk.




Everything about snow is bad, but it does make for pretty scenery shots. Here are a few from today.




But not very much. Here’s a log on the river trail showing the snowfall.

I feel like I have things to say, but I never really know how to say them, so I end up saying nothing. On the plus side, I’ve posted a lot of cats pics, which are the fuel of the internet.
For a change of pace, here’s the Brunette River, from a slightly different vantage point, as the river was quite low and I was able to sneak farther down than usual:
(Slightly altered in Luminar AI, mostly to remove the green runoff pipe and fix the sky a bit [but no giraffes])

I made some enhancements using Luminar AI (but resisted adding giraffes).
