Brunette River

Hydrants!

Two hydrants1Photographing hydrants has become a thing in the gaming group Discord channel, don’t ask me why or how, but I somehow started it I saw yesterday, one with a handsome yellow/red/black colour scheme, the other out of order for unknown reasons. Plus bonus scenery.

Handsome!
Sad and neglected.

And the Brunette River, looking ever more lush as we head toward the midway point of spring:

A pretty river, April 22, 2024

Shots of the Brunette River, taken on a pleasant April afternoon.

All photos taken on my iPhone 12. I actually had my camera with me in case I saw a bird of paradise, but I was too lazy to actually take it out of the bag. I am a bad photographer.

More spring springing, 2024 edition

Brunette River showing more green along its shores, plus a bonus great blue heron in the lower-left corner. Ignore the bit of the new SkyTrain maintenance yard construction also on the left. As the vegetation does it thing over the next few months, most of that should be blotted out, preserving the illusion of untouched nature.

I like these kinds of illusions.

I touched a tree today

And it allowed me to get this shot of the Brunette River. It was also drizzly in that “doesn’t seem like you’re getting wet but end up soaked by the time you get home” way. But worth it, because I touched a tree.

A river rages, plus birds in a field

Shot yesterday (Jan. 23) on my iPhone 12, on a gray, wet winter day.

The Brunette River, misty and rising. The tent on the far bank is now gone.
View from the bridge on North Road. The construction on the left is for the new Millennium Line maintenance yard, set to open in 2027.
Ducks in the field at Lower Hume Park. The crows and gulls got very twitchy when I stopped to take photos. The ducks just kept sticking their heads in the muck.

A trip to the pseudo-marsh

We just had one of those fun atmospheric rivers come through the area, and they always live up to the name, dumping huge amounts of water before moving on.

This afternoon I made a trip with my camera to Lower Hume Park and found the field to be squishy, muddy, and very marsh-like. There were ducks.

And seagulls and crows. And up top, some golden-crowned sparrows and several elusive juncos. The light was not great, but I got a few decent shots (I’ll post more later). Here’s a crow I shot on the way back home:

As the crow perches.

And a shot of the still very high Brunette River:

Whoever is in that tent is pushing their luck.

A few shots after the Friday, November 10, 2023 windstorm

We had a windstorm blow through the area (as windstorms do) on the night of November 10th, a few days ago as I write this.

I went birding the next day and captured a few shots of the destruction while walking down the Brunette River trail.

First, the pretty. The wind yoinked a bunch of leaves off the trees, making the trail resplendent in fall colours:

A jogger in red heads down the yellow leaf road

And the destruction. This was the largest piece of debris on the river trail I saw, and definitely not something you would want clobbering you on the head at 70-90 km/h:

This was right near the entrance off North Road, so I saw the worst right up front

This rare non-run day shot from the top of the Cariboo Dam shows that the morning after the storm was actually pretty decent:

All quiet now, save for the mad dashing of squirrels gathering food for winter