nature

Fuzzy on the trail

As seen today on an unusually warm late May afternoon.

This could grow into some cosmic horror, for all I know. But right now, kind of cute!

EDIT: Nic is less lazy than I am and has identified this as a forest tent caterpillar. It grows into a forest tent caterpillar moth, which is an extremely on-the-nose name.

Dinosaurs clash (and other photos)

From around the neighbourhood today:

Prehistoric battle on Fader Street, shot with my prehistoric iPhone 12.
Lower Hume Park looking very green and jungle-like, thanks to perspective.
Wildflowers.
Brunette River, looking east.
Brunette River, lookinhg west. The vegetation is now hiding the construction of the SkyTrain maintenance yard.
Light and shadow in Lower Hume Park, ready to be a phone wallaper.

A few shots around Burnaby Lake, April 30, 2025

Taken after my run on my iPhone 12, which I’m getting closer to going from joking about replacing to actually replacing.

And it won’t be with another iPhone.

But now, the pics!

Still Creek with bridge
View from bridge
Still Creek, looking north
View from bridge over Seer Lake Brook
Lily pads reclaiming the lake
Still Creek with bonus goose

A frosty log

Which my iPhone rotated to portrait mode, as it sometimes does when it doesn’t have a horizon line or something for reference, so I had to decide if I liked it better in portrait or if I wanted to rotate it back to its original landscape.

I left it as is. Enjoy!

Windstorms, summer vs. winter

Windstorm aftermath, December 26, 2024:

Gate shortened for cyclists, original paint showing through.

There is a little bit of debris farther up the trail, around the bed, but just a few twigs and things.

Windstorm aftermath, August 29, 2015:

Original, uncut gate. Plus a million pieces of debris.

The primary difference, of course, is that in August the trees have all their leaves on them, which makes branches heavy and…dangerous. On this day, I actually noped out of trying to navigate the trail, though the storm had passed at this point.

More leaves

Again, I had to crop out my feet in several shots. I don’t have big feet, they just have a tendency to be intrusive.

Not as colourful as the last batch of leaves, as fall trundles toward winter.

Leaves!

Leaves!

Leaves!

With bonus stones!

Trees and the river, June 9, 2024

A few photos I took on a pleasantly warm and sunny late spring afternoon with an iPhone 12 that Tim Cook is really hoping I’ll upgrade in September.