More sunrises, flowers and grasses as the epidemic caution continues. The first gallery is from a sunrise at West Bank Park on Lake Lanier and some shots of leftover rain when I returned home.
The second gallery is more stuff from the yard and some from the native plant garden at the greeenway trailhead.
This will be a single post for the month because I have not been able to get out very often due to the ongoing epidemic. On top of that, the sunrises have often been clouded over, with little to no color. So one shoots what is available, and that was often the dewdrops or raindrops on the lawn or shrubs. I struggled to find a way to steady myself for the macro shots that are too low to use my tripod, finally settling on a 2×4 under the camera and my elbows on the ground.
The epidemic continues, so I’m not getting out as much as I’d like, limited primarily to some sunrises and what I can find around the yard.
We had a number of days of partly to mostly cloudy skies with good chances for rain. That meant the sunrise sky would likely be cloudy and reflective. So I got up and went to West Bank Park to see how it played out. The results were excellent.
The first gallery if from the morning of 8 July 2020. The second is from the next day, 9 July 2020. The third is from July 15.
Up early yet again for the sunrise, and again was all alone at West Bank Park on Lake Lanier. The color was just beginning to show as I arrived, built up to a really amazing peak, and then faded to very little as the sun came over the horizon and clouds.
Up very early for a sunrise shoot on the water of Lake Lanier. An OK but not great sunrise, but we did find a heron.
A hike with the Sonny Day Hikers along a piece of the Appalachian Trial from Testnatee Gap up the mountain to the east. We had intended to hike to the Whitley Gap Shelter but got a bit confused about our location and the trailhead. Still a good hike although foggy for much of it.
Also a sunrise over Lake Lanier. Not the greatest but better than many.
And lastly a shot of raindrops on a hosta stem one morning.
Continuing to stay at home with few exceptions. I get up for the sunrise since that is so early few are out and about at that time. Other than that, I have hiked once, foraged for food and drink, and occasionally gassed up the car or truck. These pictures are from the 10th to the 13th of the month.
In early June we are still staying home much more than normal. I did go out a few times as the parks begin to re-open and the crowds are not large.
As the shutdown and re-opening proceed, I’m still not going out much since the statistics don’t show the sort of improvement I want to see. So mostly I have limited myself to the yard. I did make an exception to go boating on Lake Lanier in search of Great Blue Herons. We did find some nests, and there were young herons in one of them. I also discovered a hornet nest being actively constructed right outside the kitchen window. It is now gone. 🙂