Beauty & The Burn.17
Although trees around where I stood when I took this shot *did* burn in the Nuns fire in 2017, the “burn” part of this photo is on the Mayacamas ridge in the distance – which, when I took this photo late last year, had just been burned again in the Glass Fire, after experiencing the Tubbs fire in 2017 at the same time as the south side of the valley, from which I took this photo, was burning in the Nuns fire. I remind us again that Santa Rosa hadn’t seen major immediately close forest fires for a few decades prior to 2017. Now we realize that with climate change, this is our life, and we rather desperately hope that both public and private policy and behaviors will speed their pace of change while we can still reduce the longer-term impacts on future generations and livability on the planet…
Small Wonders.17
Admit it: your first thought is this is part of some crumbling old building’s brick wall, right? Wrong! You’ve already seen another angle on this item, in a post last month, here: https://somuchworldsolittletime.com/2021/01/01/12443/#jp-carousel-12467
Small Wonders.15 (Urban Aviary, Volume 2)
This little guy buzzed so close to my head one morning just walking down the street in SF last week that I simply had to try to get an image and/or video of him flying around. Managed to get one adequate shot ad one adequate video — in the still, he’s on the top right, but so small and green that he disappears against the leaves. I apologize that I couldn’t find a way to shorten the first three seconds of this video, in which I’m rapidly trying to get him in the frame – but he appears around the fourth second and does his hummingbird thing then 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 