photo of the day | july 2023

[Huntn]

I hope everyone here had a pleasant 4th yesterday.

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At times it seems like I have to remind myself this is my favorite country, I’m so busy pinging on it, but this is what happens in families when you see someone close (fellow citizens) , who means something to the country you cherish, running amuck, you just don’t stay quiet.

 

[Katbel]

Southern Catalpa : seen it in Vancouver BC

 

[oldBCguy]

.. from a local walkabout this morning.

 

[Eric]

Took this with my iPhone and pretty much left it as is with its own in camera color correction. The sky was just spectacular as I was crossing the bridge so I grabbed a snap.

 

[mollyc]

 

[Citysnaps]

At times it seems like I have to remind myself this is my favorite country, I’m so busy pinging on it, but this is what happens in families when you see someone close (fellow citizens) , who means something to the country you cherish, running amuck, you just don’t stay quiet.

It's a complicated and nuanced relationship. Like most things in life, there's no perfection.

 

[Citysnaps]

New York City.

 

[oldBCguy]

.. after their morning shower (via garden sprinkler) .. early walk in local neighbourhood this morning.

 

[mollyc]

 

[Katbel]

Sunrise

 

[Spike]

Oakland.

 

[Yoused]

It's a complicated and nuanced relationship.

Reminds of a couple I knew some years ago who were constantly saying to each other "baby, you piss me off."

 

[oldBCguy]

.. blackberry update -- a photo from my neighbourhood walk yesterday morning -- these were 'the' most advanced blackberries observed - so still quite a way to go, at our location, here in Burnaby, BC, before they'll be ripe. I hope to be able see some ripe ones - not as easy as it used to be - most of the bushes have been cut away due home construction, "weed" control, and such, and any left (on some property borders and the like), the berries are soon picked, and usually well before they have really ripened. Hard to believe, in serason, I used to walk out and come back with quarts of ripe berries at a time a few years ago - and chilled with ice cream ..... yum.

 

[mollyc]

.. blackberry update -- a photo from my neighbourhood walk yesterday morning -- these were 'the' most advanced blackberries observed - so still quite a way to go, at our location, here in Burnaby, BC, before they'll be ripe. I hope to be able see some ripe ones - not as easy as it used to be - most of the bushes have been cut away due home construction, "weed" control, and such, and any left (on some property borders and the like), the berries are soon picked, and usually well before they have really ripened. Hard to believe, in serason, I used to walk out and come back with quarts of ripe berries at a time a few years ago - and chilled with ice cream ..... yum.

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My mother used to pick wild elderberries from along the side and make elderberry jam every year.

 

[Citysnaps]

Stockton Street Tunnel, San Francisco.

 

[mollyc]

 

[Spike]

Sunset, Ayamonte, Spain.

 

[Citysnaps]

Have a great weekend!

 

[Huntn]

My mother used to pick wild elderberries from along the side and make elderberry jam every year.

When I was child we used to go to a local farm to pick strawberries. And my Granparents on their farm had a large Concord grape vine growing on a fence that produced terrific tasting fruit, plucked fresh.

 

[Katbel]