We got a brief snow storm today and I happened to be visiting the house to see it.
Category: PHOTOGRAPHY (Page 1 of 2)
On Saturday we hiked the Fairhaven Trail with friends. Here are two pictures from that hike. The first one is another picture of our house, under construction, from across the river.
The second picture is Fairhaven Bay in the later afternoon.
The next morning we had a quick visit to the house to decide on the locations for exterior outlets. During that visit I was able to catch this Redtail Hawk in the tree in our backyard. Sorry for the quality, all I had was my cellphone.
Today we went for a hike along the Fairhaven Trail in Concord, which is on the other side of the river from our new house. There is a place where the trail has a path down to the water, where you land a boat. Here are two pictures of our new house from that small beach.
No house visit this past weekend because we went camping at Wellfleet Hollow Campground on Cape Cod. The weekend consisted of hiking, reading and playing games. Here are a few pictures from our hikes.
The next post will be back to our regularly scheduled house construction update.
This weekend we went camping at Savoy Mountain State Forest with a group. The weather was excellent and a good time was had by all. Here is one of the pictures I took of Bog Pond from one of our hikes.
Here is a view of the foundation from the river. Keep in mind that the water is very high, and would not normally be as close to the foundation.
We had an overnight snow storm (although calling it a “storm” may be an exaggeration) and the snow is still clinging to the trees behind our (current) house. Here is a picture of the snow covered branches with the sunrise behind.
This is a view from our (eventual) backyard taken on November 17th. The water level is quite low.
This is approximately the same view one week later. There were a few inches of rain the day before and you can see the difference in the water level in our little inlet.
We have been scouting where we will trample our path down to the river to put in our boats. We are allowed by law to have an unimproved path on our property through the wetlands to the river. Since we can not really remove or cut any non-invasive vegetation, this means that we will trample our way to the river, in hopes that eventually we have a dirt path.
The path will go to the right of that tree you see, but then angle towards the inlet and follow the edge of the inlet towards the river proper. If the water level is high, we will put boats in on the side of the inlet. If the water level is low, we will go further to the river. At least that is the plan.
This picture is the Sudbury River in Concord, just downstream of our new property (which is around the bend in the distance).
I have also been taking my camera around town (Arlington, Lexington and Cambridge) to capture more fall pictures. You can see some selected images in my Nature Around Town gallery.
Here are some other pictures, which may encourage you to check out the gallery.
And here is one more, although not of fall colors. This snapping turtle was on the observation platform in the Alewife Brook Reservation area. He is not going to fit in the gap under the railing so he has a long walk back to get to the water. (I decided not to help him.)
As we get into fall, the sun is rising later and later and the leaves have started to turn. This gives me more chances to take some interesting photographs on my morning walk before boarding the shuttle bus to work.
This morning I caught the sunrise colors in the clouds which were then reflected in Spy Pond (Arlington, MA). I also got a good picture of a swan on Alewife Brook (Cambridge, MA) in the early morning light.
