November Roses

Penticton’s rose garden was still blooming just before we left for our holiday.

Not long after I took these photos, the gardeners did an autumn trim on all the other flowers and then followed up with the roses.

It’s lovely to have such gorgeous flowers blooming so late in the season, but they eventually had to be bedded down for their winter rest.

They will soon be back.

Happy Saturday.

Day and Night

The sky here in the Caribbean is bright blue and contrasts intensely with the lush green of the trees.

Night descends quickly and firmly; twilight doesn’t last long.

Sometimes it catches a fritillary butterfly unawares, seized in the efficient arrival of a confusing artificial light.

I carefully moved this sleepy little one to a nearby tree that was in the shadows.

Happy Wednesday.

Abend auf dem Hochwald

Abends stehen wir oben auf der Terrasse der Hochwaldbaude, verkürzen die Zeit bis zum Essen mit dem Genießen des aufreißenden Nebels, wir sind nun …

Abend auf dem Hochwald

This is a beautiful set of photos from Radelnder uHu taken in the border area of Germany and Czech Republic. Lutz has many dramatic landscape photos on his blog.

Cloudscapes

I enjoyed watching these cloud layers unfold themselves.

Capricious and swirling, they were never the same from one moment to the next, a sometimes very human characteristic.

Given the frequency with which we describe weather as moody, angry or brilliant, we should perhaps change how our weather forecasts are expressed: “wear your coat, it’s angry today” or “bring along the sunscreen; it’s brilliant today.”

Might be a problem for Environment Canada, though.

Happy Sunday.

Sometimes, life is like that.