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Ok, no sunshine, but went outside anyway. It helped.
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Here's the #Spectra #Peertube link to the same video. Because it is a longer video (10mins) and so a larger file, the YT video is 720p and the Spectra one 480 to reduce the size.
https://spectra.video/w/r7ZDYxoTrDY5tnD2u7CnRn
#cows #CountryLiving #SlowWalks #GoOutsideForMe #nature

Video from slow walks on the farm. Neighbours have cattle there over the summer. I think the cows / calves find it weird to see me on foot, usually they take off if I get close (sometimes calves approach but mothers intervene). These ones were more curious, so I spent a little time watching+ talking to them- they never did answer!
YouTube link (720) Spectra (480) to follow
https://youtu.be/a7j_mFwvwG4
#cows #animals #SlowWalk #CountryLiving #Alberta #GetOutside #GoOutsideForMe

In a lumpy pasture of dry grass, partly bent and trampled this way and that with occasional dry thistles and tall grass stems sticking up. In the distance there are mixed woods of green-gold poplars and dark spruce, nearer in centre left, farther away to each side, tapering away to the right. The sky shows a hint of blue through medium thick white-grey clouds.
In the foreground left are two half grown calves, one black facing forward nose raisded slightly trying to smell me on the breeze. Farther back is a red one, facing toward centre, but looking toward me. In centre is a black cow, facing right, head down grazing. Toward the right and farther back is a pale dull gold cow, also facing mostly right, grazing.

This woodpecker has been visiting the apple-crabs (between apples and crab-apples in size and flavour-these are sweet and delicious). It flies in with a great cackling noise and settles on the tree to peck at apples for a while before flying off to season its meal with its regular fare-insects.
Short video on YouTube #Spectra to follow
#birds #nature #Alberta #Canada #wildlife #CountryLiving #GoOutsideForMe #autumn
https://youtube.com/shorts/7qQxKyMC80o?feature=share

same alt for all 3 images: A large woodpecker, roughly the size of a large crow and -especially seen perched, from behind, mostly as black: it has white bands on face and neck and a little on the wings- at rest seen only as a fine line, plus a bright red crest on its head, and since this is a male, a red patch on its cheek. It is perched on a dangline branch with green leaves and small golden-orangey apples. We see it from the side, actually pecking into the apples in one view, looking up toward the left in another, and the back of the head and neck in another as it really digs in. Background is blurred overexposed foliage and the unclear wall of a building.

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Kleine weiße Spinne

small white spider

#photo
#photography
#natur
#naturephotography
#Tiere
#animals
#wildlife
#spinne
#lahntal
#gooutsideforme

Kleine weiße Spinne von hinten

small white spider from the back

#GoOutsideForMe Hot July day on the screen porch. One of the leaves on the vine is shaped like a cat!

Monarch feeding on Butterfly Weed in my garden.

I'll need to check to see if there are any eggs or larva. Their caterpillars feed on the leaves.

@vlrny
#GoOutsideForMe

#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #Lepidoptera #Nature #Butterfly #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #HabitatGardening

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Handheld photo of the #moon taken in the yard one morning last week. Not NASA level, but still surprises me what cameras can do these days. This is my basic DSLR, more than 10 years old, lens only 18-300 (for non-photographers, that is not a long lens!) no tripod, cropped, sharpened a bit and background cleaned up in editing.
#sky #space #dawn #photography #GoOutsideForMe

A picture of the moon, lit from the left by the morning (here on my part of earth) sun, we see half or a little more, the right side is in its own shadow. The sky appears medium dark blue, it was probably lighter. The image is not perfectly crisp, but we can see the general shape of the mares on the moon, and even some of the bright spots and craters, especially at the bottom.

@vlrny

Sometimes other noise can be a distraction. Like...

Dancing Flamingoes at the Nashville Zoo.

#GoOutsideForMe #Flamingos

The #Spectra #PeerTube video, smaller file
#nature #Alberta #Canada #florespondence #Wildflowers #GoOutsideForMe
https://spectra.video/w/1H4ixSPAiy6saQk2aDzvR4

Fantastic light yesterday as a cold/storm front approached. The trees with fresh bright green leaves, were still catching sun against a nearly black sky, making it look as though they were pasted onto the scene. #nature #weather #spring #Alberta #Canada #GetOutside #GoOutsideForMe #SolaceInNature #BorealForest #CountryLiving

Zoomed view, looking across a grassy area, kept more or less low by cattle in summer (not in there yet) with many low poplar suckers in the foreground, just leafing out. This spot is shaded by poplar trees to the left, which we see only part of. These trees are bright green with new leaves, much of what we see in their own shade, though light bits stick out illuminated by the sun off to the left. To the right we see the lower part of a large dark spruce tree, just a hint of sun on the left part of its branches. Considerably farther back some low willows, not fully leafed out with bright green leaves, rise from knee high dried grass, and farther still mixed woods with brightly newly leafed poplars dominating. Lit by the sun, they stand out dramatically against the dark blue grey sky behind.

Across a narrow open area of dry grass, a youngish mixed wooded wetland area of lowish willows, and young to mid-size poplar and birch and a few young spruce rise in a dense tangle of growth. The trees and bushes have young or not even fully emerged leaves, fresh bright green, lit by sunlight. A few poplar branches with small leaves dangle in from upper right and to the left we see part of a shadowed dark spruce. Farther back we see a bit of a more mature mixed wood of poplar and spruce. The sky behind is filled with active cloud, dark and heavy to lower left, white above fading to wisps upper centre and right with bits of blue sky showing.

@plants the video link for #Spectra #Peertube
#GoOutsideForMe #GetOutside #Alberta #Canada #nature #BorealForest #florespondence
https://spectra.video/w/sfNz7aGxjRpXSfCc6mn67z

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