Whatever Weds.-This & That

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What a week it’s been! It all started on October 10th, 2024.

My neighbor and I rose early to head up to Emerald Bay for sunrise.

The color was earlier than we hoped so, we made a quick stop at Pope Beach to shoot the color and daybreak.

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Then we made our way up to a lookout over Emerald Bay to photograph the lake.

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Then we took our time making stops along the way home to photograph some Autumn Color.

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We saw a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk hunting for breakfast. She caught a Vole but, I won’t gross you out with those images.

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Later that evening I saw the Northern Lights for the first time ever. That post is here. It was glorious.

Friday morning I birded with my usual birding group and we had a great morning seeing 40 species of birds. Along with the birds I noticed some spooky Zombie Pirates lurking by the pond. Here’s one.

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Saturday morning I was up early and met up with two girl friends to do my first Big Day. It’s a 24 hour global birding marathon put on by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We didn’t sign up as team or register our day but we, birded from 8AM until after 4PM. I saw 45 species. It was pretty fun day. We posted our sightings on ebird.org so they’ll have our record for their counts and information. Unfortunately, the next afternoon I got sick, and shortly afterwards I was hearing from my companions from the day before that they where also sick. We think the deli we stopped at to have lunch is where we picked up food poisoning. I brought home half my sandwich which I shared with He-Man and yep, he got it too. UGH.

Monday still weak, and very tired I was determined to locate and see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) but, I wasn’t in shape to drive anywhere so I just stepped out on my back patio and photographed it there. It’s so cool and it has a great long tail!

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What a week! What a month it’s been so far! The Aurora, and the Comet really made my month. Everything else has been icing on the cake.

My tummy is still sketchy, but I’m on the mend and so are He-Man and my friends. I plan to be out photographing Halloween things, birding, and maybe the Comet with a better composition soon. I hope your week is going well. Oh, and watch out for the Zombies and Ghoulies! 👻

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more to come…

57 thoughts on “Whatever Weds.-This & That”

  9. Dear Deborah
    We could see the comet clearly from our coast, and many people photographed it. It may be one of the most photographed comets by non-astronomers. Great picture you took.
    Wishing you improving health.
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  10. A fabulous past few weeks for you for sure, except that stomach illness, oh my! Glad to hear you and hubby are on the mend. Beautiful captures, love the comet shot! What a trooper you are, I’m glad you did get to see/photograph it even while feeling so bad. Wishes each day you’re better and better and back behind your camera, Deborah!

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  11. Despite your aside that your comet photo was poorly composed, it’s one of the loveliest I’ve seen. I just don’t have the patience or probably the equipment for sky photography, but I do enjoy others’ photos. Besides, with people like you to capture the sights, there’s no need for me to do it poorly!

    What really caught my attention here was the autumn color. That path into the golden woods is so appealing; I’d love to walk that one!

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  12. What a wonderful photo week. Thanks for bringing us along. The bad food was not good at all though. I’m so sorry.

    We finally have a day with the high in the upper 70s. (It’s continued to be around 90 this late in the year — way above normal.) I’m hoping for at least a few fall colors soon. Get well soon. Hugs.

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  13. Very beautiful photos! I heard that a comet is visible, not sure if it can be seen over Las Vegas. I’m glad that you are feeling better after food poisoning, that must have been terrible, Deborah! Thank you for subscribing to my photoblog!

    My sister has been a birder for decades, her love for birds has rubbed off on me, I love feeding the different Hummingbirds that visit my backyard daily to feed on the two feeders. I have that Cornell bird app on my phone. ❤️

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    1. Thank you, John!
      I’m seeing photos from the outskirts of Vegas of the Comet so you should be able to see it if your sky is clear. The moon is brighter as it approaches the Supermoon tomorrow night so it may be harder to see but, start looking West 40-45 minutes after sunset to right of Venus about 6 of my fists and up a bit. If you have a night sky app that will help you find it. Sky live II is a good one. Good luck!!

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      1. Thanks for the app info! I will have a look tonight, the sky over the city is usually clear at night but I haven’t noticed the comet. I pulled up the website for your town, it looks very beautiful and even relaxing compared to the speed of life here. Tooooo fast!

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  15. Absolutely wonderful pictures, Deborah. You were lucky to see the comet so clearly. Here, there was some haze in the air. So it didn’t come up so brightly. In spite of that Mary could see it and even take pictures with her smartphone. I couldn’t see it at all, not even with binoculars. Maybe I’ll have another chance tonight.

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    1. Thank you so much, Pit! I hope you get to see it tonight. I think I had my best shot. It’s raining and cloudy the next two days here and we’re dropping down into the 20’s tomorrow night. 🥶I’m hoping you see it!

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  17. I love the daybreak pictures and the comet, Deborah. It is really the first image I’ve seen from the comet! Wonderful. Being ill from food poisening is nasty! One almost is unable to do anything but feel miserable. Luckely it doesn’t last to long mostly, but it never comes in handy. Glad you are feeling better by now. Halloween isn’t a big thing over in the Netherlands (although I was suprised by a singing skeleton in a store the other day), but for security reasons I will try to avoid all zombies. 🙂

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  18. Thanks so much for sharing your photos. I love the colors and the photo of the lake. The hawk is magnificent, as is the comet (and your earlier post about the aurora). I am sad to hear that you all got sick. That’s an awful feeling. I’m glad you’re feeling better. I hope you’re back to normal soon.

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    1. There were some pretty spectacular sights last week that I wanted to share. It’s not every week one sees the Northern Lights, and a Comet along with the other things I like to photograph within 4 days. 😊

      We talked about reporting it, but really weren’t sure who to report it too so, we haven’t.

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  24. So sorry for the food poisoning. I had that once and know it is awful. Your photos are beautiful, Deborah. I have shot Emerald Bay so many times, but yours takes the prize. I really enjoyed the comet. We have too many trees so I couldn’t see it. Well now I have. Thanks.

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