Running some backups tonight I ran across this photo.
Edmonds City Fair in #Burnaby in 2018. I was hired as the event photographer, and my friend Lori Geosits saw me and got this shot of moi loaded with gear.
A couple of Nikon DSLRs with short and long zoom lenses, and a belt pack full of flash units and extra batteries.
It will be great to have such events again some day. Stay safe, folks. . .
Photo credit Lori Geosits. Thanks!
Took a stroll to Byrne Creek in south #Burnaby this afternoon. Spotted a few birds and some cool patterns.
Upside-down berry eating American Robin
Anna’s Hummingbird
Crow
Breathing new life into an old notebook.
I got this Dell G3 with an IPS full HD screen nearly two years ago, and despite its classification as a “gaming” machine with a dedicated video card with 4GB of VRAM, it always seemed sluggish.
I upgraded the stock 8GB of RAM to 16GB about a year ago, but that made little difference in boot time and app load time.
As I wrote the other day, the 1TB HD had been getting increasingly flaky, so I bought a 1TB SSD. Today I cloned the HD to the SSD, then opened up the machine and swapped the SSD for the HD.
Yowza. It seems to be booting up and loading programs in about half the time now.
Happy boy, eh?
Despite the wet, gloomy weather, I walked the lower portion of Byrne Creek in Burnaby, mostly because I was curious to see how high the river and creek were with the highest tide of the month and the rain.
This is a few meters upstream of the flap gates at the mouth of the creek
Red-tailed Hawk
A couple of Gadwalls in the pond just west of the creek outfall
Spotted Towhee
Golden-crowned Sparrow
I take after my late Mom. She liked to take recipes and “health them up.”
Yum, these turned out really well. Used the basic recipe off a Rogers Wheat Bran package for bran muffins, cut the sugar in half, added 1/3 cup oatmeal, about 1/2 cup of mashed pumpkin (yes, dating back to Halloween!), about 1/2 cup of blueberries, a dash of roasted pumpkin seeds, and some sesame seeds.
UPDATE (Dec. 21): Damn those were good :-). All gone four days later. Still some mashed pumpkin from Halloween in the fridge, so another batch on the way. . .
On my way home from a photo shoot at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR I stopped at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby, BC.
Great Blue Heron
Snoozing Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagles
Gadwall
Ring-necked Ducks
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Male Wood Duck
Female Wood Duck
It was blustery and chilly at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR, so I didn’t tarry, but I did get some shots of Snow Geese and a hawk.
I’ve written before about burgeoning concerns with my Dell G3 laptop.
I’ve had to run utilities a couple of times now to keep the 1TB HD functioning, and it still seems to be getting slower and slower.
I’ve got a Terabyte Drive Image clone running to an external USB 3 HD as I write this, just in case the drive dies completely.
So I figure it’s time to replace the HD. I was happy to see that SSD (solid state) drives have come down a lot in price, so I ordered an internal 2.5″ 1TB Sata 3 SSD for $C104 from Canada Computers to replace the flaky HD . They have a handy location just a few minutes drive away.
I’m hoping the SSD will also result in significantly faster boot times and overall responsiveness. . . The stock HD in this laptop spins at 5400rpm, about 2/3 of the 7200rpm HDs in my tower, so the laptop has always felt sluggish in comparison.
Will report back after the new SSD arrives, and I get it cloned and installed in the laptop. . .
When you go off to refresh your tea, and you return to find that the office assistant has staged a coup d’état and assumed a senior management position. . .
I love raptors ‘n herons. This hawk was way up a tree at the southwest end of the meadow near the Historic Stewart Farm in south Surrey, BC.
