Partial Solar Eclipse over Pleasantville …

Today’s Solar Eclipse started at 3.27pm, peaked at 4.38pm and ended at 5.44pm.

With stacked ND Filters (ND64 and ND1000) attached to my Zoom Lens, the camera set at a Shutter Speed of 1/125 and a F-Stop of F29, I was out in perfect cloudless conditions to see what I could capture ~ the are results below showing before, during and just after the peak.

On what was a very warm day, during the 95% eclipse I was amazed at how quickly the temperature dropped, it got really chilly. The birds in the surrounding trees seemed to have got very confused about it, during the peak they were chirping out their evening calls ~ all very interesting.

Two days ago ….

………………. I was enjoying a sun drenched nap on a comfortable rock at Rissers Beach. Today, I am not able to go out for my usual wander around the local area, the reason ~ it is snowing rather heavily …

As hinted in a blog from March 2022 (click on the image below), I tend to get a little impatient at this time of the year waiting for spring to arrive. My definition of spring is, buds on trees, green grass and daffodils growing wildly everywhere, but that has never been my experience here in Canada. 

Fortunately, today’s (unwelcome) April snowfall does not require a Snow Blower or even a Snow Shovel. According to The Weather Network, it will all be gone tomorrow with a couple of days of April showers, which is then followed on Monday with bright warm sunshine ~ which could mean a trip back to that comfortable rock for another lovely nap …

See my last blog “An afternoon nap on a rock …” by clicking on the image …

An afternoon nap on a rock …

With today’s weather being absolutely perfect in every way, I thought it would be nice to go for a nap on one of my favourite rocks. The chosen rock was at Rissers, and it is certainly one of the most comfortable of all that I have found locally at both Rissers and Crescent Beaches.

With the rhythmic pace of the waves coming in and crashing off some adjacent rocks, it was not too long before I was gone ~ I spent far too many years sitting at a wall to earn days like this .....

Below are pics of the rock, unfortunately they don’t fully show the natural (comfortable) curvature that seems to fit me rather perfectly. Also below are other photos from this afternoons outing that I took after waking up …