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This time I remembered our Southern Hemisphere friends when making the title of the thread!
Getting it started with a few quick shots from the neighbourhood during the afternoon walk with the pooch. Nothing special but there was some directional lighting from the late afternoon sun so it was quite nice.
My blue passionflower (passiflora caerulea) vine still isn't showing any freeze damage, not even to the leaves, despite temperatures of around -9C to -7C. Probably a good chance it would be evergreen in coastal BC.
This time I remembered our Southern Hemisphere friends when making the title of the thread!
Getting it started with a few quick shots from the neighbourhood during the afternoon walk with the pooch. Nothing special but there was some directional lighting from the late afternoon sun so it was quite nice.
Best Canada photos I've ever seen anywhere on this website. Looks like the very beginning of May here in more evergreen dominated areas, and the colors are just fabulously verdant.
Best Canada photos I've ever seen anywhere on this website. Looks like the very beginning of May here in more evergreen dominated areas, and the colors are just fabulously verdant.
One thing about BC is that I don't think the grass even goes dormant there. Last winter it actually took a while, it was still very green in early December, but was starting to look mostly dormant by early January (except a few sheltered moist pockets) even despite a mild December. This year, it's looking like it'll go dormant earlier. And then in the spring, this year it mostly came out of dormancy in early-mid April.
Beyond that, those clouds just don't look very December-like.
One thing about BC is that I don't think the grass even goes dormant there. Last winter it actually took a while, it was still very green in early December, but was starting to look mostly dormant by early January (except a few sheltered moist pockets) even despite a mild December. This year, it's looking like it'll go dormant earlier. And then in the spring, this year it mostly came out of dormancy in early-mid April.
Beyond that, those clouds just don't look very December-like.
In fact, grass in Victoria goes dead brown dormant in the summer then comes back to life when the autumn rains return and stays green through the winter. This year however the "autumn green up" has been rather muted because of the very dry autumn that transitioned almost overnight into a cold November.
Those kind of stratocumulus or low cumulus are quite common here in winter after passage of a cold front. Cold air aloft.
In fact, grass in Victoria goes dead brown dormant in the summer then comes back to life when the autumn rains return and stays green through the winter. This year however the "autumn green up" has been rather muted because of the very dry autumn that transitioned almost overnight into a cold November.
Those kind of stratocumulus or low cumulus are quite common here in winter after passage of a cold front. Cold air aloft.
Victoria is pretty lucky to have wintertime green grass with it's lack of snowpack, really helps the aesthetics I think.
In fact, grass in Victoria goes dead brown dormant in the summer then comes back to life when the autumn rains return and stays green through the winter. This year however the "autumn green up" has been rather muted because of the very dry autumn that transitioned almost overnight into a cold November.
Those kind of stratocumulus or low cumulus are quite common here in winter after passage of a cold front. Cold air aloft.
It went pretty brown here this summer, but got greener in the fall. Not so much because of more rain as due to reduced evapotranspiration from the cooler temperatures. But it's fairly common for the grass to remain green in the summer, that's how it was last year.
Rain from 2 days ago kept ground moist and it all froze this morning. Roofs and lawns are all white except under canopy of trees
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. Looks like the very beginning of May here in more evergreen dominated areas, and the colors are just fabulously verdant.
