Fall

The days are getting shorter, the mornings crisper, and the leaves redder. It's definitely fall in Vancouver, and while I'm sure it's not, it feels way earlier than it should.

I've started wearing tshirts or even long-sleeved shirts on my runs, and I almost want to wear a toque on my way to work (except that I feel dorky, since it's still September!). Maybe tomorrow..

I'm not really ready for it to be fall.. I don't enjoy getting up before the sun, or going to bed three hours after the sun has set again.

To look on the bright side, fall is a great time to take photos. We're having Thanksgiving dinner with friends this weekend, with family the weekend after that, and then I get to fly away to visit my best friend and her sister, who is basically my almost-sister. And then, the month will be half over. Crazy!

Leaves on the sidwalk

W 19th Ave on a run.

Tree on my walk from work

I really like having a camera that's always with me and takes good enough photos.

Happy (basically) October!

Spring is here :)

Today at work with H at Totem, we saw tons of robins, dark-eyed juncos, European starlings, a few bald eagles, and a beautiful hawk that just chilled out for about 15 minutes. I wish I had my camera, and was better at identifying it! I think it was either a Cooper's, or a Sharp-Shinned.. but I'm really not sure. Hopefully it's back later next week :)

It makes me happy to have my field guides out again! Identified creeping Charlie as the mint that covers a lot of the ground underneath the alders..

Surprise!

On Friday, R gave me the 4th flower that he's ever given me in our 5-year plus relationship. He knows me very well: I prefer to get flowers at random occasions (such as finishing my insect collection) rather than for Valentine's day, or our anniversary. I'm just not that kinda girl. (What kind of girl am I? I have no idea.) He also surprised me with a lovely steak dinner at home, with candles!, Jesse Cook, and no TV. That's pretty impressive for us. We're usually the sit down at the coffee table and watch something. Other than movies, our dinner TV is pretty much the only TV that we watch.

Before dinner, I went for a walk with M&A on the beach, and I took this photo. It reminds me of something you'd see from in a plane..

Lines in the sand at Jericho Beach

 Even though it snowed yesterday, my Oxalis is quite happily blooming away.

Oxalis triangularis.