What Is The Weather Today II (No Mercury Jockeying)

[GeneralLea]

I as well like taking pictures of my fair share of trash, but mostly as a contrast to nature's abundances nearby. The Don Valley has tons of it from decades old industrial businesses near me:
Patiens by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
Patiens by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
Patiens by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr


Currently it's 15C and overcast...it felt pretty gross out there earlier.

[Architype]

It's nice in Vancouver today with blue skies.


my photo May 08 2024

[urbandreamer]

Are you a micro manager &/or have OCD and that's why you like trash along waterways?

Anyway, here's a clean stream in Perth County today, along a rail trail. Sunny and blue skies; earlier a bit of rain and threatening clouds that dispersed. Trilliums, forget me nots and apple blossoms in abundance.

[megadude]

It's not about trash like food or typical household trash. But items and objects that have been discarded. Things that kind of have a story. How did this end up here? Car, suitcase, fridge, shoes, pipes, rubble, etc. And it's more about finding it interesting rather than liking it. Shopping carts ending up in snow plow piles is always funny. When I worked at A&P, I sometimes had to go retrieve shopping carts in odd places.

I'd prefer if people didn't litter, but we all were stupid and have at some point. Hopefully it was when we were young and have matured since. And hopefully nothing ridiculously stupid like throwing multiple garbage bags on the side of the road on rural routes. There's a guy on tiktok that would go to various dumping spots. It was usually between Durham Region to maybe as far as Kingston and all points in between when I was watching. He would find full bags of garbage, open them up to find mail and bring the bag to that address and drop it on their doorstep and film the people opening the door. But he would blur their faces.

Thankfully, it's not a landfill or the Ganges out there and it's pretty minor.

There's a tiny island not far off the beach by the cottage that had the remants of a tiny cottage. Like a partial wall, a fridge, stove and a dock. All just rusting and rotting away. Sat like that for years. Went there a couple times. And for any visitors with kayaks, they found that interesting. When that stuff was finally hauled away, there was less interest as it's just another island.

[urbandreamer]

Ah. I enjoy "barn finds" in rural areas, ie old abandoned farm equipment, cars, trucks, tractors, implements whether in barns, fields or woods. Random garbage is icky. In Toronto I sometimes have an urge to power wash the smelly sidewalks and garbage cans and random stinky homeless people ha, although obviously I never do.

I once worked in a recycling plant in Steveston (near the Fraser River) and became fascinated with the stuff people, landlords and offices throw out. Eg family photos, heirlooms, books, vintage never opened Playboy etc.

[Nicko999]

Absolute crapiness today. 11C and rainy/drizzly. May can be such a frustrating month.

It was 16C last night.

The warmspot was Lytton, BC at 26.3C

Warmest low was Toronto (Downtown) and Harrow, ON at 11.5C.

[mcminsen]

Clear, sunny, warm, dry.

Wednesday's high at Vancouver Harbour was 16 C, the low was 8 C.





Downtown Vancouver, May 8 '24, my pics


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[SignalHillHiker]

A couple new to me this morning.

[Tancredi]

I really like your philosophy of life. You demonstrate that you are a person with a great love for history and civilization. You like to reconstruct the stories of the past and give meaning to abandoned objects. You are exactly the model of civilized person that I have always appreciated

Originally Posted by megadude

It's not about trash like food or typical household trash. But items and objects that have been discarded. Things that kind of have a story. How did this end up here? Car, suitcase, fridge, shoes, pipes, rubble, etc. And it's more about finding it interesting rather than liking it. Shopping carts ending up in snow plow piles is always funny. When I worked at A&P, I sometimes had to go retrieve shopping carts in odd places.

I'd prefer if people didn't litter, but we all were stupid and have at some point. Hopefully it was when we were young and have matured since. And hopefully nothing ridiculously stupid like throwing multiple garbage bags on the side of the road on rural routes. There's a guy on tiktok that would go to various dumping spots. It was usually between Durham Region to maybe as far as Kingston and all points in between when I was watching. He would find full bags of garbage, open them up to find mail and bring the bag to that address and drop it on their doorstep and film the people opening the door. But he would blur their faces.

Thankfully, it's not a landfill or the Ganges out there and it's pretty minor.

There's a tiny island not far off the beach by the cottage that had the remants of a tiny cottage. Like a partial wall, a fridge, stove and a dock. All just rusting and rotting away. Sat like that for years. Went there a couple times. And for any visitors with kayaks, they found that interesting. When that stuff was finally hauled away, there was less interest as it's just another island.

[harls]

Originally Posted by megadude

It's not about trash like food or typical household trash. But items and objects that have been discarded. Things that kind of have a story. How did this end up here? Car, suitcase, fridge, shoes, pipes, rubble, etc. And it's more about finding it interesting rather than liking it. Shopping carts ending up in snow plow piles is always funny. When I worked at A&P, I sometimes had to go retrieve shopping carts in odd places.

I'd prefer if people didn't litter, but we all were stupid and have at some point. Hopefully it was when we were young and have matured since. And hopefully nothing ridiculously stupid like throwing multiple garbage bags on the side of the road on rural routes. There's a guy on tiktok that would go to various dumping spots. It was usually between Durham Region to maybe as far as Kingston and all points in between when I was watching. He would find full bags of garbage, open them up to find mail and bring the bag to that address and drop it on their doorstep and film the people opening the door. But he would blur their faces.

Thankfully, it's not a landfill or the Ganges out there and it's pretty minor.

There's a tiny island not far off the beach by the cottage that had the remants of a tiny cottage. Like a partial wall, a fridge, stove and a dock. All just rusting and rotting away. Sat like that for years. Went there a couple times. And for any visitors with kayaks, they found that interesting. When that stuff was finally hauled away, there was less interest as it's just another island.

Your pics of shoes and the suitcases intrigued me. How did they get there? What was the story? I love shit like this.

Like my photo of the chips, margarine and videotape. What happened?

[megadude]

Originally Posted by harls

Your pics of shoes and the suitcases intrigued me. How did they get there? What was the story? I love shit like this.

Like my photo of the chips, margarine and videotape. What happened?

We all know you took the video tapes home with you, popped them in your VCR wondering if there was some "homemade" footage on there. I told this story on the forum years ago, but at the Canadian GP some guy asked me if I knew what was wrong with his camcorder because he saw me using one. It would say it was recording but then when you played back, it was just blank. I rewinded more than I should have and it was him whacking it while sitting on a chair and someone else was circling around and filming him.

I actually saw a rusted out hard drive as well two days ago and was wondering what could be on there.

[harls]

Eww I never touched the tapes, man.

[DesignerGuy]

Interesting that no Canadian city has reached 30 degrees yet this year. Last year Ottawa had its first 30 degree day on April 13th which was the earliest on record for our city. Also May so far has been seasonal and rainy. Looking forward to that multi-day stretch of sunshine in the forecast for next week!

[harls]

Originally Posted by DesignerGuy

Interesting that no Canadian city has reached 30 degrees yet this year. Last year Ottawa had its first 30 degree day on April 13th which was the earliest on record for our city. Also May so far has been seasonal and rainy. Looking forward to that multi-day stretch of sunshine in the forecast for next week!

It'll probably be Osoyoos in the next few days.

[DesignerGuy]

Lucky Osoyoos.

Long range Accuweather models are indicating a very hot summer for The Great Lakes, Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. Looking forward to The Weather Network's summer forecast to see if it matches the US model.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by Tancredi

I really like your philosophy of life. You demonstrate that you are a person with a great love for history and civilization. You like to reconstruct the stories of the past and give meaning to abandoned objects. You are exactly the model of civilized person that I have always appreciated

Appreciate that!

You're proably the kind of guy I could go on a mini hike with. I don't know anyone else that will go on these walks with me. There's one neighbour that walks trails all the time, but she only does proper, groomed trails. She won't go off trail or into the woods proper. And everyone else I know nearby is not adventurous. And I'm hardly an adventurer.

I can't even get anyone to go fishing with me. Though, I am pickier nowadays with who I hang out or associate with. So that doesn't help.

[MonctonRad]

5C and light rain in Moncton at 10 AM, only getting as warm as 8C this afternoon with persistent showers.

It rained steadily all night.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

A couple new to me this morning.

Everything but that crossbill I have seen in my yard. That’s very pretty. The flicker only saw once five years ago. And I saw them three times at the cottage. All of those in the same year. Not before and not since. Of course, now that I’ve said this, I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing one this year.

Sparrows are abundant and are constantly feeding on the suet I put out. So not surprising that I’ve twice seen a hawk swoop down and take one outside my bay window while I was watching tv.

[le calmar]

Originally Posted by megadude

Appreciate that!

You're proably the kind of guy I could go on a mini hike with. I don't know anyone else that will go on these walks with me. There's one neighbour that walks trails all the time, but she only does proper, groomed trails. She won't go off trail or into the woods proper. And everyone else I know nearby is not adventurous. And I'm hardly an adventurer.

Sounds like you, harls and Tancredi embrace a similar philosophy of life. I wonder what kind of pictures we could expect if the three of you went for a mini hike in Burlington or in some picturesque Sicilian town.

[Airboy]

We are up to 27 tomorrow. low 20s the rest of the weekend.

We are getting green now.