Spring, Easter and Selfie

This week I have been noticing that the morning sun was reaching the corner of my monitor. It has doing so for a few days, but yesterday I picked up the iphone and took a photo. In the photo, the light is just reaching the top right corner. Of course, this will change quickly now as at our latitude, we are getting about 3 minutes more sunlight per day.

You likely recall me saying that to me, this lighting of the monitor is the beginning of spring. Likewise, its leaving marks the end of autumn.

Just a little while later, when I hopped onto FB, a memory awaited me.

I had done the same thing on the same date, last year. The patch of light was a bit bigger last year, probably because the monitor was in a slightly different orientation because the sun would almost have be in the same spot, although it can vary by a day or so.

Of course, I hadn't remembered having taken that photo in 2020, for I forget about most things that I post almost immediately after posting. Someone may LIKE a FB post, and I will have to go back to recall what it was.

The weather has been grand for three days: sunny with the gale force winds abating to just plain winds. This was quite wonderful on Easter Sunday, for we were able to have a short visit with Sha and the kids on the back deck.

Sue had moved closer to JJ for the photo but moved back right after

We don't use our backyard much because we back onto a busy road. There is a fair bit of space between us and the road, but it is still noisy. More importantly however, the yard bakes in the afternoon summer sun. In point of fact, we were almost too hot on that April weekend.

Despite the heat, Lacey still wanted out.

We keep the poor thing inside, away from ticks and fleas and possible gaps in the fence. We wouldn't want to take the chance of a poor, declawed puss being out on her own.

Finally for now, I came across some information about using the portrait mode on an iphone. I had thought that this application would require an iphone12, but it works well on my 10.

This ↑ was a selfie in portrait mode, and that is what came directly from the phone without further editing. I did do one thing: cropped it to 8x10 format, which is a good ratio for portraits.

It is amazing what the phone can do. There's quite a lot of computing power in a phone, and Apple has done a good job in exploiting the capabilities.

If you need help with this, I am sure that you can find a quick tutorial if you are using a later edition of the iphone.