Walking like an Eagle

Sneaky Sue snapped a picture of me on our daily walk.

Winds were gale force again, so we headed to the somewhat protected trail once more. 

I did stick my polarizer filter on my lens, hoping that if we saw the turtle again I'd get a better photo. It turns out that I didn't get a better photo. The turtle that I displayed yesterday was elsewhere; the other one that I didn't post then was still lurking about but, once again, mostly underwater. I snapped a shot hopefully, but the the light was not as good as on the previous day, regardless of polarizers and big cameras.

There were bits of red vegetation floating nearby (you can see some by the turtle, above): discarded seed pods or some such. I thought they might do for a photo, but they didn't, so on the computer I applied a radial filter as an experiment.

Since that experiment amounted to nothing, let us just move on.

At one spot, just before we turn off the trail into the park, a forsythia (I think it is) bush had burst forth on the edge of an abutting backyard. What a treat to see such bright, vibrant colour when other colour is just barely beginning!

Finally. we sat on the bench that overlooks the river and took selfies for Sue’s meme, one take with the park in the background and one with us turned about and showing the river in the background. I think I like the river image better. The angle and composition are a little different than the more typical head-on-centred selfies.

 with the park behind

 turned around with the river now in the background

As you can see, I was wearing my warm jacket, but I could have made do with a lighter one because the temperature rose into the 20s/70s. Of course, it dropped to freezing overnight in this ever-changing spring weather that also featured some very heavy winds and downpours.