Back and Forth Across the Pond

I've had a folder of photos on my desktop for awhile. I finally took a look at it and discovered a treasure trove of photos from our various adventures. It will take me awhile to process all of them, but here's a teaser of a few miscellaneous shots. These first two were taken in February. One shows snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the other the snow-covered front garden of our home. These next two photos were taken in spring after I bought a new super telephoto lens for my camera. I shot them from our apartment window.  I think this is a buddleia. The entire tree was festooned in these lovely white flowers. It was a very pretty sight in our garden for a couple of weeks in early spring. This female house sparrow was sitting on the feeder in the garden right behind ours. Our bungalow in the Lochardil neighborhood featured a nice array of birds. But here, all we get are wood pigeons, crows, blackbirds, the occasional robin, and dozens of house spa...

I got Steve a drone for Christmas. Rather, I gave Steve the money to buy a drone and then he added his own money to get an even better drone. Where we don't currently own a car, we've not gone out and done much with it. We do plan to change that. But here are a couple of videos I made using footage from some of Steve's training flights. This first one is taken in front of our home in late January 2018. Steve was just getting used to the controls, so the main features of the clip are our building (a former Victorian orphanage) and Inverness. You can view it here . The second video was done a few months later in May. Steve had a new  DJI Goggles controller and he wanted to give it a test run. We happened to have a rental car, so we popped over to Loch Ness after dinner one day. Again, the goal of the outing was for Steve to test equipment, but you get a good idea of the vastness and beauty of Loch Ness. You can view it here .