Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Stopped by the hops tower today and saw some of the first hops flowers showing up!
I don’t think they’ve been there for very long, but I’m glad some showed up. After all the growing the vines have been doing, I was starting to wonder if any were going to show up. Did a bit of research a couple weeks ago and learned that there are male and female vines, and only the female vines produce the hops flowers/cones.
I’ll watch these grow and see what they turn into.
Spotted this neat looking Luna moth on the door last night. Haven’t seen too many of them around here before.
Today is my last full day in Edmonton, and it’s been a great trip, but it seems like it just flew by. Took the Basic and Advanced Canadian Amateur Radio certification tests yesterday and passed both of them. Met up with a couple of friends from my grad school days and had a good lunch with them.
Spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the U of A campus looking at all the changes. So many new buildings popping up among the old familiar ones that I know. It’s a very different place from when I was a student there.
A couple more errands today, and it will be time to wrap things up and get ready to head back to Charleston. Flight leaves at 8AM tomorrow, and I’ll be back in Charleston late afternoon.
Sad to be leaving, but it will be good to get back to Charleston.
Got a few photos back from the photographer from Saturday’s photo session near the Muttart Conservatory. Apparently the Muttart doesn’t allow professional photography shoots unless they’re booked in advanced, so we ended up heading out onto some of the nearby walking trails to take photos. I think it worked out better. The weather was great and the scenery on the trails was very nice with the leaves starting to turn colour.
This is the first time we’ve all been together in the same place at the same time in about 9 years.
It was a good day, and it was good being back together again even though it was only for the day.
Some nice bright yellows showing up on the trees this week.
