June 2021
Autumn in Orange 2025
366 days / 1775 days
I started uploading photos taken in 2020 to Flickr on February 27, 2020, including these:
Later in 2020 it became A Thing to count every day as part of March 2020 (ie, today is the 1773rd of March, 2020), In that spirit, today is the 1775th, and also the last, day of 2020 in terms of my photo processing.
Fittingly, today’s final upload features these “2020 SUCKS” cupcakes my kids decorated on December 31:
2020 retrospective
Fires
More (and, December 2019)
Rain
By the time I was uploading my mediocre videos of heavy rain from January and February of 2020 (this one was uploaded in January 2024), it was becoming a little hard to remember why I was so excited about it.
March/April COVID-19 lockdown
Autumn, Japanese maple edition
Autumn, there are in fact other varieties of tree edition
Autumn, Auburn Botanic Gardens edition
Autumn, morning walk after rain edition
Winter rains
Blue Mountains getaway
Bay Run at night
Spring rains
Boxing Day storm
Raindrops
Morning walk in autumn
Auburn Botanic Gardens
May 2020
This album comes via a quick detour to update Wikipedia so that I understood how school reopenings worked in New South Wales in 2020, specifically:
From 11 May [2020], students returned to school one day a week with a plan for a phased return over several weeks. From 25 May, the phased return was replaced with full-time schooling.
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales (2020)
I had decided in advance that when school went back — it was remote for seven weeks, and two weeks of Easter holidays — that my spouse and I would then immediately take a week off work. Thus, the week of 25 May, we went somewhere each day in Sydney to explore, of which the most photogenic was Auburn Botanic Gardens in late autumn colours.
Autumn near Orange
Japanese maple
May 2020
Prime example of why I can’t declare photo bankruptcy: autumn in my mother’s garden in May of 2020.
By May, there was very little COVID in most of Australia, which had closed its borders to non-residents in late March and would not re-open them for tourists until February 2022. The weekend of 16/17 May was the first significantly unrestricted weekend, and so we went to visit my family post-haste.
Central Park after rain
October 2019
After this:
This:
And finally, after a really substantial quest the length and breadth of Manhattan in search of somewhere that does pie by the slice, this:
All photos (in progress)
