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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.

Fallen autumn leaves
Backlit leaves Leaf litter Japanese Garden, Auburn Botanic Gardens Cape Barren geese, Auburn Botanic Gardens Swamp wallaby, Auburn Botanic Gardens Reflected branches, Billabong, Auburn Botanic Gardens

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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.

Backlit Japanese maple Detail, backlit Japanese maple Curling Japanese maple leaves Very very last light on Japanese maple Sunlit Japanese maple Backlit Japanese maple

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Rideau Lakes & southern Ontario

April 2024

I don’t usually comment on my travel (spoiler: it’s usually business travel), but this invites something of a “why were you in southern Ontario in early spring?” question.

We were there for the eclipse. The eclipse was clouded over in Ontario but we out-ran the cloud and saw it from Mont-Saint-Grégoire in Quebec. I didn’t attempt to photograph the eclipse though; it’s hard to do and I’d rather simply see it. Hence the easier-to-get lake photography.

Sunset at Chaffeys Locks The Tragically Hip Way, Kingston Benson Lake Reflection, Indian Lake Mossy rocks, Chaffeys Lock Clouds and cabin reflected in Benson Lake Beaver dam, Telephone Bay

All photos.