http://carpelumen.ca/potd A semi-random photograph for each day of the year. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_609" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Lightning on August 20, 2009"][/caption] A different shot of the lightning that came with yesterday's storm. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-21/arc/ [caption id="attachment_606" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Lightning on August 20, 2009"][/caption] A major storm system hit Ontario today, causing what were possibly tornados in a town called Durham, and killing one person. We braced ourselves for the worst tonight, but other than a spectacular light show and a brief downpour, it was over ... http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-20/zap/ [caption id="attachment_602" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="19ish-day-old gerbil babies, cleaning their faces"][/caption] A group shot of our litter of strange critters that shouldn't be... washing their faces. Eyes should be open soon. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-18/scrub-a-dub-dub/ [caption id="attachment_598" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Baby gerbils, about 19 days old - the one in the foreground is grooming"][/caption] How we came to have baby gerbils is one of the strangest of the strange stories - one of our MALE gerbils seemed to spontaneously change sexes after living with several other males ... http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-17/gerbil-babies/ [caption id="attachment_595" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Meteor trail during the 2009 Perseids"][/caption] For the first time, I managed to capture a few meteors in photos tonight that were actually clear enough to be seen. This one conveniently passed nearly through the centre of the frame, and only needed a minor crop to make ... http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-13/streak/ [caption id="attachment_591" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Clouds gathering over a cornfield"][/caption] More clouds from the storms yesterday. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-12/accumulus/ [caption id="attachment_587" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Storms building up over eastern Ontario"][/caption] A breathtaking sight from today. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-11/gathering-storm/ [caption id="attachment_584" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Long exposure of vehicles moving through the traffic circle"][/caption] You probably need to look full-screen to see the lights up high from a large panel van that passed through the circle, adding an extra set of lights to the typical trails created by vehicles passing through the ... http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-10/van-in-the-circle/ [caption id="attachment_581" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Light trails at our new local traffic circle"][/caption] I like the way the light trails in the background of this shot formed an arc as the cars entered and travelled around the circle. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-09/the-arc/ [caption id="attachment_578" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Light trails at our new traffic circle"][/caption] Another in a series of photos taken at our new traffic circle. http://carpelumen.ca/potd/archives/2009-08-08/low-angle-circle/