Thursday (29-October-2020) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nighttime Nature in New Jersey.

Opossum up on the patio looking for a meal.

Daily Electric Energy Used (??? kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (41.0 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Lots of sun. A deficit of ??? kWh. The folks at Sense have been have issues providing energy usage data for the last several days.

Wednesday (28-October-2020) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nighttime Nature in New Jersey.

Deer up on the patio eating my wildflowers.

Daily Electric Energy Used (50.5 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (7.1 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Lots of clouds, little sun. A deficit of 43.4 kWh.

Thirteen-Years Ago (27-October-2007) — Colorado

Autumn Nature in Rocky Mountain National Park

I miss visiting Rocky Mountain National Park nearly every week when I was working part-time in Boulder, Colorado. For the last several weeks I have been spending time a lot of time going through my image catalogs looking for bird images that I can add to My eBird checklists. I am about half way through 14 years of images. So far I found images of 375 species of birds in 46 countries, territories, and dependencies. One of the great things about My eBird is it helps me identify bird images by comparison with images in their collection, and by what birds would be common (or rare) for the locations where I took the images.

Steller's Jay. (David J Mathre)
Steller’s Jay at Rocky Mountain National Park. Image taken with an Nikon D2xs camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/4, 1/60 sec). (David J Mathre)

Daily Electric Energy Used (45.5 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (30.4 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. The sun came back. Forced air dehydrator on to dry end of season hot peppers. A deficit of 15.1 kWh.

Three-Years Ago (25-October-2017) — New Jersey

Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.

Late Afternoon Fall Colors.

Backyard Nisse with Mushroom. (David J Mathre)
Late Afternoon Fall Colors. Image taken with a Leica T camera and 18-55 mm zoom lens (ISO 100, 22 mm, f/4.5, 1/160 sec). (David J Mathre)

Daily Electric Energy Used (38.8 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (17.8 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Cloudy and rain. Forced air dehydrator on to dry end of season hot peppers. A deficit of 31.0 kWh.

Weekly Electric Energy Used (300 kWh) from Sense. Weekly Solar Electric Energy Produced (123 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Cloudy, rainy, and cooler outside during the week. Geothermal HVAC turned on to warm the house. Also continuous use of a forced-air dehydrator processing hot peppers. A deficit of 177 kWh.

Four-Years Ago (24-October-2016) — New Jersey

Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.

Backyard Nisse with a Mushroom.

Backyard Nisse with Mushroom. (David J Mathre)
Backyard Nisse with a Fall Mushroom. Composite of 24 focus stacked images taken with a Nikon D810a camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens (ISO 200, 60 mm, f/3, 1/640 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro, and the image stack processed with Helicon Focus. (David J Mathre)

Daily Electric Energy Used (45.5 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (15.6 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Cloudy. Geothermal HVAC system turned on to heat the house. Forced air dehydrator on to dry end of season hot peppers. A deficit of 29.9 kWh.