“Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” — Anonymous

Random photos of the week. Not my best week of photos.

Sunday, 03/17/2024: Posted photo — Wet Road.

The subject of my weekly photo project this week was road. As with most weeks lately, I had full intention to take another photo for this project and time flew by. I am finding it more difficult to do this weekly project that it was to do the daily project.

This is a photo looking down my street from our driveway. The water on the road gives this photo my character that if the road were dry.

Monday, 03/18/2024: Posted photo — Boundary.

There are two Massachusetts State Parks withing 10 minutes of our house.

The 3,000-acre Wachusett Mountain State Reservation offers plenty of natural and recreational opportunities. And Leominster State Forest that has hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing and fishing. Both locations have segments of the 95-mile Midstate Trail in them and I hike and snowshoe in them, depending on the season. Leominster State Forest is flatter and easier to snowshoe in, and I have rock climbed the Crow Hill Ledges often when I was younger.

You have seen many posts from me about my hiking Wachusett Mountain and not many about my adventures in the Leominster State Forest. I will have to post more about those hikes.

Tuesday, 03/19/2024: Posted photo — First Day of Spring.

Today is the first day of spring, the vernal equinox. This was the earliest that the vernal equinox occurred across the contiguous United States in 128 years. Why was it the earliest that the vernal equinox occurred across the contiguous United States in 128 years.  According to space.com, there are two specific reasons for this: 1) The quadrennial intervention of leap year often causes a slight variation of the date, and 2) Daylight saving time (DST).

These are tulips that are starting to break through the soil at our house. I was looking to take photos of crocus, but have not seen any this year.

Wednesday, 03/20/2024: Posted photo — Are you Looking at Me.

I came home from work today and saw this squirrel just looking at me. I took out my phone to take it photo expecting it to run away, but it just stayed there.

Sorry about the quality of this photo.

Thursday, 03/21/2024: Posted photo — Combinations.

One of my co-workers heard a story about a state running out of license plates numbers in a particular state so he wanted to know how many combinations of six digits there are. I sent this problem to my son, a mathematician, and these are his calculations.

He did the calculations with (36) six-character plates (26 letters and 10 numbers) and with five character with the last digit indicating the month of registration, as it is done here in Massachusetts. There are other special cases that he did not calculate.

Friday, 03/22/2024: Post photo — Good Morning.

Some snow and ice on family vehicles. Taken in the future (Saturday morning, not today)

Saturday, 03/23/2024: Post photo — Snow and Ice.

Woke up to snow and ice. This weather was expected. I had to run some errands in the morning and the roads were bad. I saw a few cars that have drive off the road. Some people are just invincible.

That is all for now. Until next week, be safe.