Soaking up some rays...

 Pat - sunbathing end of April

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Barry Wallace

Above Aurora Delmanor's rooftop...

Photos by Barry Wallace

Contrails over Aurora

With clearer, sunnier skies over Aurora in April, contrails appear clearly in the the skies thousands of feet above regular jet aircraft travel.   The contrails are created by American Airforce B52s which, for decades, have constantly flown hundreds of miles back and forth across, up and down North America, including Canada (see Norad).   In this day and age, jet aircraft and transport planes,  other than air force planes, also create high-altitude contrails.

Contrails, short for "condensation trails", are linear, artificial high-altitude clouds composed of ice crystals formed by aircraft exhaust (water vapour) are exhaust particles (soot) freezing in extremely cold air.   They typically appear  at altitudes of 7,500 to 12,000 metres (25,000 to 40,000 ft.

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Barry Wallace

Trees at Delmanor Rooftop Terrace in Aurora start spring budding...

 

Rooftop Terrace artwork

                     Swainson's Hawk flies over 6-storey Delmanor Rooftop Terrace

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Barry Wallace

Swainson's Hawk - Delemanor Retirement Residence - Rooftop terrace

Photo by Barry Wallace

Pictured above is one of six Swainson's Hawks currently being seen around and above Delmanor Retirement Resdience on Butternut Ridge Trail in south-west Aurora.

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Barry Wallace

Early spring sunset...

                                                                       Photo by Barry Wallace

March 29th sunset photo

Looking westward from Butternut Ridge Trail in southwest Aurora.

'Goodbye to winter!'

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Barry Wallace

'Summer Fence" by Phil Chadwick...

                                                                   Painting by Phil Chadwick

Shown above is 'Summer Fence' painting by Phil Chadwick, one-time King Township resident and Environment Canada weatherman.   "Summer Fence' is a memory from the summer of 2003 and Watershed Farm on the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine.

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Barry Wallace

End of March miscellanea...

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Barry Wallace