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Neighbour's Flowers

On a short walk around the block to stretch our legs, the little one pointed to these flowers and wanted me to take a picture.

What I think they were really pointing at was the bee that was a pleasant surprise when I downloaded the pictures.

Bright orange and yellow flower with a bee

Day 42

Macro weeds

Sometimes its hard to decide if its a weed or wildflower.

Day 41

White Peony

Peonies don't last long. There are a couple of waves but the hard rain is beating them hard so I need to take pictures of them when I can.

Day 39

REALLY Pink Peony

These peonies were so bright that I had to dial down the saturation to make them look "real".

Day 37

Pink Peony

We have white peonies at home, but there are pink peonies around the neighbourhood.

Day 36

No ducks at the park

We took our first trip to the wildlife park in 2023 this morning. I'm glad we left as early as we did because by 11am it was already starting to get hot.

Spooky

The park was spooky, or at least felt off while we were wandering around, and then it …

Cool purple flowers

I don't know what this flower is called, and I can't be bothered to look it up, but its pretty.

Day 35

Windows File Hashing

I have started hashing the official files that I issue to clients, but I keep forgetting how to do it with powershell, so this is for future me.

The way I do it is to navigate to the folder with the file(s) to hash and then use the command …