A more expansive drone view of the frozen Red River in Fargo today (towards the right side of the photos). Looking forward to when it starts to melt sometime this April and new leaves start budding in May if Winter ends that early this year.

Top down drone view of the frozen Red River today in Fargo. Just a small area that is liquid where the rapids are but everything else is frozen in it and all the rest of Fargo.

@redgreen925 @edrogers That certainly does happen frequently nowadays. I figured I would get some good photos of it while it was still standing since I like building architecture.

@redgreen925 @edrogers The building was in pretty bad shape. It is all affordable housing for seniors and disabled residents. I knew someone who had lived in it. They are going to replace it with affordable housing again but with a better and more modern building with better safety features. They looked at the cost of repairing the pipes in the building but it would have been too expensive and cheaper to replace the whole building.

@redgreen925 Not to worry. They will be removing all the asbestos before they blow it up. Will try to get some drone photos when it blows up from a distance this summer. It will probably be the most exciting thing that happens this year in Fargo and they will have a view area nearby also.

Another cold day in Fargo. The tall brown building in the foreground is scheduled to be imploded this summer since it contains 923 tons of asbestos having been built in 1971 and would be too expensive to refurbish.

Today over Fargo.

Drone photos of Downtown Fargo this evening. It is supposed to be -20 next week so got these photos before the weather turns too cold for flying.

Today was a lot colder than yesterday here in North Dakota. Some of that snow is quite deep and there are some frozen ponds and lakes under them you don’t want to accidentally fall through. There is snow and ice everywhere all the way to the horizon.

Some drone photos of the North Dakota countryside today. Only about four more months of Winter until the snow melts. Was a bit cold today so I could only fly the drone for a few minutes outside at a time. I warmed up the batteries before I flew so the drone would have enough power to fly.

Was probably around -2 when I took this drone photo of Fargo today from around 400 feet up. Wednesday, it will be around -44 with the windchill so probably won’t fly drone that day since lithium batteries start losing power fast at that temperature which reduces flying time. Snow was about a foot deep where I launched the drone from. In the upper right you can see the Red River frozen over.

Cold out here in North Dakota today. Could only briefly fly the drone for a short time before my fingers froze.

Doing some SwiftUI work today and noticed my macOS App on the Appstore is now ranked at number 40 in the Strategy Category.

Downtown Fargo at night by drone at 400 feet up in subfreezing temperatures. The drone can move around the city at night at 30 mph so I decided to see what was going on up there. North Dakota is mostly flat so it makes for some unique drone views.

When I'm not writing open source software for GreenChess, I'm doing drone photography in Fargo, North Dakota. But it is very challenging in the Winter when it can get to -40 degrees in the Winter with high winds. I did manage to go out briefly and take this photo with snow gloves on so I could operate the drone controller. Had to warm up the batteries so they wouldn't freeze which can lead to a drone crash.

I'm currently working on the newest version (9.0.7) of the free and open source GreenChess App for playing chess on macOS and will be incorporating some SwiftUI components into it.