November 20, 2007

• Recent Photos

  I popped in here today, against medical advice, to upload some pictures I captured over the past three weeks or so.  Now I understand why I wasn’t spozed to do this.  I’m very weak and tired, and Xanga really sucked me in once I started reading messages and comments.  I have a new reader who already feels like an old friend, and of course my old friends’ lives go on while I’m out of touch.  There is no catching up, I’ll just have to pick up again when I can come back full time.

  A few weeks back, before the snow got deep, I noticed on a trip to the outhouse that a big flock of little birds, certainly more than fifty and maybe fewer than a hundred, were foraging for birch seeds in our trees.  Individuals would flit in small flocks among three of the big trees laden with cones, leaving the snow beneath them littered with little brown bits of debris.  You’d need to click for the bigger version of this to see the few birds that stuck around after I went back in for the camera.
  

  Below is a blow-up of the best bird shot.
  

  Eerie filtered light from a just-risen sun a week or so later…
  

  Later still, just last week, I wanted to capture some of the newly fallen snow, and ended up sitting on my butt in it as I squatted for a better angle on this one.
  

  The four shots above were taken in my front yard.  All three below were taken just yesterday, after more snowfall, in my backyard.
  

  Below, along the right edge, is a snow cornice hanging over the edge of our roof.
  

  

  Now I am on my way back to the end of the couch next to the woodstove, to behave myself.

  

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