Nice bike ride this morning; foggy and damp, showing off the bottomland colours of autumn in the little valley where I ride. The trees and streams all dark and muddy, the few leaves left are shreds of bright green or yellow, pink or orange against the darkness of trunks and water. I almost didn't see any of my wildlife chums, just joggers and dogs out with their walkers, but in the return leg I did see a young deer. Lovely person!
I also saw a NEW BIRD!!!!!!! New to me, obviously, not an undiscovered species. Along with the usual doves and blue jays and robins and mocking birds that I see near the ballfield, there was a cedar waxwing! Never seen one of those before, but I recognised it right off from the books. There was also someone small and red-headed, who may have been a house finch.
Lots of helicopters overhead--are we ferrying OSCE election monitors around, like it was Haiti? :-)
GO VOTE! (of course, this admonition doesn't apply to thoise of you reading in places where there isn't a vitally important national election today... :-)
I also saw a NEW BIRD!!!!!!! New to me, obviously, not an undiscovered species. Along with the usual doves and blue jays and robins and mocking birds that I see near the ballfield, there was a cedar waxwing! Never seen one of those before, but I recognised it right off from the books. There was also someone small and red-headed, who may have been a house finch.
Lots of helicopters overhead--are we ferrying OSCE election monitors around, like it was Haiti? :-)
GO VOTE! (of course, this admonition doesn't apply to thoise of you reading in places where there isn't a vitally important national election today... :-)