I've been trying to put together an update for you but I am utterly dragging after a very fun and interesting week. We just got back from a highly productive trip 'up top' which has brought us that much closer to moving up there. This meeting involved surveyors, archaeologists, electric company and gas field reps. Somehow the many, many objectives were completed by early afternoon; a good thing considering that there are weighty and bleak clouds rolling in as I am typing this.
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I am hoping to be recharged and back before the weekend. At that point, you will be hopping in the truck with us and then hiking a mile or two through the sage brush behind a very informative archaeologist just for starters.
But, for now, I am going to find a willing bedcat and take a much needed nap before our favorite cowboy shows up for supper in a couple of hours. I will try my absolute darnedest to be back before Saturday so don't wander too far away!
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Yesterday's visitor.
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12 comments:
that is one fantastic photo!!
I have the flu :o(
Thank you, Simon, I was fairly pleased with that one myself but it sure feels good to have someone second it.
My complete sympathies on your flu - I woke up from my nap with a full blown bug, too! Just lovely.
yes the photo is fab, i spend at least 4 hours a day with finches, doves, jays, sparrows and go through 25 pounds of bird seed a month...bird seed doesn't cost as much as gas yet
I shouldn't read blogs when I'm sleepy. I read that as "I'm going to find a willing BOBCAT and take a nap. . hey, whatever floats your boat. :)
Glad to be home from jet recurrent school, and catch up. Thanks for all the emails while I was gone.
I've been wondering where he had gotten to...been too rainy here I suppose. Sure is different from last year about this time.
putz, I dunno, pound to gallon at least, I've seen some pretty pricey bird seed out there lately. And I'm sure it will rise as gas influences the production costs. Sugar for nectar will undoubtedly follow. ouch
Ah-hah-hah-hah! LinM, we've seen a few bobcats out here and they are the cutest darned critters but I hear that they make absolutely lousy bedcats - too tough on your bedsheets when they get to purring and scratching.
Hey, someone has to keep the e-mail fires burning at home. Hope you get some quality time this week-end with 'the fuzzy one'.
Wow... you had to have your shutter speed set at something like one-zillionth of a second to freeze those lil wings like that!
Excellent!
And... waiting with baited-breath (ya, I DO like anchovies on my pizza) for the Up Top Update...
Mushy, we've been running dry here and I haven't seen the numbers arrive that we had this time last year either. I'm figuring that we MIGHT have half a dozen individuals visiting the feeder when there should be over two dozen by now.
Buck, I gotta confess - that freeze was the work of the new camera. I think my mind has deteriorated since the old FTB with manual f-stops, etc. The new digi cam is a Canon S3 IS, just like Red and Sally's BX find. They both spent part of last week-end trying to make mine more user friendly and succeeded. Now I can look through what is no longer a straight optical view-finder and actually SEE what I am trying to capture. Before that, everything was horribly 'point and hope' ... and I would mostly luck out if it resembled what I was seeing in real time. The Ludd trudges on ... sigh
hummingbirds are the most achingly beautiful little things, and I'm enchanted by the way you captured his little feet exposed - gorgeous!
Yeah, what Phlegmmy said! What a fantastic picture!
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