Birds, book, and SKELETON THEATRE, day 305 (maybe)
Honestly, I've got nothing but Skeleton Theatre on my mind this evening. I feel sorry for people who don't live in West Seattle and for those people who live in West Seattle but don't live within walking distance of the corner of 36th and Hanford. elijah_brown and I had noticed the stage being set up when we went for a walk a few weeks ago and yesterday they were actually fixing the skeletons in place and the like. But, due to my foolish belief that we'd have trick or treaters all evening, I insisted we couldn't go last night. I was very relieved to see, on the West Seattle Blog, of course, that the show would go on, regardless of the forecast. And, as it happened, it didn't rain at all and the show ran nearly without a hitch. Oh, one clip started to run again causing one young member of the audience to declare "boring!" but that really added to the charm for me. The story and the songs and just the whole damned production were excellent. That Body Parts song? It's my new favorite. Anyway, I just heart West Seattle to pieces, I do.
Though it didn't rain this evening it absolutely poured all day which did little to discourage the birds. Not a great variety but a ton of the usual suspects, all making a lot of noise.
Birds
American goldfinches
house finches
house sparrows
black-capped chickadees
dark-eyed juncos
Anna's hummingbird
northern flicker
Book
The most soporific sea kayaking how-to ever written (manuscript page 95)
Next up, however, Killing Hamlet. Fingers crossed.
Finally, the halo reveals that the subject has been over-sharpened but I like the expression on this house finch. I've just realized that he looks like he's asking, suspiciously, "Body of Christ?"
Father House Finch