I've been watching the birds flit about in the shrubbery out back this morning, and I managed to catch a couple with my camera. Here is a dark-eyed junco, ID'd with the Merlin app on my iphone.

I highly recommend the app; it was developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and is really easy to use. You choose the size of the bird, major colors, ( Read more... )

I've been trying to get out walking every day, and most days I succeed. Unless it's bone-chilling cold, or precipitating heavily, I go out for a walk. I downloaded an app that tracks my walks (Walkmeter, suggested by lamentables), and I've found that I'm walking farther than I had estimated. Yesterday I walked 3.32 miles, and I had previously estimated that ( Read more... )

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As the roads here are coated in ice, I've decided to go in late today. I spent ten minutes scraping ice off the car windows, pulled to the end of my drive, and saw cars moving at about two miles per hour, so I pulled right back into my drive and came back inside. They said on the news that cars are off the road all over the place, and there was a ( Read more... )

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