I have nothing to say. I wish I did.

I was sad this morning until I opened my front door and the mesmerizing sight of rain falling on puddles made me inexplicably fleetingly happy. Upon reflection, I thought: maybe it's that book, Peter Speier's Rain! For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of becoming familiar with this children's classic, Speier wordlessly celebrates the ( Read more... )

I finally got around to uploading some pictures from Canada as well as a few highlights from earlier today. New job is keeping me on my toes and away from the computer ( Read more... )

It has been a long while since I've said hello to LJ at all, and I'll probably be largely absent at least in the near future. If all goes well, I'm leaving for Calgary next Thursday to visit a friend. I'll finally get to set foot in the Rockies! I hope to have lots of pictures to share.

I know, I'm really boring because I never say anything but pop on and add an irrelevant sentence every once in a while. I'm not going to change today, because we don't need any more earth-shattering events. Things have been calm enough in this corner of the world ( Read more... )

I'm still alive and kicking...yesterday I took a long nature walk; some photographic evidence is below.

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Oddly excerpted from stuff I read today:

"'Now, which is better to die from, a grenade or bullet, or bloody peanuts?" - Tristan Jones [a Welsh seaman, and no, this is not about anaphylaxis ( Read more... )

I've been hibernating, or wishing I could; knitting, because I haven't much felt like reading; eating plums, mmm.

happy spring

I went to lighthouse point park this morning to see new birds and practice photographing them, with some success.

Here are two brants (Branta bernicla)

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This morning I finally registered to vote in the state I actually live in. Now I have to do my homework and figure out for whom I'm going to vote *tomorrow*.