I was out this afternoon with my camera and all the other Looky-Lous to see what sort of havoc this week’s nor’easter had wrought… the sea’s still really angry-looking, but finally the wind’s stopped howling.
OK… fess up! What common birds do you obsess over?
(I also have a thing for skimmers and blue jays. And all manner of ducks.)
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Pic taken from the ferry to Cumberland Island, somewhere along the intracoastal waterway.
Any sailors among us?
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I had just one experience as a child in sailboat that I remember looked something like this. I didn’t fall overboard or get seasick. Considering how scared I was… both major triumphs!
When he’s not tending to his chickens or garden, or ranting about something or other, my brother Kevin moonlights as a computer geek.
Isn’t he cute?
We got together tonight so he could load PhotoShop onto my shiny new Mac, but there was a technical snafu, so that didn’t happen.
My computer geek brother brought home the Windows version of PS rather than the Mac version.
(rolling my eyes)
I took the opportunity to harass him some about not updating his blog in weeks. I helped my niece with her math homework. I got a tour of his new barn, but the chickens were already asleep.
Early-risers apparently.
Do you have a sibling with a skill that makes them your *go-to person* for something? What is it? Do they usually come through for you?
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In addition to his computer skills, I can always count on Kev to keep me laughing.
I’ve been pretty out of it the last couple days… funny how not feeling well can so easily reduce one’s *to-do list* to the barest of essentials, things like:
finding the very softest spot on the pillow to lay my head
keeping the tips of my toes under a blanket; my upper body was alternately (maddeningly!) hot or cold, but those toes had better be covered!
dreaming up something (anything!) that would make my sore throat feel better… chocolate pudding (somewhat)… popsicles (didn’t last long enough)… warm saltwater (ick, but effective)… coffee (felt awful; you can imagine the state that had me in!)… chicken soup (nice, but the noodles felt like they were getting stuck way back in my throat)
TMI, I know.
Anyway… I was at the doc in a box place before they even opened on Saturday morning.
And back at the pharmacist on Sunday morning wondering if the darn antibiotics shouldn’t have me feeling at least a little bit better by now?
I have to be desperate before I’ll see a doctor. Once I’ve taken that risk, I expect to be rewarded with feeling better pretty quickly. Waiting on meds to work their magic is hard when you’ve hardly slept or ate or done anything without a small measure of pain for a few days.
Builds compassion for others who are genuinely sick though, I think.
I felt the first tinges of an appetite returning late last night and managed a whole bowl of cream of broccoli soup.
Then I slept like a zombie and this morning there was coffee again.
Yum.
Today I’m aching to be out with my camera capturing more of that late summer light.
Out at Sandy Hook the other day, among the clamshells and bits of drift washed ashore, we found this part of a skull that I imagine belonged to a bird. It’s a duck’s bill, I think.
I’m not really even sure which way is up, but the bottom (pictured, I think) has an interesting texture, almost coral-like, that I imagine has happened since the bill was attached to anything living.
I checked in my Bird Tracks and Sign book, which has a section on skulls, but didn’t find anything to help me beyond the guess that it’s a duck’s bill.
Anyone know of a good online reference?
In these parts, the highlight of Labor Day Weekend is mostly about what changes afterword; the beaches are free again, there’s less traffic, we “locals” have the place to ourselves again…
