Not a whole lot to report for the past week except dreary weather. Cold, gray, and snow covered. Lise is down in West Lafayette so Molly and I are sharing a car, limiting my ability to get out much. Not that there is a whole birding or photography with our weather. I did a drive around some local fields today, hoping for some hardy winter species like horned larks, Lapland longspurs, or snow buntings. There was a potential shrike reported around the MSU pavilion too. The wind was pretty nasty so everything was hunkered down except for one small flock of horned larks. The fields are pretty much snow covered and have been for several weeks so I don’t know what these guys are eating. Might be a Donner Pass thing.
Cold cows hanging out in a bunch with snow blowing around them. Kind of like musk-oxen on the tundra.
Snow blowing across the road. Kind of like the tundra. Notice the lack of birds. And sunshine.
Between the weather, time constraints, and limited transportation, I haven’t had much time for serious photography. I’ve managed to get in a little time to play with Photoshop. Powerful program if we can harness it for good instead of evil. It’s pretty easy to get carried away with it. Just google “Photoshop mistakes” to see some really awful Photoshop manipulation that got past some really awful magazine editors. So trying to harness it for good, I’ve been playing around with a picture of Molly from last summer. The background is a local graffiti wall on campus.
Molly before Photoshop.
Molly after Photoshop.
Molly in black and white.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 