Except for one really nice exception, it’s been a really slow birding week. Last weekend someone over in Hastings reported long-eared owls at his home. So Sunday Lise, Barb and I skedaddled over there to see them. We were visitors 58, 59, & 60. He had a well-worn path through the snow to a set up a scope. Species number 53 for me and 58 for Lise. A lifer for Lise too.
The rest of the week we have pretty much been doing the wage slave thing. Really nothing new to report on that front. The big news is the weather. Apparently some great power has gotten tired of screwing with us and raised the temperatures above freezing. The joke isn’t quite over though. When the temperature goes up the ice starts melting. Like any well behaved fluid, flowing water obeys gravity and takes the path of least resistance. Which in this case means going behind the siding and seeping into our living room floor. So I spent the morning up on a ladder removing ice dams from the roof and guttering. This was the north side of the house which hasn’t seen sunlight since about October. We’re talking ice dams that looked like the Greenland ice sheet.
Okemos weather.
We’ve also been getting ready for the Panama Canal cruise. Apparently three of our dinners are to be formal attire. Tuxedos or dinner jackets recommended, neither of which I own. So for laughs I Googled information about formal wear. Most of the pictures were either of James Bond or some guy named George Clooney. The only assumption I can make is that I’ll turn into one of these two if I buy a tux.
Haven’t gotten in any new photography time so I went back through old photos to do some black and white work.
Anemone, California.
Dead jellyfish, Texas coast.
Kelp, California.
Sunset, Missisilpin River, Delaware.
Sunset, Oregon coast.
Reflecting rushes, Sand Lake, Deerton, MI.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 