Author: leh

rDay Thirty, Arbor Day

20150424-DSC_0057As I was shooting this afternoon, a guy stepped off his porch and asked me what I was seeing.  I said, “sky, clouds, trees”.  He said, “Oh, I wondered if there was something I should be aware of.”  I said, “Yes, sky, clouds, trees.”

And we continued our walk around the neighborhood …

rDay Thirty, Front Yard Fowl

Here is approximately the view I had out the kitchen window:

20150424-DSC_0008Then I spotted some movement — what I am told are white crown sparrows, nibbling at dandelions.  My lens was too short, my handheld grip was unsteady, and my view through the less-than-pristine window glass killed any potential sharpness.  But let’s severely crop a couple of these shots, and take another look:

Looks like I will never be a birder, but you might want to see a website I built (and fitted some of their photos to the headers) a few years ago — Friends of Ladd Marsh — for people who know what they are doing and how to do it.

And, if anyone is wondering, the lawn mower has not yet returned from repair.  Hence, our minor jungle.

rDay Twenty-Nine

Alternating clouds and sun, mostly the former.  Shopping today: health food store, Safeway, Walmart, BiMart.  Bump into Dennis in Safeway, one day back from Bahrain.  Walkin’ the dog around the ‘hood, sighting cars and oddities along the way.  

Man puts 8 bullets in his Dell, tells police it’s worth the ticket

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On Monday around 7pm, 37-year-old Colorado Springs resident Lucas Hinch took his Dell XPS 410 out into the alley behind the building where he lives and runs a homeopathic herb store, pulled out his 9mm handgun, and put eight bullets through the PC, in cold blood.

More details here