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Happy new year everyone! We’re having a happy new year day here in sunny florida, 75 degrees, beaches, all good. Here are the photos from new years eve. Mostly birding, which was really great at the Darling reserve on Sanibel island. We saw great egrets, snowy egrets, lots of white ibises, spoonbills, pie-billed grebes, little blue herons, and tri-colored herons. Also, a balk eagle, a reddish egret, a white morph of the little blue heron, and some really close up wood storks! They are enormous crazy birds – all white, but their heads are all dinosaur-like, grey and scraggley, like the Skeksies on Dark Crystal.
Anyway, here are the photos from yesterday. Have a good new year!
Here are some photos from days 2 & 3 in Florida (mostly from monday). I’ll caption the photos that require explanation. Happy new year!
Day one in Florida! We took it easy, walked on the beach, and watched the sunset. That’s about it! Good day. We saw lots of birds, some of which are in the photos below: baby osprey in a nest, pelicans, very brave great blue herons, a little blue heron (which is all purplish blue!), many mocking birds. And, a manatee.
Here are some photos:
Life has been hectic lately to say the least, and I like the phrase “to say the least” because in the name of efficiency I’ve been saying as little as possible lately (it seems). But, let me just say that Wifey and I had a really lovely weekend of low-key movie watching and lying about with the cats, and she cooked some indian food (yes, she cooked! that’s usually my schtik – it was very delicious!), and we delved into the collection of CDs from the late 80s and 90s and rocked out old school. Let me just say that the Pet Shop Boys were involved. To say the least.
I drove on back to Castleton VT early this morning to make some afternoon meetings with students, and left behind (on purpose) both kitty cats in Ithaca. So, I am kittiless (kittyless? kittieless?) this week, which makes the apartment somewhat quiet. This is sad in some ways, but, in other ways, it’s quite nice. To say the least.
Sooty [3:47am]: MOWWWWW!
The menu will include, in addition to Turkey (not the country, capitalized because that’s his name), green bean casserole (wifey’s favorite), mashed potatoes boiled Rochester style (ie in saturated salt water) with caramelized shallots, apple rye stuffing (ala Real Simple), wild rice, cranberry sauce (congealing in the fridge right now), salad, and squash soup. Mmmmm. In the meantime, I have no food in the house I can eat. :)
Happy turkey holiday!
I so want to try this. XMas present hint: plane tickets to Wales. And a Kayak.
(Via Ben’s googleshares)
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