Not because it was time for a new cellphone. The old cellphone was only a couple months old and was perfectly fine until it drowned. It was riding along in my pocket then it just suddenly drowned. Coincidentally, it drowned at precisely the moment I decided to step into the kayak. The kayak was floating in the shallow water just a little offshore in the pond. I didn’t want to get my foot wet, so instead of stepping closer to the boat, I just took one big step from the dry land to the kayak. As one grandkid put it, I tried not to get my foot wet and ended up getting my hat wet. A full-body dunk. The new dry cellphone arrives tomorrow.
Prairie
A day trip out onto the eastern plains. As Saturday hike to Pawnee Buttes, from the overlook at the point of the first picture, across the escarpment on the right, and on to the buttes in the distance.
It was a good day for spotting birds of prey: Northern Harrier, Swainson’s Hawk, Red Tailed Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Prairie Falcon. Lots of other prairie birds: doves, shrikes, larks, buntings, sparrows, and longspurs. Swarms of them.
Saturday
The sound of morning coffee at St Vrain State Park
Even more techno
Judy bought an itouch:
It has all sorts of applications: photos, music; one application in particular I find interesting:
920 North American birds listed with identification keys, photos, range, songs, identifier feature. It’s nicely done.
Thursday
Our day to go get beat up by our friend John, the dermatologist, and his canister of liquid nitrogen. In a matter of moments he can make it look like you had a bicycle crash and landed on your face. (Funny thing though, a week later all those little dry and sore spots, the reason we went there in the first place, will be gone.) Back at Saint Vrain State Park, a bald eagle soared overhead.
Do you know how hard it is to take a decent video of a soaring bird with a hand-held camera? Let me demonstrate: