Hot, Hot, Hot!

Spent the morning watering the blueberry bushes. Thank you, Eddie! He got tired of hearing me complain about carrying 5 gallon buckets of water out to the front field to water my babies. So last year he set me up with a 25 gallon water tank that runs off of the JD 180 battery. What a blessing! So while the tank empties, I pick.

Time to start baking blueberry tarts and freezing blueberry pies!

Lazy Hazy Days of Summer

Lost in the black hole of the USPS

Man, oh Man, oh Man...NOT AGAIN! Weeks and weeks of work and worry....gone, somewhere else. And...I paid to have it disappear! Can it get any worse? Finished, blocked, gift wrapped and Priority mailed the Classic Lace Baby throw to my niece for the birth of her first child. Never to be received and never to be returned to me...the sender.

Next gift I knit will be hand delivered, in person, from my arthritic hands to theirs.

This really s**ks.

Squirrel Standoff

Mya faces off with the local squirrel feeder/strawberry bandits. She stood her ground and protected the home front. A most loyal and protective cat!

The Porridge of Regret

The full quote:

You may sup the porridge of regret with the spoon of sorrow.

This resonates on too many levels.

Flutter, Flutter, Glide

Coming back from Phillie on Friday evening, I was driving down the hill onto the Conowingo Dam. The sunset was so stunning and the urge to pull over somewhere and capture it was so compelling that I almost missed the curve onto the dam..
Trying to stay in my lane, (driving across bridges have never been my strong suit) I almost missed seeing something awesome in the sky above me. Osprey, Immature Bald Eagle,..not sure which. This guy was covering ground, even as I followed him doing an easy 40 mph. The wing span was at least 4 - 6 feet.

But the wing stroke was what really caught my attention. Flutter, flutter, Glide.

Hawks hunting voles in the corn field bordering my garden will hold station using the Flutter, Flutter of their wings.


There have been Osprey photographed at Conowingo. Eagles traveling from Canada to winter over at Conowingo have attracted photographers for the past several years. I've recently seen mature Bald Eagles soaring above the fields in Jarrettsville, Madonna and the NCR Rail Trail in White Hall.

Hummers - Thru my kitchen window

Just found this little guy while playing with the Picasa 3 download. I took this with my Lumix on a small tripod on the kitchen table. You can see the screen in the background.

Pretty amazing for a $100 camera.