Its melancholy call caught my ear while out in the backyard this morning, and this mourning dove obliged me not only by staying put until I could return with my camera, but also by offering up this interesting pose (click image for the bigger picture):
Ranger can be counted on to occasionally sing along with sirens as they come in and go out of earshot through the neighborhood, and I can usually be counted on to not have a device handy to record the musical interludes — but not today. With Ranger in the livingroom I was able to get …
While it used to happen on occasion prior to our remodel, never yet had all of our four cats simultaneously napped together on the bed upstairs — until Sunday (click it for the bigger picture): The puddles of cuddles are from bottom left: Bink, The Jig, Pepper (atop the left pillows) and Pumpkin. And while …
Last summer, I moved outside a small birdhouse that Susan made (and that’s decoratively lived inside since she built it long before I came along). I attached it to a decorative post that wasn’t doing very well holding a birdbath and for a little extra height I mounted the post to a small end table …
(click it for the heavily stylized bigger picture) I made the mistake of believing the worst of the storm had past this afternoon, and set out to take care of a truck errand on my lunch hour. Since the work on my Nissan was going to take about that amount of time I went for …
After setting my reading specs down on the table beside my chair in the livingroom last night, I chanced to glance how I’d serendipitously placed them upon the current copy of Smithsonian magazine and it gave me a chuckle as I grabbed for my cam to capture it (click it for the bigger picture):
At first entirely wary and hesitant of the feeder recently installed on the porch, this hummingbird (best guess is it’s a rufous hummingbird) eventually came back (as you’ll see in the latter half of this video) for a meal. PS. It’s much more enjoyable to break out of these meager dimensions and watch the thing …