Nov 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
We took my boat out of the water on October 29th and there were many white pelicans lined up on the seawall at the beach house. Ha ha, taking my boat out has never before seemed like such a breeze. Motoring over, simple. Steering it up to the trailer, no problem....
Apr 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
…and the most important thing is that there was a Harley sighting!!! Last Sunday I spent a great deal of time creating an eye-catching lost cat flyer and changing it around a lot making many copies. Doing this made me feel that at least I was doing something...
Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
…Really??? How did that happen? Now it’s the first of December, and I’ve been MIA on here for much too long. I haven’t been lolling around eating bon bons, much as I’d have liked to, but instead I feel like I’ve been doing so many...
Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
When Spot and I sit down at the dock I end up taking so many pictures, and on this day, Oct. 14th, quite a few pelicans were paddling around. These two caught my eye. My favorite photo, a two-headed pelican. …and then they swam apart… … Spot and I...
Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Friday October 30th, mom and i walked at Lincoln Memorial Gardens and it was mighty chilly and windy, but the trees were beautiful. We’d put on our masks whenever people passed by but they were actually good for protection from the wind. Sat. Oct. 30th, I took...
May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Yeah, pretty lame that i’m just doing this now. same excuse as before; it’s now 11:30 on this sunny friday morning and at least i’m out of my jammies, but only just. lots of time spent reading reading reading about the coronavirus; the latest news is...
Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last Wednesday, April 8th, there were thunderstorm warnings and big hail coming down not too far north of town. So of course I ran down to the water to take a look. This is the sky a little before 5:00 p.m. That’s kevin over there on the left, talking to his...
Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
here’s a photo that jim sent me when he took that splendid video of the sunrise over the lake back on sunday september 2nd. I captured a few imaged from the video, as well. You can see the white pelicans better here. On that same sunday i tried to capture the...
Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
you know i rarely get a sunrise but jim sent me this beautiful video he captured. i can’t recall ever seeing the lake looking purple like this. plus i watched it first thing when i woke up this morning and only now do i see that there are a bunch of white...
Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
yay, we made it through january! Lester and Riley are chill. they stopped what they were doing for a moment so i could get a picture… …and then it was back to cleaning. i don’t think we’ve had two kitties who loved each other so much. Winnie...
Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. Xmas is now ridiculously close and i still have a whole bunch of stuff to do. I think i’m still a little tired from all the traveling. I just transferred my 2.3 millions photos from phone to computer and i can’t think about them right now, even...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...
Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
oh boy. head about to explode, late on a sunday night. first – new wordpress update and i can’t really figure it out. i know that when i did the update there was some kind of choice about doing it the old way, instead, but now of course i can’t...
Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is one of my favorite pelican photos (and I took approximately one million of them during the summer/fall). we went out on the boat on October 20th, and I went out again on the 22nd. kevin didn’t want to go with me, so I went by myself and had a...
Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
and the thing is it seems like deep winter all of a sudden. fall passed in the blink of an eye – it got deeply cold yesterday and snowed. ugh. to early. let’s go back to mid-October when we had that little flash of autumn. Winnie enjoyed lying in a new...
Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is the latest we’ve ever had the boat out…actually, every year since we had our old boat, it broke down sometime mid-summer. this year the water has been really high, plus new boat… it was a beautiful day for it, and I wanted to see if the white...
May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
this morning we took him to the vet and he rode on my lap – he was much less stressed there rather than in a crate. I told kevin to be extra sure that we didn’t have an accident since Winnie wasn’t buckled in. they had to take blood from his jugular...
Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
on november 13th as les and i were walking i spotted this white pelican. there are lots of them this year. he appeared to be swimming over to join this gaggle of pelicans farther away. you can just barely see him, as he managed to get closer. meanwhile, les was...
Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
whew. i guess that sums up my general attitude about most things in life at the moment. just whew. last night there was yet another ad on the tv about some new cell phone. they’re always so much BETTER and MORE ADVANCED and FABULOUS and SPECTACULAR. do you...
Feb 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
i just can’t stop taking pictures. yesterday was so awesome because the snow was melting like crazy. this goose looked like it was posing, or about to break into an interpretive dance. the lake looked so cool, with the ice melting like crazy. kevin shoveled some...
