yesterday, furiously painting the bathroom, i came into the living room on my way to the basement to find a paint container.  i looked out the window, and all the gulls in the world appeared to have landed on the lake.  here’s what they looked like from the deck.

i started to walk down towards the water, and it was amazing how loud they were.

they just kept coming in and settling…

here’s a panorama so you can see all of them, plus the geese over there on the right.

as mollie and i got closer to the water, the birds starts to rise up.  the noise was incredible.

louder and louder as more and more of them took off.

finally, here, i think they were all in the air.

higher in the air, and they all swung around facing the direction that they’d come from.

they started settling again, further away from this shore.

and they continue to drop out of the sky onto the ice.

…and almost all of them are settled in again, at a much safer distance from me and mollie.  just in case one of us was going to try to swim out there and get them.

it was sunny again yesterday, and grey today.  no gulls at all in sight.  there’s more ice down next to the dock, even though it’s supposed to get up into the high 30’s today.

and i’ve been putting off returning to the painting way too long, i must get back at it.

i hope you get outside today because of the potential snow tomorrow accompanied by falling temperatures.  theoretically i’ll take mollie for a run this afternoon.  right now she’s very happy to be curled up on the couch.

ok then,

thursday already grace.