Remarkable
Instead of sunrises, which are out the back yard and beyond the pines, sunsets from here as the house faces 321° NW
The sunsets are nice. Clouds bearing thunderstorms come from that direction also.
Meanwhile, early as sun's light reaches nest, one baby osprey flexes wings as sibling looks on from the other edge of the nest, and father bird from his usual perch on the platform.
Fledging can't be but days, or even hours, away. And within some weeks they will all fly south. Same shot bit fuzzy but larger detail:
Fledgling and migratory life expectancy for the first year is 50% for young osprey. Their parents, though, have been coming here since 2003, sixteen years now.
Joe and Ray have driven away to StAndrews State Park. Malinda is in her room, Linda is in the garage taking advantage of early morning temperature to do some work on the long blond chest that Ray saved from the house after the storm. It was built for Linda's parents as they moved into their new (now demolished) house that was once at 518 BCR, from scratch and a picture of Baker Furniture, by Ethridge Cabinet Works, about 1951. I have no idea what ever happened with the other pieces that were built at the same time for the same set.
Life is reasonable and satisfactory. But for the storm, we'd not be with Malinda every day, would not see Kristen almost daily, and we wouldn't be getting to enjoy Lilly growing and maturing into her remarkable self.
And the classrooms in the Bill Lloyd Building at HNES Cove School would not be looking like this
Remarkable! Picture yesterday: thank you, Rayford.
RSF&PTL
T
The sunsets are nice. Clouds bearing thunderstorms come from that direction also.
Meanwhile, early as sun's light reaches nest, one baby osprey flexes wings as sibling looks on from the other edge of the nest, and father bird from his usual perch on the platform.
Fledging can't be but days, or even hours, away. And within some weeks they will all fly south. Same shot bit fuzzy but larger detail:
Fledgling and migratory life expectancy for the first year is 50% for young osprey. Their parents, though, have been coming here since 2003, sixteen years now.
Joe and Ray have driven away to StAndrews State Park. Malinda is in her room, Linda is in the garage taking advantage of early morning temperature to do some work on the long blond chest that Ray saved from the house after the storm. It was built for Linda's parents as they moved into their new (now demolished) house that was once at 518 BCR, from scratch and a picture of Baker Furniture, by Ethridge Cabinet Works, about 1951. I have no idea what ever happened with the other pieces that were built at the same time for the same set.
Life is reasonable and satisfactory. But for the storm, we'd not be with Malinda every day, would not see Kristen almost daily, and we wouldn't be getting to enjoy Lilly growing and maturing into her remarkable self.
And the classrooms in the Bill Lloyd Building at HNES Cove School would not be looking like this
Remarkable! Picture yesterday: thank you, Rayford.
RSF&PTL
T