being not doing

First bloom of the year, on the new hellebore. Since I’m now a parent and find myself saying dorky things like “Lead on, MacDuff!” and “it’s a doggie-dog world” on a regular basis, I am going to just come out with it: is this thing on? I think I may have hit a record length [...]

Test photo: our dining room Buddha. By hoarding my personal money like one of my young cousins and pooling all of my birthday and Christmas cash, I was able to buy the new camera that I’ve been lusting after! (At least no one had to drive me to the mall to do so.) I’ve wanted [...]

After many delays, I finally updated the version of WordPress I’m using to one that supports tags. In an effort to blend in more (hah!) I’ve been going back and finessing old entries to have fewer categories and more tags. In the meantime, things may look a little odd, for which I apologize. Once the [...]

I’ve updated my lifelist to reflect the sightings of the past month or so. I still need to find usable photos (e.g. those in the public domain or licensed for non-commercial use) and enter a bunch of latin names, but the list of birds itself is now complete. Through doing this update I’ve realized that [...]

This past week has been a full one: I’ve added a half dozen new birds to my lifelist, sighted in or near my town! Over the past few days I’ve spotted a Lousiana Waterthrush, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, and Yellow-rumped Warbler, in Wells Run, the creek that runs through University Park. A few weeks ago I [...]