Pretty pictures

All sorts of things continue to go wrong here, the latest being my computer becoming erratic in function. Gee, twelve years old and rebuilt once and it seems to be having hardware difficulties. Unfortunately I can’t replace it because A). I’m not made of money and computers are just one example of things that have shot up obscenely in price and B). everything that is available (and a lot isn’t) is pretty much junk anyway, and not just because they have Win10/11 on them.

That’s all as may be. I mean; we’re having food shortages here again, the COVID numbers are increasing (12 dead one day, 15 the next), weather is still trying to murder everyone by switching between thaw and melt so there’s ice everywhere, and my wife is still stuck in England for the foreseeable future (things have to stabilize before she comes home and there’s no sign of it happening in either country).

Wow, what fun eh?

I’m even having trouble finishing the lens test series as a result of all this craziness.

In the mean time, let’s just look at some pretty pictures out of the venerable Nikon.

One pileated woodpecker who visited.

A second pileated woodpecker who visited at the same time as the first.

A black-capped chickadee (a breed which is fairly abundant here lately).

The yard the birds were in before the melting began.

Ah this is how the leather case turned out once I got the new strap for it. Matches nicely, doesn’t it?

Kitty is sleeping. Sounds like a good idea to me.

We’ll see how things go the next few days. Although I can’t really plan even a day ahead because the forecast is hit-or-miss and the edicts from On High are random and often confusing. For now I’ll go with the cats’ take on things and sleep as much as possible.