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Red Time

I had the most amazing experience this afternoon as I drove down Rte 149 into town. I was making all the turns and curves just like always, when this shadow shot over my windshield. The next thing I knew I was looking at the backside...in flight...of a redtail hawk! He was practically hovering over my car, and following it as I drove. I must have been traveling at just about the speed limit on the road, which is 55 mph. And this raptor was shooting ahead of me. He remained about 5 to 10 yards ahead of me and then shot off to the side of the road where he alit and I whizzed by. I wish I could say this was my photo, but it's not. It's just the closest I could find to indicate the perspective I had on this particular bird. Mine had a very distinctive red fan tail as he floated above me.

On another note altogether...it's kimchee time. Love making the ginger/garlic/pepper paste with my mortar and pestle.

The Long Cyber-Winter is Over!

For months...some of you remind me it's been since November of last year!...I have been able to post writing to this blog, but no photos. Alas, some, nay most and possibly all my inspiration to write comes from the illustration and the lack of that, at the very least, took the fun out of it for me.

So though I attempted to post photos by sending them to my friend Dan (with whom I do GayWisdom.org) that was pretty much an unworkable solution. Dan has many better things to do than to post my photos.

As it happens, it turns out that the reason I was having problems had to do with the server I was using. At one time I had three different servers on my machine (which I am told simply clogs the works in the end)...Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. I almost never used Internet Explorer, was pretty wary of Google Chrome and stuck pretty close to Firefox. But when I had a PowerBoost done by Norton, the technician removed all of them but Internet Explorer.

And Internet Explorer was the problem. I can't tell you why or anything, but the moment I switched over to Google Chrome, I was, once again, able to post here.

Harrumph!

So I missed posting the chrysanthemum turnips Pat and Barb served us for New Year's Eve dinner in Maine...I missed posting about my little health scare in December when I went down to NYC for routine bloodwork and ended up in the hospital for three days!...I missed the holidays altogether (including my mother's quadruple bypass, open-heart surgery) and I've all but missed the weird winter we've had in which we've had more rains than snow and those rains nearly washed away our drive.

Worse, the lack of ability to write about what life is like here in the country (and anyone that tells you it's quiet and peaceful is crazy!) made taking pictures less fun and less urgent in my priorities. 

That's all over now.

It's been a long frustrating winter, blog-wise. I am pretty sure some people who had been following have given up on me. But we're BACK! 

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