caught the sun

For once, I had time to go get the camera before the sun was through playing with the horizon.

400 posts? Well, it's a nice one.

squirrel update

I moved the bird feeders into each other's places. The squirrels were able to overcome this.

The upside down method works just fine.

I was unable to get any pictures of the birds using it, because if I approached the window with the camera, the birds assumed I was about to let the dog out the door and fled.

squirrel proof

Both of these feeders are sold as "squirrel proof" and so they have been, for almost fifteen years, in five (more or less?) different houses before this one. Although the dome shaped one was once conquered by a Very Tall Squirrel who could hold onto the center pole with his hind feet, s t r e t c h down across the dome, and reach inside with his front feet to stuff his cheeks.

This guy has simply managed to push the dome up its sliding post and slip underneath, holding it partly up with his body.

I have never hung the tube one where it would have a standing place below it until now. Clinging to its outsides does not seem to give the flexibility needed to reach into the tube through beak shaped openings.

These squirrels are highly motivated and quite fat. Maybe I need to switch the feeders. (The squirrels have already destroyed my third (tube-type) feeder by simply ripping the bottom out of it.)

golden table

I've never used these things together before; in fact I'm not sure I've used them at all, as opposed to displaying them on a shelf somewhere. Both the candle holders and the bowl (dish? jar? container?) were golden wedding gifts to my grandmother (and my grandfather, too, technically, but these were from friends of hers). I never noticed how close in tone to the wood they were until I tried to photograph them.

This is how I set the table for my supper on winter solstice night. All that sunshine color was very satisfying. I didn't even need to light the candles.

over the sink

Here's a wreath one of my former roommates and I found in the trash and added the plastic poinsettia to. I've alway hung it on my back door, wherever that was, but this back door has no handy hanging places, and in this window my neighbors can see its silhouette at night.

The window to the right appears to be the room they watch television in at night, and the curtains are never drawn, so I don't think they added the blue tarp to the west side of their screen porch just as I was moving in for reasons of privacy. Probably as a wind-break.

losing the sun

I saw the most beautiful pink sunrise a few days ago. I was going to get the camera as soon as I finished the necessary getting-ready-for-work thing I was doing. But the sun was too fast for me. By the time I got back it had climbed up under the edge of the clouds.

Just the brightness lighting up the trees.

broken ornaments

I work at an animal hospital now. We have Christmas decorations. We broke a few unpacking them this year.

So we mended them.

;) It's what we do.