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Stuff It was cold again on Monday evening and when I woke on Tuesday morning the pool was a very chilly 67.8 degrees. By the time I got in the water it was up to a balmy 72. I swam 34 laps right after lunch and was planning on swimming another 32 laps before dinner […] Stuff It was a chilly 38 degrees at ILE yesterday morning and it never really warmed up a whole lot. I went down to the lake am and pm but there were no birds on The Perch and not much going on otherwise. ” I did a lot of work on the 5d Mark IV […] Stuff Sunday dawned clear and cold –48 degrees, with a strong northwest wind that made photography just about impossible. I got lots of work done on the 5D Mark IV User’s Guide and watched lots of UFC on TIVO and lots of NFL football. I swam my easy 3/4 mile with the pool down to […] Stuff On Saturday it was rainy and chilly. I worked on several images and blog posts, drove around ILE looking for perches — I found one nice one, and, late in the day, swam 3/4 easy miles. The pool was 81 degrees, the air temperature was an even 50 degrees. Right now it looks […] Stuff On Friday it was dark and foggy and drizzling most of the day. Jim dropped Anita off at the Orlando Airport on his way home. As far as getting stuff done, it was a hazy lazy day for me too though I did get a bit of work done on the 5D Mark IV […] Stuff On Thursday morning it was foggy-dark so Anita and I searched for new perches. We wound up finding and setting up three, but so far none can compare to The Perch. I worked on photos and blog posts, visited Publix and ART chiropractor TJ McKeon in town, swam my slow 1/2 mile plus, visited […] Stuff On Wednesday morning we headed down to the lake in thick fog and photographed a female Anhinga drying her wings on the perch for about 45 minutes as the sun broke through. Here is some of the other stuff that happened on Wednesday: 1-I had the roof of my house pressure washed: $300.00. […] Stuff Tuesday morning at DeSoto was much better than it was on Monday morning. We started off with a young and an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in a beautiful setting in sweet early morning light. Then we made a wiggle. I concentrated on fishing and posing Snow Egrets and some foraging Ruddy Turnstones. An unexpected bonus […] Stuff Monday morning started out very tough. A lovely image of that amazing super moon in a pink, predawn sky at 500mm was available but we were blocked by utility wires. By the time we got set up and in position the fog had covered the moon which was not be seen again that morning. […] Stuff On Sunday morning I had two alarms set for 3:15am. The both went off right on time. I finished packing for my DeSoto busman’s holiday and planned to leave at 4:15am. I woke Anita North and we were both coffied up and just about finished packing at 4:10am when I happened to look down […] Stuff Friend Anita North — visiting from Toronto — and I, got up really early to search for a tall skinny perch tree to plant in the lake. A few that we had spotted previously did not work. We wound up checking out a badly burned wood lot and some looked decent. As I walked […] Stuff On Friday I made some really nice tight head, and head and neck portraits of Sandhill Cranes down by the lake near my home at Indian Lake Estates, FL. With gorgeous blue water backgrounds. Surely my best ever. In the afternoon I took a ride to River Ranch to look for some birds, most […] Stuff On Thursday I headed down to the lake morning and afternoon and pretty much struck out. So it goes. I did lots of work on the 5D Mark IV Users Guide; I am close to finishing the text. When that it done I need to add images and captions. Many of the images will […] Stuff I spent a good hour on the phone with Apple Care as my Macbook Pro was acting strangely; the screen was blacking out periodically and I was having some password issues 🙂 Apple’s Jennifer was great and everything is running perfectly right now. Knock on wood. I did have time for a half […] Stuff On Tuesday I went down to the lake and did OK with a perched Osprey, a nice Black Vulture headless flight image, a 1200mm flying adult Bald Eagle, and some Turkey Vulture head shots. Then the usual BAA work (e-mail and blog stuff) and my 3/4 mile swim. New were 20 cobra push-ups every […] Stuff I spent most of Monday dealing with low back/hip pain issues. 🙂 And I cut down one more skinny dead tree as a potential perch. And I swam my 3/4 mile and exercised. If you need a hotel reservation be sure to give Booking.com a try; at worst, you will save $25 off […] Stuff Sunday was a lazy day filled with mostly crummy NFL games. I cut down one small, skinny dead tree and sawed off a long, sturdy branch from a fallen dead tree to serve as perches once I plant them in the lake a ways out from the shore. Boy, that wood was hard! Folks […] Stuff With the alarm set for 3:30am I was in bed at 8:30 and asleep by nine. I woke feeling well-rested at 3:09am. I showered, had a quick breakfast, and finished packing at 4:44. The cab was outside waiting and off we went. I did not get TSA-Pre and though there was a big crowd […] Stuff Home safely and getting ready for a swim … Wanted to Buy Canon 7D Mark II in at least excellent condition. Please shoot me an e-mail if you would like to sell yours. Click on the logo-link above to check out the latest silly-sick low prices on just about everything that B&H […] Stuff The early Friday morning forecast was less than ideal: clear skies with freshening northwest winds. But it was my last day so I left younger daughter Alissa’s house just after 6am and headed to Heckscher State Park. The puddle in Field 7 was frozen solid and there were no birds anywhere so I headed […] |
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