Deck birds

[elainegrey]

This morning, the repetitive pleading of a fuzzy goldfinch fledgling waiting for its father to finish feeding at the feeder brought my attention to the deck. While i watched and listened to it, marveling how small it seemed for such a loud thing, noting the way its feathers seemed different from an adult, a humming bird came up and examined it, too. The father finished and joined its fledgling, revealing that the fledge was essentially full sized. The hummingbird and goldfinches were all about the same size. The finches left, comparative silence descended, and i watched the humming bird explore: it had an odd interest in the seed feeders, checked out the scented geranium, the tomato, the lemon, and then some purple flowers before i believe i spooked it off.

Yesterday evening i was all caught up in the flow of playing with data using my 1995 scripting skills. I do wish i had time to pick up more sophisticated scripting, in some language that was XML aware.

I regret, to some level, being caught up -- i was "away" from Christine. I did not sleep as well as i would like, my mind is caught between enthusiasms and obligations.

I've spent some time now playing with the yarn samples i plan to use in a dye experiment. Next i guess is library committee work, long deferred.