Slow down, enjoy the show…
Sometimes I think here in Silicon Valley we forget just how wonderful and beautiful this place we live in is.
With the weather having returned to winter weather and some much needed rain, I spent Saturday indoors, working on stuff, like cleaning up the photo library (lots of half-finished imports, etc) and tweaking the blog, and writing.
Today, the weather cleared up a bit, so I headed out to run a couple of errands, and while out, I decided I had to get out and go birding, just a bit. So I ended up at Calero Reservoir down in Coyote Valley, hoping maybe to find the bald eagle that’s been hanging out there (nope), or maybe the loon (nope). It’s interesting to track this area season to season — last winter we had good numbers of loons around the area, this winter, we have had close to zero, but large numbers of mergansers. Birds are so unreliable — sort of. While these kinds of variations happen every year, we also have birds that return, year after year, to the same location and many times the same tree.
I missed out on the main birds I was looking for, but heading back into Coyote Valley, I ran into an osprey with a fish.
It wasn’t exactly pleased at being watched, so it gave me two steps away from the car and flew up, grumping at me as it left. It ended up circling around me a bit, then coming down in the middle of a pasture out beyond the geese and staring at me while it ate until I left.
About that point it started raining, of course. But I saw a beautiful cloud formation across the pasture, so I grabbed my wide angle camera and started shooting. About that time I realized the rain was bouncing — it wasn’t raining, it was hailing. The things I do for you people to get interesting pictures…
By the way — geese do not like hail. Just saying.
But looking at that vista, taking those pictures, made me stop and remember, just for a minute, how beautiful this area is and how many things we have going for us here when we stop being too busy to look and explore. Those of you living in sleeping bags under your desks don’t know what you’re missing. Hopefully you’ll figure it out before it’s too late…
Of course, after a minute, I realized it was still hailing, and decided warm and dry would win out over more photography for now, and got in the car, cranked up the heater, and came home to what the NHL All-Star game…
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