This morning Travalon was sitting out on our porch, and he called me: "There's a big bird in the tree!" So I came out onto the porch and saw our local wood duck pair sitting in one of the trees outside our condo. Travalon's good camera was sitting right there, so he grabbed it, but the battery was dead so he had to take photos with his cell phone.
I actually got this yesterday, so it's some delayed DuoLingo bragging:
I worked on campus and went to the monthly Bach concert over lunch. Today they did one of my very favorite (and seasonally appropriate) cantatas, "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." To my surprise, as I was leaving, I ran into one of the leaders of Moldy Jam. I said, "I had no idea that you liked this kind of music!" and he said he used to play a lot of Baroque music. Then I ran into two bus buddies on my way back to work, and we complained about Dear Leader. It's hard to believe he is badmouthing the Pope, but there is no depth he won't stoop to. Someone said it's because he resents God, since he doesn't want anything higher than him, or anyone worshiping anything besides him, and that's why he throws tantrums on all major Christian holidays, besides posting AI images of himself as the Messiah. That tracks. Also, the Pope is the most-respected public figure by Americans according to a recent poll, and Colbert is second. That tracks too. Then in the afternoon I walked with Seabird, since we hadn't walked at lunch. She keeps telling me how thin I'm looking these days.
Travalon went to Stricker Pond, and he saw a great blue heron:
The weather was much better today, but our chair was leaving a bit before I was and said it was looking bad out there. His window faces west; my office faces east, and I didn't see anything other than harmless-looking clouds, but I did sneak out a few minutes early and just beat the rain. Now there's a flood watch - will it ever end? I thought April showers were supposed to bring May flowers, not disasters.
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