Such good suet

These red breasted nuthatches are quite feisty at the feeder and often chase away the chickadees.

Sparrow

Several of these have been hanging around near the feeders with a pack of slaty juncos--the kind with cute little pink bills. I'm pretty much in love with the subtle colors and the feather pattern.

Yellow Roses of Memory

Trying to find another photo in my digital archives, I found this one and began playing with it using Nik filters in an old copy of Photoshop on my old laptop. I made several new versions, and I'm not really sure about this one, but I loved what happened when I brought up the light. I have lost my Silver Efex Pro software and was somewhat consoled by finding I can still use this. I wish I had mastered putting these filters into the new versions of Photoshop, but I never learn what I should and then it is time to learn something else. Here is a bouquet from the past, altered. Which is also a characteristic of the Memory Thread. Good night.

Morning light

P1040477, a photo by jhhymas on Flickr.

I took a lot of these this morning, but tonight they seem a little dark. It was a beautiful dawn!

Late winter browse in sepia

Late winter browse P1120244, a photo by jhhymas on Flickr.

I guess what I like most about this is the conga-line aspect. And that all three have lifted the left rear leg. I took this through the window, because if I go out on the porch, they all run away.

Rainbow at Sunset Tonight

I've been thinking a lot about blogs and what they are for, or what they might be for. . . I cannot say I have reached any conclusions, but I can tell you that just as the sun was saying goodnight, there was a rainbow! I want to write about the things I am reading this summer--because I have been doing an immense amount of reading. I am getting used books from Amazon and electronic books and classics for the Kindle. Never before have I been reading so many different books at the same time--but it isn't too hard to switch and keep track. I'm surprised. And the resonance, humming, or clustering of fact and thought can be wonderful. So maybe I will write about it after all. I guess I should write a thank you letter to Jeff Bezos. After having been a librarian all my life. . .

The beauty of sunset

P1120311, a photo by jhhymas on Flickr.

This is the third time I've tried tonight--there seems to be a problem with the Picasa-Blogger interface. I have been thinking a lot about blogging and what it is for and if I should start a new blog that is "for" something else, my year of reading. Since coming here, I have relied on Amazon Kindle and the used books from Amazon. I have pursued all sorts of things I want to write about on blog that are neither poetry nor photography. We'll see if this one uploads. Fingers crossed. To be continued. . .