icture-A-Week 2023 - Week 04

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, January 23 and Sunday, January 29.

 

Did you know that every picture you take reduces the average cost per picture for the device you use to capture pictures? Take some photos! Fight inflation!

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[ski ww]

Went skiing yesterday, the forecast was sunny with cloudy periods. Never saw the sun all day. 

 

[pierces]

Virtually all of last week was spent at sea enjoying an uneventful but satisfying sailing on the Celebrity Solstice. The food was excellent, and the staff couldn't have been nicer or more attentive. We spent an hour in Avalon, 45 minutes in Cabo and skipped San Diego. We kept up with the news, I finished off an audio book while Kim browsed social media and relaxed with assorted tablet games. We talked about DIY projects including an entire morning researching bathroom upgrades and raising chickens. If you think we had a boring cruise, you’d be wrong. It was wonderful. Working from home means we have spent virtually all of the last 10 years within 50 ft. of each other and we’re perfectly fine with that. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

 

Best Friends

 

 

 

Dave

 

In case you're wondering...gaffer's tape. I still don't pack a tripod.

[zackiedawg]

Out to the wetlands on Saturday, Jan 28th to see what I could see...

 

A yellow-rumped warbler after a bath:

 

A male red-bellied woodpecker using those talons to hang down and check out the bottom of this branch:

 

The beautiful yellow-bellied sapsucker - note the series of holes all in a row drilled into the cypress trunk...this bird will drill dozens of holes quickly, then go back to the first one and lap up the sap that oozes from the hole, going back one-by-one to each hole to suck the sap:

 

Another yellow-rumped warbler, posing on a branch for me:

 

Female anhinga, just chillin:

 

The three tenors...three male boat-tailed grackles all displaying and calling together, to see who gets picked by the ladies nearby:

 

A wood stork, starting to haul some branches back to build its nest:

 

And the great egrets have returned and started their breeding plumage as they get ready to mate and nest:

[Victress2007]

 

I spent time in Puerto Rico last week.  We went to a Rum tasting at Ron del Barrilito, the oldest maker of rum in PR.  We highly recommend this, maybe we'll do the mixology class next time.  

 

Vic