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Dinner with Mrs Han

We had a nice evening with our friend Mrs. Han tonight.

Eight courses of her wonderful Korean cooking and plenty of left overs that we were "forced" to take home.

We enjoyed visiting and hearing Mrs. Han's stories.

In this photo they are laughing at ME because they think I take too long to take a picture.

( I think it is time well spent!)

Blooming

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Birds

My new camera is slowing down my walks quite a bit.

Too much to photograph.

This week I spent and hour with a green heron on the shores on Minnehaha creek.

He was caught up in fishing so did not bother to fly away from me.

He got many small fish but at one point was surprised to catch a sunfish that he dropped.

It looked too heavy to hold and too big to swallow.

The red legs indicate a breeding male.

These are details of his feathers

These turkeys were at Hyland nature center.

I think they were upset about an impending storm.

They did a lot of yelling.

A little later there was a tornado north of the area.

Spring HAS arrived!

Finally. Spring.

This fellow was stalking a heron.
The heron did not see him but luckily was startled by me and flew.








Birds and their songs were everywhere.


Kingfishers, Orioles and many I could not identify.

Spring?

No. I can not say that Spring has arrived but it seems to be arriving.

A few buds .

Greenhouse plants sprouting.

A Turkey nests.



This heron looks like a monk to me.

While I was watching birds,

this guy was watching me!

Santa Fe for Two.

Bill and our took our first vacation by ourselves.

We had time to hike, sitesee and rest.

Good week.

Practicing....

It tooks years to do so

but I finally got a DSLR.

A gift from Bill.

The weather was not good for

nature photography this week

so I spent time learning to use my new macro lens.

Netsukes are good subjects.

Cooperative.

Tireless.

Immobile.

This is the first Netsuke I purchased 25 years ago.

We found it in Hawaii.

I picked this subject because we were awaiting the arrival of our first child.

This is one my mother got as a gift from her sister -in -law.

Such detail.

Not a netsuke.

But serene....