Better late than never...

Thanks to advice from tech-savvy friends, the computer & camera are back on speaking terms. So, here are photos that go with Insert Photo Here. Read that first. Or not.

The daredevil ducks and the curious squirrel.

The devastation of Prospect Park.

Box of therapy.

The overseer: "Get back to work! Don't make me come over there! Oh, you made me get up...now you're in for it!"

Spring Sunday

I push my little pink camera to the limit.

Yesterday I learned that if you have a steady hand

'landscape' works well for closeups of things far away

like this squirrel in a tree

that I would have missed

if we walked our usual route.

Ditto for this guy

the no-neck heron

we took a turn onto a tiny footpath
that meanders along the smaller pond

we've never taken that trail

and were rewarded with my first sighting of the season of this oddly shaped bird.

A muskrat popped up out of the water,

saw us, did a flip and dove beneath the surface.

Puppy kept waiting for him to reappear

but he didn't. So there's no photo of him.

Small dinosaurs stalk the neighborhood . See the flying fish in the background.

Early afternoon

is prime turtle-spotting time

they like to sunbathe

and are really good at holding still

She's on her nest, so that suspicious look and the hissing are completely understandable.

Here's a photo of someone taking a photo,taken from across the big pond. We met up with her later on the covered bridge. She was wearing a sweatshirt and pink pajama bottoms. I was wearing baggy sweats, sunglasses, and my sunhat. Snappy dressers, both of us.

"I'm taking a photojournalism class and I'm supposed to be asking people if I can take their picture, so I'm photographing geese and ducks...." She seemed harmless and friendly, so I said ok, and she took candids of me and Puppy. So Melissa's class will be seeing photos of a sleek beautiful dog and her frumpy taking-a-break-from-making-pies human. Melissa's camera is big and powerful. But it's not pink.