Morning Bird Pic

This one's in the interest of displaying another species. The pictures are a few months old, but I don't believe I've shown them here, and I haven't seen the bird in question around much since.

Here's the brown-headed cowbird. You'd mistake him for a black starling or perhaps a grackle until you catch him in the sun and see the distinctive brown head.

Summer's here!

Grades are in as of last night -- which means I'm finished with classes until the Fall. Now I can kick up CROW OF CONNEMARA and finish the last pass through it, and start putting together a proposal for a new book(s).

Oh, and there *are* some household tasks we've been putting off... I guess I'll have to get to those, too.