Belted Kingfisher

[gurdonark]

I had a dream last night in which I was on vacation in a wooded place. As the vacation drew to a close, I felt regret that my vacation neared its end. I saw a sign directing traffic to a small road. The sign said "Glen Falls". I wondered if I could walk to Glen Falls before time to leave. I felt sure I wanted to see a small waterfall.

My dream shifted. I sat at the driver's seat of a car. I looked at a display on my laptop. The car stood still in a row of cars. The pop singer Sheryl Crow walked nearby, promoting an album released as a promotional. She recited artists who appeared on the album. When she passed my vehicle, she made a joke about how I looked at a computer instead of listening to her. I found the joke difficult to quite make out. I woke up.

Last night after work I walked in Allen Station Park. After 10 days, more or less, of overcast skies, the evening proved sunny and warm. I saw a Belted Kingfisher at the hydrous waterpark. She dive-bombed the water a time or two for fish.

We watched the show "Shetland" on PBS. I like this show. I looked up the wikipedia entry for the island. I thought that the show certainly shows a lot of murders for an island of 23,000 people.

Comments

[ranunculus]

Donald and I love the Shetland Islands, not so much the "Shetland" detective films. They absolutely butcher really lovely books.

[gurdonark]

that's interesting. I only know of one or three things where I like the show or movie as well as the books. No surprise that the films do not capture the books.

[ranunculus]

In the first book they totally ruined the "suspect" character AND they manufactured a lynch mob that wasn't in the books.
In Red Bones they CHANGED THE MURDERER for no reason I could fathom.
Both times it yanked the film version out of the measured, small community, "island time", island isolation, interconnectedness and dependency on one another that the books portray.
After that we quit watching, but not reading.