Birds on ponds

[gurdonark]

We walked to our little neighborhood park, Glendover Park, and to the tiny pond in its center. Swifts and a scissortail flycatcher were dive bombing for insects on the surface of the water...quite a show. I took pictures of the park with my 1 dollar Family Dollar store instamatic--but the birds are a moment in time which eludes the camera's slender eye.

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heh

[inushnu.livejournal.com]

I caught two crows in the "act" today.

hehehe! like i should be used to PDA's in these times but it STILL makes me giggle!

:^>

wait

[inushnu.livejournal.com]

you were talking about birds EATING.. not sex.

hum.

my bad.

LOL :P

Re: wait

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

it's a natural assumption, springing from the word "dive-bombing".

in an unrelated note, I was just tonight looking at an old thing I wrote about how
poets write so many poems about sex, and not enough poems about mutual funds....

Re: wait

[inushnu.livejournal.com]

whoa. you are SO right! It wasn't long ago that it occured to me that I have NEVER written one on mutual funds but then, overwhelmed by my sudden inadequacies, I repressed the knowledge.

dang. and it is SUCH a juicy (no pun) subject!

*shakes head*

Re: wait

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Although I finally found domestic happiness,
I must admit that annuities are better than dating, because annuities continue to accrue interest over time, and annuities never say "I just want us to be friends" or "I don't like you in that way anymore".

Re: wait

[scott-m.livejournal.com]

You could combine the two themes in a poem called "Amouritzation"

Re: wait

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Amouritization...that line gave me a chuckle...

"She's stopped paying interest,
he said to himself,
as he perused the financial pages;
Every quarter, we used to..."

Well, never mind. The image doesn't quite work.

ducks and cameras

[gregwest98.livejournal.com]

On the way to work, a mallard swooped down and paralled my car for a bit. I was going the speed limit ( *ahem* more or less...) and only passed him slowly. He must have been moving at least 50-60 mph. Amazing! I had no idea a duck could move like that or would ever be motivated to try - especially along a freeway where there is no water nearby.

Anyway, I've located all the misc. bits that go with my old digicam. If I can ever find the energy or actually remember to, I'll package it up for you. Then, we'll see if I can ever make it to the post office. That's a big "if", I hate the post office

Re: ducks and cameras

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd love the digicam, thanks!

I was thinking that your two kids E. and E.
might enjoy each of the following things:

a. an 8 dollar shortwave radio I found
at a Dollar General and could not resist due to the low price though I have a good 30 dollar one already; and
b. 2 ONE DOLLAR new 110 cameras. These are really literally just a square tube with a whole in it in which the film fits in....a little tricky to use,
but at ONE DOLLAR they were absolutely irresistible.

If you can make it to the postoffice, I'll post these
exciting things back to you. I strongly suggest, though, that a postal scale and a trip to usps.gov's postage calculator may be easier, but if yours is like ours, the lines at the P.O. can be long.