Unexpected Journey

…to Crossgates, arriving right after a literal bus load of teenybopper girls. Eeks.

Escaped with this. Declined personal set up.

obligatory labelling the new and shiny
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Oh my. This is quite fast. Down from 1 hr 58 min to 17 min remaining in no time…

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Guard Gnome

Front Yard During Rain

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Flashback Thursday

Flash back to the 2008 ice storm while writing today’s postcard

2008_icestorm

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Yo! Big birds! What?

Two big groups of birds rising on two different updrafts. Big but not vulture or eagle wing shape although one slightly larger that seemed like a candidate for a vulture. Too far away for a picture but they were north-northwest of the Lord and Taylor/best buy parking lots.

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Viva the Fleur de Lys Moth!

I re-posted an interesting moth that cousin Tiffany had posted. It had an interesting design and I figured my insect-loving friends would like it. One was able to identify it because she’d seen one very recently. Ah the miraculous powers of the internet, so before I could spend a moment looking it up myself – BLAM – an ID.

This morning quite early, I stopped to get gasoline for the car and coffee for me (more on this later) and as I reach up to select the octane (for the car), BLAM – a fleur de lys moth aka Clymene Moth or Haploa clymene.

Clymene MothClymene Moth

Today I get to call the doctor’s office because apparently no one could tell me last week that I needed a new prescription for physical therapy so I got there (against my wishes, let me just make clear) this morning and was told I should touch base with the doctor and see what he wants to happen next. At 3pm or so this might not have been such a big deal but at 7:30am, it’s a big deal.

So I’m sticking with the moth as my good start to the day and I’ll go from there.

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