Since my last journal entry began "long, hot summer," it seemed about time to update (since snow is falling, though lightly, for the third day). My decision to buy myself a birthday gift, a 300mm lens, was thwarted by the laws of physics: inertia to be precise. Moving person, moving cup, moving coffee. Person trips. Person stops. Cup stops. Coffee keeps on sailing--right onto the laptop keyboard. Apparently the only thing more susceptible to the ravages of liquid than a camera is a computer. So much for the "sealed" keyboard. The new computer (ch-ching!) has a much larger hard drive and better graphics card (all the better to see those mistakes, my dear). Ah well....

So I continue to shoot birds from too far away. The only escape from a very difficult life season is sticking my head onto the deck to capture the winter birds. They've come in abundance. They've come in glorious color. They're eating me out of house and home. When my niece and nephew asked what I wanted for Christmas and I said, "birdseed," they replied, "how lame." Lame it is!

Not much time these days even to enjoy everyone else's work. Perhaps another day.