February 3, 2017 by drkottaway

Reveal

The bird napping in the tree is a great blue heron. In the last two posts, the heron had its head tucked under its wing. I did not try to get closer because I did not want to disturb the nap any more. The clue from a distance was that the heron is only about 30 feet up in the tree and looked huge: too big for an owl or a hawk and not an eagle.

The Kai Tai Lagoon Nature Park is right down the hill from my house, about 5 blocks, and near Safeway and two blocks from our busiest road. And we have lots of birds….

February 2, 2017 by drkottaway

With feathers

Here is a closer glimpse of the thing with feathers in Kai Tai Lagoon Nature Park. One more shot tomorrow, that confirmed the identity….

February 1, 2017 by drkottaway

In a tree

Walking in the Kai Tai Lagoon Nature Park on Saturday, I see a large balloon in a tree.

Then I think, wait, that’s not a balloon.

Guesses, anyone? It was about 9 am.

January 19, 2017 by drkottaway

Droplets

I took this in Portland, a couple months ago. Leaves down but fruit still on the tree, each with a droplet in the rain.

December 14, 2016 by drkottaway

Conundrum

For the Daily Post Prompt: conundrum.

How to get a good photograph of the moss on the tree…. oh!

December 6, 2016 by drkottaway

Murder

This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Munday #87 . We are in a city in the evening….

November 21, 2016 by drkottaway

Pick a plan right for you…..

We are in open enrollment for health insurance in the US. Meaning that they all are going up in cost and they are cancelling plans and offering new ones. And advertising: pick a plan right for you!

What the hell does that mean?

It means that all of the plans exclude things. Oh, well, aromatherapy…. that’s what you are thinking if you are not a US citizen. Of course the plan doesn’t cover aromatherapy or crystal healing or fringe treatments….

Well, no. I had to choose between two plans when my daughter was 17, that is, two years ago. I could choose the one that covered cancer OR the one that covered pregnancy. Uh, yes, that is correct. One EXCLUDED pregnancy healthcare and the other EXCLUDED cancer healthcare. For me and my children.

Which would you choose?

My mother died of cancer at 61 and my sister at 49. My daughter was not dating yet. Observing.

So we picked cancer.

I photographed the crows out on a walk the other day… how many does it take to make a murder?