Let's Make Some Art, Dammit

June 30, 2024. Some birds frolicking in a tree not far from the walkway in Warwick Forest. We went for a nice walk, my heel hurt again, but we still went to the football game in the evening. https://flic.kr/p/2q2jCJc

January 7, 2023. It took a few days, but the birds have discovered we put food in the feeder again. We had stopped over the summer because of avian flu, and we didn't want them gathering all together. This is a female cardinal; we haven't seen the male yet, but we hold out hope. There have also been chickadees, blue jays, and dark-eyed juncos. spent the full day toying around with node,js on the cloud, trying different things. https://flic.kr/p/2oavRDs

March 30, 2021. The robins are avoiding the cluster of birds in our back yard so I photographed this one on a neighbour's lawn. Another indoor day today even though it was nice outside as I rest my strained muscle. I spent the day wrestling with a cluster of errors in my page publishing script (it's a wonder it was workinbg at all on my website). Working on it for the container version I kept hitting edge cases - cron that created files before they were published, scripts trying to publish non-existent authros, etc. I think I've caught the worst of it, and improved error handling to catch other edge cases. I also wrote a short blog post over lunch. https://flic.kr/p/2kGG8R4

March 23, 2021. Our local blue jay paid us a visit today; here it is with a beak full of seeds from the feeder. We had an an abundance of different birds in the back yard today: woodpeckers, cardinals, grackles, sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, and more. Today was also a really nice day for biking, but unfortunately pain kept me indoors (I'm pretty sure it's just a muscle strain, as there are no other symptoms at all). Still, I managed to make pretty good progress on gRSShopper, which is looking better than it ever has. https://flic.kr/p/2kGwYv9

This is a bonus daily photo featuring the antics of the birds at the back yard feeder (whihc has attained a new popularity with yesterday's snowfall). https://flic.kr/p/2kt2tWT

July 18, 2019. We saw these cedar waxwings in our back yard - it was a bit hard to get a decent photo because of the morning lighting. They were lined up for the blackcaps (black raspberries) lining the deck. Today was a rest day as my late night earlier this week caught up to me. That also meant it was a Costco day. https://flic.kr/p/2gBKrnW

April 7, 2017. OK, this isn't the best photo in the world - they were taken with the Sony outside the window. Both of these cardinals - a male and a female - were in our crabapple tree. So I guess we have a pair of nexting cardinals around here. Awesome.