Tuesday September 18
Was able to stay home for a couple 0f hours in the morning and enjoy the birds in the garden. Went out to try for a better photo of the lilies and of some other late bloomers, when several chickadees landed in the vine maple next to me. Took my first clear photo of a bird. It's certainly not brillant, but at least it's mostly in focus.
No tricks either, the sky really was that blue and the vine maple leaves that orange. During a year when that particular tree's leaves turns orange it happens in August. Also in the garden were several Varied Thrush, juncos, ruby-crowned kinglets, song and fox sparrows.
Moved another load of alders from Scott and Patty's garden to the park. Unfortunately I've taken all the easy ones so I'll have to find another spot. There were two or three Steller's Jays in their neighborhood both days that I was digging. I've never seen one on Galankin, interesting that they haven't ventured over.
Stopped at Swan lake again to see if any other out of the ordinary birds have joined the greater white-fronted geese, no joy there. I do like the look of the geese though and managed to produce a passable drawing of the top half of one in drawing class.
Class produced a couple of bits of random drawing wisdom: vertical lines in nature really are vertical and some drawings are not worth trying to fix. Nice to have been given permission to abandon some of mine.
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