No pun intended.

Ups and Downs of the Week

Weather – Weird, but very welcome.

Weird

Bruins – Looking like another Stanley Cup winning team.

This evening the whole sky was brilliant orange for just a few minutes. By the time I found a place to pull over and set up, the orange was almost gone. Still pretty colorful, though.

Ups and Downs of the Week

Bruins – First place in the Eastern Conference.

Airline Baggage Rules – The bozos who drag huge luggage onto planes and hold everyone up while they try to stuff it into overhead compartments don’t have to pay a dime. But those folks who do it right and check their baggage get robbed. Someone please explain.

Home Sweet Home – Always good to get back. And we still have a few more days off.

Bird merge. This is a merger of 24 images shot a few seconds apart. Lots of bird activity at the feeder today. One thing that struck me when I was merging these images was how the birds seem to have favorite roosting spots. The areas that have birds in this image actually had lots of birds that would have overlapped, whereas the areas with no birds simply had no birds landing there for the whole span of time.

Today we walked around Salem, MA.

We spent the day poking around Gloucester, MA.

As I’ve said before, we never visit Connecticut without stopping in at the Book Barn in Niantic. Today was the day.

No downers this week, folks. Merry Christmas to all.