Last night just about sunset, while I was driving West on Hwy 116, I saw a HUGE flock of White Penguins! I had never even seen one, just "the usual" California Brown Pelicans coasting along the breaker line at Bodega. They were flying in an elongated "V" like a very long necklace of Canada Geese... I was watching the group floating behind the leader when I noticed the birds were the wrong color, white instead of the black-necked buff color I expected. Then I checked the black wing-tips, and the goldy-yellow beaks... THOSE aren't geese!
A good end to the day.
A Little Background?
- Librarynan
- Oakland, Oregon, United States
- I was a High School Librarian for ten years in Northern California, and a classroom teacher for seventeen years before that. When I retired, I moved to a small timber farm outside Roseburg, Oregon, with my husband, three dogs, and of course... the cats. The blog "Wanderer" relates a bit of our life in the woods (PNW name for the forest) for our friends and family, and "Pigs Might Fly" details my quilting. Now that I've been retired for two years, I am actually finishing some quilts! I've added "Red Hill Mud", "Sticks and Strings" and a blog for Pastels. All those are additional crafty loves and deserving of their own spaces. I split my creative time between quilting, making pottery, knitting, cooking, pastel landscapes, and gardening. I do love to travel and our daughter, who teaches Elementary School overseas - family business, I guess - tells me that I need to make a tee shirt with the legend "Will Work for Airline Tickets" on the front. She's probably right, I will do almost anything for a ticket to almost anywhere - within the limits of propriety, of course.
Cats Bells
Derwentwater and "Cats Bells"
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