April 10, 2006
Another neighbor
He lives around the corner...well, around three or four corners.
Actually, if you are, say, leaning over a fence to take a picture of a llama in someone's yard, and an emu notices you and comes over to see what you are up to, I bet you jump back a few feet real quick. Emus make good watchdogs.
Here's a llama:
Oh hell, now I have the Llama Song in my head. Sorry, I hope I didn't do that to you, too.
(I could also post a picture of a duck...but I won't. Not this time.)
These are just snapshots from Sunday's errands. I did a little serious picture-taking, but not enough to brag about. Flipping through a magazine Sunday afternoon I saw an ad for the New York Institute of Photography home study course. I remember seeing that same ad in photo magazines back in 1982...maybe I'll give it a shot now that I have my own source of income. It certainly can't make me a worse photographer.
Other than playing with the camera, which is about all I want to do, it was an up-and-down weekend. We had dinner Saturday night with bloggers, and I found a way to hang out at Capital City Brewing Co. without coming home lit. See, bloggers (with the exception of certain waterfowl-obsessed wanna-be photographers) are good storytellers telling good stories, and to keep from laughing so hard that I sprayed beer out of my nose, I had to take small sips. Ergo, I drank slowly, ergo, no hangover.
That was the up part. On the downside, Sunday night we had to put two more of the rats to sleep. I've been trying not to dwell on it, but we've lost four in about a month. This is the down side to animals with short lifespans. Several people have suggested that I should look for a pet with a longer lifespan, like one of those parrots that lives eighty years.
I wonder what it is for an emu?
Posted by Nic at April 10, 2006 04:07 PM | TrackBack