Amazing Things...

[j_cheney]

...I saw while running errands this morning.

-A very pregnant mare at one of the farms up on Danforth.

-Easter Lilies on sale for 1$ each. Score!

-This collection of MD gifts at B&N.
(I have no need for any of them, but they are gorgeous. There were also tea pots and coffee cups that are apparently not available on-line. ::senseless drooling::)

-Overcast skies and damp ground, just what our firefighters need. ;o)
(My seedlings approve of the above also.)

Oh yeah....
Real live copies of Writers of the Future 24 at Books-a-Million in North OKC.
This is the first time I've ever seen copies anywhere. B&N didn't have any (nor do Target or Walmart, for that matter) but I was pleased to see that they actually exist.

Of course, my phone battery was too dead to take a picture...

Comments

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Of course, if you hadn't taken a picture of the B&N stuff, you could've taken one of the WOTF's, and then you'd have proof. As it is, well, any bird watcher will tell you that you need two independent identifications to confirm a sighting in the wild.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Someone in Detroit saw one. They're like yeti, occasionally sighted, but extremely rare.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

"Someone in Detroit saw one. They're like yeti, occasionally sighted, but extremely rare."

And there's never a confirming identifier around when you need one.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

No pictures = no evidence

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

That, alas, is the rule.

Well, except the bald eagle I saw last week. I was with my sister, and she saw it, too.

Annoyingly, when I saw a peregrine falcon some years back (perched on a lightpost in a K-mart parking lot) my mother assayed that she was unsure. Later, I showed her the picture in Audubon, including the bit about "the only falcon with feathered spurs..." and she admitted that perhaps I had been correct.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Cool ;o)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

We do birds here in a big way.