November 18th, 2024

Yahoo, I'm back online!   For those of you who didn't happen to see the post of explanation, I was having some terrible computer issues for about two weeks.  It was a constant struggle to get online and then stay online.  Initially I attributed it to post hurricane gnarliness (which was I'm sure at least a part of the issue) but as time went by and it not only didn't get better but started to get worse,  I had to call in the big guns.  That is, Tim.  at that point my computer had literally locked me out.  I kept getting a message saying that my password was incorrect.  It was not incorrect.  But ok, I'll play your little game and change the password, no big deal.   And then it decided that my email was incorrect.  It is not incorrect.  Annoying and baffling, both!  The few times I was able to actually get into my computer, within a very few minutes it was default to first a pink screen, then a green screen and eventually, the white screen of death.  Oh dear.  Tim did his due diligence and the diagnosis was - terminal.  Oh dear, so sad.  And worse, so expensive. Dang.  But here I am now, back with a new computer and all is, once again, well with my world.

I had a number of ideas for blogposts while I was on a forced blog vacation but I thought for my first one after a bit, I ought to do the Photo Safari Post because it was almost two weeks ago now and I'm beginning to forget!   Soo very quickly, while I still have two active braincells, here we go with the Gloomy Day Hike.

It was indeed a very gloomy day,  so grey and dank in fact, that a few times we got sprinkled but not full on rain so we kept going.  We are intrepid like that.   I had to add light to nearly every photo so just fyi, every single picture I'll post here has been edited but mostly just to lighten them a bit.

As is not unusual on such a weather weird day, mostly what we saw was birds.  Birds don't much care about the weather.  They live outside so I guess for them it's just another day.  Thank goodness for us or we'd have no photos whatsoever!

I'll do a few smallish groups so you aren't overwhelmed by long slideshows.  Here is the first group.  The most unusual is the large group of vultures which by the way, is called a Committee.  I can see why!
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Second group.  Those roseate spoonbills are just the bees knees, especially on a grey day:

Last batch of birds:

Ready for a change of pace?  How about a few botannicals?

And then perhaps a few random things that don't really fit into any other category:

And then my favourite shot of the entire day, mostly because it's unique, something I've never captured before.................The County Sheriff's airboat in action!

I guess that about does it.   It's possible that I forgot something but, oh well.  Meanwhile, I hope, for the first time in two weeks, you enjoyed the Gloomy Day Hike Photo Safari Report!

I promise, the next post will NOT be of a hike (though there will be more of those to come - I promise that too)

Hope everyone is doing great!  hugs all 'round  from Joy and I
(Joy on the left, my hand on the right )