Owl

Early part of the Day taken up with trying to trim the cameraphone bill...trimmed texting, and tethering, and tried to trim the homephone too, and by some quirk of things got added service there and lower price, though now 'am locked into a contract for a year, and two years on cameraphone...and it is all very confusing, and long waits on hold, and it all reminds me of buying a car...one hears 'you need this and this and this..' and one capitulates because one needs the car!!...one of the problems with the cameraphones is they are small computers, and one is familiar with all the things computers do that a one fee Internet connection provides, though one needs a phone to have the connect, unless using wi fi places, which I'm tempted to do, but all my web efforts, and computers, are tethered to the home phone, so, so...one needs phones!!...anyway, paddled out in the evening to Two Top Pine Meadow, sat awhile by the Merced at the Slough, and soaked my toes, and proceeded with the mundane maintenance of toe nail clipping...I've often done this on trails when boots and toenails are in conflict, and it's become a kinda ritual routine...mundane ritual maintenance of one sort of another gobbles up a lot of time...thereabout on the Sand: Mallard floatby, clip, Flicker, Blue Birds calling, DownyOrHairy Woodpecker, Ravens...quiet...paddled back to Owl Woods, and Providence smiled...Owl pics and clip--Owl's ritual flight preparation...trimmed take-off from clip...like old times, I thought, hearing, then sighting Owl, and good fortune....sunny blueblue warm...

Local Flora here:  http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_consort.pl (web catalog of Valley Museum's collection)

I imagine somehwhere there is a Local Fauna collection...