Kingfisher

In the Late Afternoon, after errands in the Village, I paddled out to Bobcat Meadow...had sighted Does and Fawns from the return Shuttle, but no luck...thought to go across Chapel Bridge and sit awhile on the Shingle downriver thereabout...waitedwaited...quiet...left off, and when I reached the Bridge, heard Pileated by the Deer House, and Kingfisher upriver...chose Kingfisher!...and sighted Kingfisher above the L Snag...took pics and clips a long while...the Terrific Light perfect, and Kingfisher's posing too, but Kingfisher still too far away for that knockdown pic!...Kingfisher flew to another perch, Half Dome in background...pic....followed Tree to Tree a few more times, and finally left off to go sit at Owl Log awhile....looked for Pileated along the way out Lodgepole Point...one more call thereabout...Ouzels, Acorns, and Flicker about...and Raven....Woods quiet...sunny bluebluehazy, warm...big Ring about the Moon last Night...friends making plans for Moonlight Ice Skating on Tenaya Lake...Kinglets about in the Village...days old reports of Bear with white markings on Chest...one by the Rocky Slope Climbing Wall, the other at Church Bowl...spent much time of late getting another video game up and running...SWOR, which is very much a copy cat of WOW...SWOR dvd installation discs wouldn't install...if one is having this problem, and computer set up like mine, windows seven, what I did might work: choose custom, put game in game folder, startup icons on desktop, and go to firewall settings, and browse the dvd disc for the swor installation program, open, and it should add to the checked list of programs the firewall is letting through....this, the firewall, seems to be the problem..support for swor sends out email with a shotgun approach, which is a chuckle, but it cued me to the firewall as the possible trouble, which specifically was the third installation disc not working....even still, one must be careful to let discs after being loaded, to completely load and quiet down, before clicking the 'retry' window, which starts everything going again....it can be annoying to watch the green load bar pulsing, and nothing going on!!....game looks to be much fun, but has a kind of industrial feel, which makes me prefer wow, artistically speaking!!...the games are a new 'art', though now for the most part the interest is the fun of playing them...but somewhere out there, there are Delacroix and Picasso and van Gough pursing their lips...to say nothing of William Blake!

Here's a bit at wiki on Tour Skating....part of the gear is ice claws to pull oneself out of holes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_skating

and a youTube...very cool...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RbOBrte0vU

and Nordic Skating clip (site has blades...)
http://www.nordicskater.com/ice/index.html