How about

 

 

Are you looking at me?

 

I SAID ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME???

 

 

 

Oh Yeah???

 

 

 

Just because

 

 

 

Pride of Barbados.  (Right here in the Valley.)

 

Whistling Ducks

 

 

Some whistling ducks are conspicuous; like this Black-bellied Whistling Duck.

 

Hard to miss.

 

Slightly more elusive are the Fulvous Whistling Ducks, but I was lucky enough to spot a small flock of them passing a quiet afternoon amongst an assortment of other birds on the bank of a pond.

 

 

 

 

 

Nature

 

 

It can be so messy!

 

 

My laptop

 

 

…has wings.

 

We mean to travel in the van this summer and I want to be able to work comfortably when we’re on the road.  When I’m working, I have multiple files open at the same time, one or more usually providing information for the one I’m working on.  That single laptop screen just doesn’t get it.  This winged-screen attachment feels like a winner.  I’ve been test-driving it on the dining room table.  I’ll try pairing that with a real keyboard that has a number keypad and that could do it.

 

Progress report

 

 

Los tres amigos.

 

The Firebush

 

The Lantana

 

And the Esperanza.

 

All recovering nicely from their winter stress.