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| Sun on the City |
Well, that was fun. Hearing the sound of light rain against our bedroom windows last night and this morning. Knowing the garden plants are imbibing their first real drink of the season, courtesy of Mother Nature's Sky Water Saloon. Enjoying a rare Monday morning breakfast with my wife, who's off today.
As soon as the rain had passed, I took a stroll over to Grandview Park to catch the view, soak in the atmosphere, and breathe in the air -- freshly cleansed of an orange-brown haze of smog that had settled in lately.
Walking home, I spotted a Townsend's warbler glowing yellow against the green branches of a long-needled pine next to someone's house. I kept my camera trained on the tree, waiting for the bird to show itself again. Footsteps approached along the sidewalk, but I kept my eye glued to the viewfinder. Probably someone walking their dog. The warbler finally showed itself but flew away before I could zero in, flying right over the head of the sidewalk person, who turned out to be my wife.
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| Scudding Clouds |
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| Clearing from the Southwest |
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| Yep, the Farallon Islands are still visible.... The surf still looked pretty good at Ocean Beach, but I didn't see any surfers out yet. I was sorry to have missed the action yesterday, which saw the first large, clean swell of the season. |
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| Once the sun came out, a lone white-crowned sparrow soaked in the warmth and tweeted unanswered companion-calls from the top of this coyote brush. |
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| We first saw these two from the other side, making them strongly backlit by the sun. I wondered if it was a hawk and raven, but soon realized it was a pair of red-shouldered hawks. (I can see this street lamp from our living room window, and they have since moved on.) |
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| This one seemed to be waiting patiently for its partner to dry out. |
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| Ordinarily there would be a fair amount of birds calling in this general area, but it was quiet as a tomb while these two perched so brazenly out in the open. |
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