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<\/p>\nSometimes all the “news” is dire but there are still minor joys.<\/p>\n
Like getting the Yellow-billed Cuckoo’s call caught on the Bird Sounds App “Merlin” where it agreed with me that it was, indeed, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’m still bemused by Merlin’s assertion that a cicada\/grasshopper like noise at midday on a sunny day was a Barn Owl.\u00a0 We should have Barn Owls, yes, but I’ve never seen or heard one (they screech\/scream, supposedly) but they’re listed as in this area year ’round.\u00a0\u00a0 The insect-like sound was the only sound right then.<\/p>\n
I’ve been wasting time on some doodles.\u00a0 This round of doodles was inspired by another fit of “filling in a smallish defined space with different patterns (often but not always leaves) and by the rediscovery of a set of colored pencils, with which to color said patterns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I took photos of two of them (some are so small I can’t)\u00a0 and neither the designs nor the photographs approach great art, but they’re fun to do and they relax my brain and hand.\u00a0 I may do just a few lines or one colored section and then come back later.\u00a0 Both of these were drawn on old card stock–one on the back of someone else’s business card (the little square) and one on the back of a 3 x 5 card.\u00a0\u00a0 Others are more scribbly–not shown here, but derived from trying to get a dried u ballpoint to write (it finally did, a little, and to me the scribbles looked some a patch of trees.<\/p>\n
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