But Baby it’s cold outside.
We had a cool change of weather come in late yeasterday afternoon. I doubt I’ll see more than this of the ducklings until it warms up around mid-day.
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On a recent family visit our neice “discovered” Albert. Thankfully, both were well behaved.
Hi keres.
That’s about the cutest picture I’ve seen in a long time.
was deciding to re-think this whole hang around with humans thing.
LOL, it looks more like a face off. And Albert has a great “face”. It looks like he’s thinking, “damn, I wish I still had my teeth”.
He’s probably thinking, “I’ll gum her arm off if she comes any closer.”
Albert, for all that he is a curmugeon, never bites or scratches. I think it’s because he really has no fear – even of things he should be afraid of.
Rather, he has strong likes and dislikes, and acts accordingly. Here, he was preparing to dislike children a lot, and leave. Fortunately his antisipated extreme dislike of our niece was unfounded, as she ultimately left him be.
Pacha still isn’t eating solid foods, but that doesn’t stop her from join the others lined up at the fence for their mid-morning rations.
A virtual freshly picked summer lettuce for all of you northern hemisphere types. Yes, we are eating lots of salad, as are the alpacas.
i lik duks¡…peasantz een btr¡¡¡
gud nuz 2…
blizzard:
gotz storie hear, n lotsa pix hear
n judi gotz props 4 help out 2
kewl¡
gott to go…dadaz cumin
Hi Bu.
Luna thinks ducks are fun to chase. Ducks think luna is a big pest.
Yay for Blizzard and Judi.
than snuggling up to the heat of a wood stove.
and I heartily agree … 🙂
I was really tempted to join them — except for the fact that the dog beds are more dog hair than bed.
and it looks like they left you some room too … 🙂
the dog beds are more dog hair than bed
Ah yes, I remember that one. Luna doesn’t have a bed, unless you count the hand-made Tibetian rug and the couch at night.
When I had three Pyrs, and at least twice as many dog beds, I used to take the covers to the laundromat to fluff their machinery instead of mine. Still, after a year-or-so of use there was no hope of ever getting them really clean.
Good thing Luna likes sleeping on the ice plant (not from the ice plant’s point of view, though, it’s a bit scraggly as a result).
I had to go google ‘ice plant’ — I’d never heard of it before. Didn’t look especially comfortable.
If you’ve ever been to California, ice plant is that stuff with the pink, purple, orange, or yellow flowers holding all the hillsides in place. I grew up with it on the slopes between ours and the neighbours’ yards. It’s classed as a succulent ground cover, and is fairly slimmy to slide through – as I remember from the occassions our touch-football games went out of bounds.
Here, where it grows naturally, it’s called pig face. Apparently someone thought the leaf arrangement looked like a snout and two ears. It tends to form low-lying mounds and Luna sleeps in the middle of the the mound. I suppose it’s a bit springy.
“hearth-ily”?
Hi Keres, I know it’s been a while since I regularly read Booman, but I seem to recall that you had an expectant alpaca. How did the birth go?
Hi Puget, the alpaca on the left in the above photo is Pacha, born the day after Thanksgiving.
Here are the just born photos, and here’s the link to the diary I put up the day after she was born.
She had to have umbilical hernia fixed, but otherwise had been doing great.
Oh Keres!! Thank you so much for sending the links! What wonderful photos and such a beautiful baby. I’m sure everyone is very proud and thrilled.
I know you’ve told me before but I’m still fretting over getting a new camera. Tales of woe here. I think you said you had a Nikon D70, but I’ve discovered the critical bit is what lens/lenses do you have?
Thanks again for reposting.
I do have the D70, and it came with a 18-70mm 1:3.5-4.5 and a 70-300mm 1:4-5.6 lense. I think Olivia’s decision to exchange her wide-medium to a 17-70mm was a good choice, as my close-up are nowhere as crisp as her’s. I suspect it has to do with the minimum focal lenght on the 18-70 being .38 meters (about 15 inches), which doesn’t allow you to get extremely close to your subject.
I like my 70-300mm a lot. It loses a fair bit of light at the 300mm end of the zoom, but upping the ISO compensates fairly well without too much “granulation” of the image.
If you need someone to decode all the numbers, explain focal length or f-stop, just ask me.
Thanks Keres. I do need help understanding all that. I used to do a lot of photography, even darkroom stuff playing with filters and exposures and developing. But darn if I can remember details from back 13-14 years ago.
I don’t know if you saw my list of “criteria” for a new camera back at the end of December. My tales of woe are on my blog. So I’m still up in the air.
Maybe I should just go for a good point & shoot and be happy with it. But I really NEED exquisite focus, macro and distance.
Thanks in advance
anecdote:
So I decide to have a blog even prior to owning a cell phone or an Ipod.
So I have to post some kind of image.
So I look in my image library at work. (Home computer crashed last year, and I couldn’t recover images)Ok, that close-up of a friend’s dog ear. Site asks me to crop. I crop.
Send news of blog to others, they congratulate me on my sow’s ear/silk purse image.
In “reality” it is the ear of a chihuahua mix. Not even my own chihuahua mix.
http://missdevore.wordpress.com/
Am I pimping or whoring if I refer to my blog?
You decide.
As soon as I can figure out how to create “cat/dog-egories, there will be one for “Secular Caninism”
Oh and I rescued a bunny from a parking lot last year (since adopted), and I “have” a feral cat named Hank.
In case you question my other critter credentials.