Life with cats, and other things…
Friday rush hour outside Albany (9th Oct). (Really not very big, actually) New computer in hand, we made tracks for home hoping to avoid the ever lengthening queue of traffic on the thruway. Once again, we exited just in time to avoid that debacle which was a problem if you were heading for Saratoga Springs. … Continue reading Return from the big city
06:48 9th October 2026 On any given day, I'll find a hundred photos to take. But when the subject is dynamic, changing dramatically every moment, the camera goes into overdrive. . It is very dark when we rise these days and it's fun to watch the window at breakfast to see what sort of start … Continue reading Another false alarm
A rainy day was supposed to see me start to catch up but I suppose the battle of the passwords had to be fought. Sorting out the Cloud password caused an upset on my iPhone and getting that resolved put the tablet in a snit.... But, as I said, there is a good feature here, … Continue reading Features
07:07 26th September 2026 On a wet weekend there wasn't much to photograph but the stormy sky. We are far enough inland that we didn't get any severe weather warnings and although it rained a good deal, it was never very heavy. The wind chimes rang a symphony for most of the weekend but we … Continue reading Not all grey
At the end of our road, where we turn to go out to the state route, there is a straggly stand of trees behind the remains of an old stone wall. Goldfinches may often be seen flitting about and sometimes there is a heron in the nearby pond. Deer and wild turkeys occasionally wander this … Continue reading A serious talk
22nd September 2026 Going to the Post Office. It is astonishing how suddenly Fall sets in around here. A week ago I was hard put to find evidence of it, bar a scattering of trees that seemingly couldn't wait to get started. But in the past few days Fall seems to have got a kick … Continue reading Further evidence…
19th September 2026 As we returned from Burlington, the sky began to cloud over and the light changed. . Usually, the return journey is the less interesting, but this day was the opposite. In the above area, hundreds of plastic-covered hay bales dotted the fields. . In the changing light, I saw that the countryside … Continue reading Sabotage
19th September 2026 A really good deal on an almost-new bicycle saw us on the road last Saturday, for a 2.5 hour drive to Burlington, Vermont. It was a new destination for us, although it was just a short extension of the journey we became familiar with last year in our frustrating attempts to see … Continue reading Empty nest
18th September 2026 This will seem mad, but sleeping for two consecutive nights uninterrupted, even by a dream, has got me discombobulated. I'd adjusted to being woken two or three times, administering Willow's twice-daily medicine at 3 am and taking my own thyroid medication at that hour, having so belatedly discovered that middle-of-the-night is the … Continue reading Inconvenience
06:58 15th September 2026 While I miss the lovely long evenings of Summer, it is nice to be able to watch the dawn again without having to get up at an indecently early hour. Daybreak often brings a nice surprise that has me abandon breakfast to run outside. . 07:01 16th September 2026 That is … Continue reading Making a date