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I didn’t have my camera. But today, as I drove down the long driveway of my new apartment, there… at the very end of rutted and icy hell-hole of a driveway was a fat, bardable robin. I didn’t hear him or her sing over the sound of ice crunching the bottom of the Hyundai. But the dear thing alighted to an ice-covered branch. The first robin of spring.

Did a few times around the short loop today. My knee is still a little sore so I didn’t want to go nuts. Practiced mostly gliding as long as possible on one ski. Felt good about it.

Snow was nice and crunchy. The parking lot was crowded but nothing like the Bolton Valley Resort parking situation.

In the photo, just beyond that pine branch, is a little bump that I nearly always fall down on. I managed not to this time.

Much fun, hopefully I’ll head out again tomorrow.

I couldn’t figure out how to use the veo-tag embed feature. But meanwhile, here’s a short piece of video from the parade. Enjoy.

Today I saw my first blue jay of the 2007 season. I was standing outside the building in which my studio resides, watching the cottonwood seeds drift, thinking about how they look the perfect model of fairie movement and wishing I had the motivation to get a video recorder to catch that movement for reference material when the jay alighted on roof jutting out from where I stood and then alighted on the asphalt, near the edge of the grass, pecked at something in the grass, and flittered on beyond my field of view, around the corner to a tree perhaps by the mailbox and was gone. Gone for now.