Pink Sunset

Just a couple pics from last couple days. Sunset last night.

 

And some from Friday.

2016, We’re Counting on You

I gave up making New Year’s resolutions years ago. Generally, it seems a week into the new year most are already forgotten. It’s not that I don’t have goals, but sometimes the resolutions I’ve made were not all that intrinsic to my interests or that important in the long term. Lose weight? Sure. Exercise more? Sure. Who doesn’t want to do those things?

Who sticks with any of that past January? Hmm? Raise your hand. Yeah, that’s what I thought. (Ok you, in the back: pipe down. You’re an anomaly)

Still, for the first time in years, I actually have three things I am resolved on for the coming year:

1. Read more. I signed up for the Goodreads reading challenge thingie last year, and hilariously said I was going to try to read 3o books in 2015. Counting a re-read of “Sense and Sensibility” I appear to have read seven. That’s pathetic. I stand here before you to confess my shame. I really need to make more of an effort.
2. Write more. Gotta get on the stick there and finish the first draft of  “Revenants Within,”  sequel to “Revenants Abroad.” I also have several other projects half-begun so I need to get with it.
3. Spend less time on Twitter and get back to posting more regularly here on the blog. Maybe even get my other website, ddsyrdal.com back up and functional. I still own the domain name, but let the site slide.

Best wishes to everyone for a healthy, happy, prosperous new year!

Here are a few recent photos:

Moon Dec 23

female mallard

American Wigeon

Black & White

Hooded merganser

Great blue heron

Hooded merganser

Punk duck

November Collection

I can’t believe it’s been a whole month since I posted anything.

I threw in the towel on NaNoWriMo again. I’ve been sick for a week and it sort of took the wind out of my sails. I’m about 10,000 words into a new thing, my first attempt at a YA novel. But fear not, the vampires are never far from my mind and plan to get back to them ASAP because I miss my fanged friends.

Here are a few shots from this month, and I still have more to process and upload.

The black speck by the tree is an eagle

Geese from below 11-15-15

11-15-15

Leaves of gold 11-15-15

Lots of geese 11-15-15

Sunrise 11-16-15

Puffy cloud 11-9-15

Japanese maple 11-6-15

11-06-15 Fog Sun Trees

11-6-15 backlit leaves

11-05-15 oak tree

11-04-15 maples and oak

11-04-15 foggy sunrise

11-04-15 foggy pond at sunrise

11-04-15 fog in the preserve

11-03-15 walnut tree at sunrise

11-03-15 gold in the fog

11-02-15 morning moon

Sunrise Colors

Breaktaking colors this morning, and a shot of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the eastern sky just before daybreak. Venus is the top, brightest one, then little Mars, and Jupiter.

Hood, geese, river of gold

sunrise colors

sunrise

Sunrise colors with shadow from Mt Hood

Venus, Mars, & Jupiter

 

 

Rainbows and Autumn Sun

I failed to bring my camera with me for a couple of days, and missed probably the most amazing rainbow I’d ever seen. It was bright, wide, and straight ahead of me. Let us hope I have learned my lesson, to wit: Just because it’s raining in the morning doesn’t mean the clouds won’t part and pose for pictures in the afternoon. Grrr. Missed an amazing sunset yesterday too, just as I was driving out of work. And you know the colors last mere minutes.

So, I grabbed the camera this morning, despite the dire weather predictions, and was rewarded with this sight:

and then this:

and then this:

I just liked the way the sun was hitting this tree. I love the low angle of the sun in the later part of the year.

Maple with geese in sun

Missed more than I got, as usual. Oh well. Within twenty minutes the sun was gone, and it was pouring rain again.

Happy Friday Eve!