Thick o' fog (again)

[jhetley]

Visibility about 100' when I went out for the morning newspaper. Guess we found the dewpoint last night. Temperature in the mid 30s F, with wet frost on the cars. And a dozen or so goldfinches fighting over the 8 perches (only 6 with access to seeds) on the thistle feeder. One nonchalant nonconformist goldfinch sat on the sunflower feeder, crunching on the big seeds and cheering on the scrum a foot or so away...

Don't know if the fancy-dancy "bridge walk" downstream will have visible river for the governor's speech and pipe-band serenade -- new bridge across the narrows just before the bay, cable-stayed suspension bridge replacing one built 75 years ago and threatening to drop into the river under a heavy truck. That section of the river is known for fog -- we'd lived here a couple of years before we actually saw water when driving across.

May do an interim lawn-rake this afternoon. Lots more leaves still waiting their turn to drift down in the sun.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

One nonchalant nonconformist goldfinch

There are times in a writer's life when a double adjective is a necessity.

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[quilzas.livejournal.com]

Why does everyone seem obsessed with raking up leaves?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, if you rake them all into a big pile, you can jump into them...

(Also, if you leave them on the driveway, they'll clog up the snowblower in, oh, another three or four weeks.)