I know, where have I been? Lately my calendar has looked more like grated Swiss cheese, rather than anything with any sense of order. Oh well, at least it can serve as a source of entropy if I need more random numbers.

The weather lately has had me guessing if I’m opening the windows to cool off the house or warm it up. This afternoon it turned into the latter, and I took advantage of that post-cold-front downslope-warmed air to get out on the lake a bit.

It must have been a good soaring day, because the large birds were up there, like this Black Vulture:

A lot of the part-timers have moved to their winter homes, but the Canada Geese are year-rounders here:

On a nice sunny day like this, the turtles were out all over the place taking advantage:

Wait! Don’t go! Dang wind drifted me too close…

I’m not sure why this Great Blue Heron was holding his beak open like this; it looks like maybe he was having an issue swallowing something.

She was able to fly away as the wind drifted me in just a little too close (again – I try to not do that):

I generally like to keep a positive note, but this was one of those times when I came back in with more litter than pictures to post.

With all of Nature out there to enjoy, why the beer (which, BTW, is prohibited by the lake rules, as is, of course, littering)? And evidently there are people who think the lake needs more water. News: it doesn’t.