HAPPY EARTH DAY! Wikipedia has a cool write-up on the Earth and since today is Earth Day - I think we can all spend a few minutes today learning, or re-learning, neat things about the Earth. Life has been on Earth for billions of years but human civilization has been around for only a few thousand. That's like the blink of an eye!
Well I finally got a picture of a Mallard Duck. My neighborhood just north of Buffalo, NY has Mallards all over the place. They are even protected by town law if I'm not mistaken. They like to walk around right in the road sometimes, even with their little chicks following close behind.
This is a male, and he's just about to take off. The lady a few houses down feeds all the animals who visit her yard, ducks, rabbits, squirrels, etc. Sometimes her house looks like a duck airport, there are so many taking off or landing at any one time.
On a recent family visit I took some pictures of some neat wooden carvings my Uncle has. Here's a birdhouse hanging in a tree. The "front door" is the heart. I'll bet those are some spoiled-ass birds. Look at the wood trim on their house!!
Here's a wood carving of a very worried man, made from a bamboo root. His hair looks like the root fibers. Bamboo is a very renewable resource from what I've heard.
Here's a bird. This one you don't have to feed.
Here's an alleged Blue Heron. He or she is right out there on the Niagara River, scoping out some fish maybe? You can see the GI bridge there in the background. In the immediate area there seemed to be a ton of minnows and other fish swimming around.
Here's a picture of the GI bridge again. I figured since I had to pay a $1 toll to get over that bridge, I might as well have a picture of it.
That day we had a little cookout with Filet Mignon and chicken on the grill. It was delicious. It was grilled on a Weber grill. Those things rock. Later in the evening as the sun was setting, we say some way-cool storm clouds roll in.
There was a heck of a rain shower that rolled in after the clouds darkened up the sky. There's the GI bridge again in the background - hey, it cost be a whole dollar, like I said earlier, and I need to justify the expense. 
compete with it's own squirrel-stopper.
