random thoughts – Day 1,158 – (Friday) – nature stuff

Feather like those atop the nest.

The drainpipe birds have literally and somewhat extravagantly feathered the nest. This morning, it was crowned with what looks like quite a lot of dark colored feathers. They are significantly larger and darker than the feathers of the small brown birds seen at the nest, and fluttered in the morning breezes. I want to know where all the big feathers came from. After work, one of the feathers landed on the front steps. 

At work, the day dragged and limped along and it felt like time had stood still. When I was staring out the window for a moment around 11:00, there was some crazy crap like from a movie. The hands on the clock in the tower at City Hall were turning backward. No lie. I kind of shrieked along the lines of "holy crap time is turning backwards." It might have just felt like a shriek because there were only a few of us on site and the office was quiet. It certainly fit with the feeling of time being altered. 

I tried to video the spectacle of the clock running backward, but it is just a bit too far away and the video feature won't let me zoom. The movement of the hands barely showed up in the video and you'll have to take my work for it.

Bunny in the driveway.

This evening, a brown bunny sat in the front yard, nose twitching and sniffing the air as it paused from chewing clover or whatever delicacy it found. Usually, I see a bunny around 9:30 or 10:00 when Winston goes out, but this was much earlier, at around 8:00. The camera/phone was in the living room, and I dashed the few steps to grab it. 

At about the same time I was back to the front door and got the camera app opened, the bunny bolted through a space in the fence gate. It paused in the driveway at the other side of the fence. It sat there long enough for a couple quick photos from the porch window before it was back in motion and headed for the next-door neighbor’s yard. 

The front yard seems to be its own little world. It’s a fun little reality show.