End of September

Pohley's Market here in the old-town part of Windsor has a new mural on the side of the building.  The artist is James Molina (no relation to Benjie or Yadier, he says).  Anyway, it's a great work stretching along the whole west side of the store.  I took some pictures of it the other day and stitched them together.  Couldn't get the whole length of it without making the picture too long for this blog so I settled for about three quarters of it.  If you're in the area, take a look at the real thing.  The photo below is small, but you can get the idea.  The dark rectangles are windows of the building:

 

 

Dickie and I made a trip to Shollenberger Park last week.  The wetlands lake was almost dry but we found quite a few egrets, ducks, stilts, sandpipers and several swans in the water treatment ponds just south Shollenberger.  Here's proof.  You can emlarge the photo by clicking on it:

 

 

 

The swans were in a fighting mood.  Here's one chasing the other away from his mate.  The guy in front was taking a pretty good beating:

 

 

 

I've always been partial to stilts.  They and their cousins, the avocets, are some of the prettiest of waterfowl.  I caught this guy high-stepping through the muck:

 

 

 

 

The bird below is a snowy egret.  There were quite a few of them around.  Some visitor we met at Shollenberger told us there were millions of them at the ponds, but we found that to be a gross exaggeration.  Still, there were more than a few:

 

 

 

It's fall now and the leaves are turning.  It's always a pretty sight.  I got this shot below on our morning walk yesterday:

 

 

 

That's about it for now.  See you next time!