blackwater national wildlife refuge

life is sure super busy for me these days! i haven't been able to use my mac in the rabbits' room for several weeks now since i was always do-do-do-do-ing things. fridays are usually my free day so i tend to spend several hours on my mac but the past three fridays, i had plans so i wasn't able to blog. weekends are always bad since i always spend them with my sweet petey doing fun and not-so-fun things (house chores, etc.). today is the exception...peter's working on upgrading his '73 BMW R75/5 getting it ready for a trip this summer.

anyway, three fridays ago, i went to blackwater national wildlife refuge with ken, a deaf friend of mine who lives about 30 minutes north of where i live. we really enjoyed ourselves! we went for a drive on the wildlife drive and we pulled over quite many times to check out the animals. we saw ospreys, bald eagles, delmarva squirrel, pelicans, geese and carps. i'd love to visit this place again soon!

photo credit: ken samson
(he used my camera several times...hope he had fun using it!)

delmarva squirrel

osprey!!!
photo credit: ken samson

bald eagle
too bad i don't have a 800mm lens for my camera!
it's about $12K for one...i don't think so...at least not right now, ha ha!

osprey cam
you can find it at:
http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm.html

would you believe that we saw this bald eagle this close?!?
nah, we stopped by the visitor's center and saw this stuffed eagle.
it was really huge!!

inside the visitor's center, they have two tv monitors...
for osprey cam and eagle cam, a live feed for each!!
i wish it was like that on the internet, oh well.

osprey cam

a new quote

it's time for a new quote for my blog!

i saw this quote in "my life in france" by julia child and i LOVE it!! it was thérèse asche, a close friend of julia who said it:

"Une maison sans chat, c'est la vie sans soleil!"

in english:

"a house without a cat is like life without sunshine!"

this is true for me!!