Springtime, Kitchen, Squirrels, and Crows
Ah Spring... Time to re-organize the kitchen. In the picture above, you can see the island we built, and Mrs. CapeCodAlan's new pottery collection sits happily beneath a "family heirloom timepiece". (My folks originally bought the kitchen clock back in the '50s... It died back in the '70s, and out of sentimentality I saved it from the landfill. Eventually quartz technology and double-A batteries made a re-hab simple, and the quaint result will probably stay with us the rest of our natural years.)
Anyway, Springtime re-arranging is afoot, and that meant that old crackers and nuts found their way out to the crow feeder. Forever the opportunist, "Don" the squirrel tried to stake claim, but that didn't last long. Crows being selfish brutes, Don was chased away pronto.
Ah yes, the ever graceful crows....After all this time photographing them, they're still elusive subjects. It took an hour to get the photo below, and that pic certainly ain't nothing to brag about. (OK, so I wasn't standing by the window every second... Still, crows have an unnerving ability to be where you aren't, at least when you don't want to be there.)
And so it goes... Singers and poets have called it the "Circle Game". How appropriate...
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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