"The Sky is Falling!!!"

Last week at this time, we were 60° colder. Instead of the high of 78° like Tuesday afternoon, it was a balmy 18°!! I've been going out each morning to soak up the rays. Just about everything that remained in the ground during the arctic snap has turned brown and along the pond banks, kinda brackish, but still, I think it's pretty, as you can see the fallen tree in the pond with water reflections and leaves that changed color almost overnight.  Very little green can be found anywhere this year.  But the sky has been glorious; the clouds beautiful.  By the way, did you know that the most common of clouds [Cumulus]...on the average, weighs 1.1 million pounds.  Read about it here.  And you may ask, why don't they fall to the ground weighing  in at 5 tons?  Why?  'Cause the air BENEATH the clouds is heavier.

...and I listen to the birdsong of the beautiful Red Winged Blackbirds.  I'm slowly getting the yellow headed backbird images resized and will share them on my bird photo blog this coming Saturday. By the comments on my recent post on Monday,of which this post is more or less a continuation of the earlier post, a few have either never heard of them, or have never seen one---stay tuned.