I went for a walk over by the river this afternoon, hoping to get some nice foliage pictures. I stopped at a favorite spot, and there was a whole family of swans just across the water from me!



I snapped a bunch of photos, and then I noticed a great blue heron a little farther down. Score! I usually scare him away. I took a short video of him stalking along the riverbank, and after much tinkering finally figured out how to upload the darn thing to YouTube.



You can hear a chipmunk yelling at me in the background. *g*

It turned out to be quite the lovely day, after a frost this morning. Yep, it's October all right.

My paid account here expires tomorrow, and I don't think I'll renew it. I have better things to spend my money on at the moment, like food and bills. I'll have to download all my icons so I don't lose them (again). It's not like I was really using all the features, anyway. I do hope I can figure out how to post from Flickr again, though, because that is just darned annoying.

Amazingly, it wasn't raining when I went to lunch this afternoon. In fact, the sun poked through the clouds a couple of times for a minute or two, and is now happily shining away. So much for the forecast. Not that I'm complaining!

So I decided to risk walking down to the park, despite dire predictions of thunderstorms. I peeked over the fencing at the nest, as Mr Prissy was on the other side of the pond, harassing the geese.

( Guess what I saw? )

I wandered around the pond, and as I came around the corner, I spied ( another wonder: )

Oh, and on the way to work this morning, I saw a bald eagle flying over the bridge! So it was an awesome bird-spotting day. :)