Thursday 12/06/2025
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3_good_things_a_day1) Gorgeous weather - going to enjoy reading in the sunshine during lunchbreak
2) Delicious little piece of cake and yummy cake
3) Very early night in
dark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Gorgeous weather - going to enjoy reading in the sunshine during lunchbreak
2) Delicious little piece of cake and yummy cake
3) Very early night in
Chicks of the laughing dove
Jun. 12th, 2025 12:36 pmpilottttt posting in common_natureIt was their first day out of the nest, which they spent on a branch just opposite our window.
For more information (in Russian), see here.
Wednesday 11/06/2025
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:51 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) listening to good music
2) going for a walk during lunchbreak, seeing the sun is shining lovely, and probably going to buy myself an icecream ^^
3) hubby and I are going to the theater this evening :-)
Tuesday 10/06/2025
Jun. 10th, 2025 09:34 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Working from home, so listening to my own good music.
2) Delicious tea!
3) Very early night in today, need to catch up on some sleep after a very fun three day weekend.
Photos: Lake Charleston Butterfly Gardens
Jun. 10th, 2025 01:52 am
Monday 09/06/2025
Jun. 9th, 2025 01:04 pmlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Lazy day at home, reading a good book
2) All kinds of yummy vegetables and fruit
3) The sun has broken through the clouds, it makes such a difference
2) All kinds of yummy vegetables and fruit
3) The sun has broken through the clouds, it makes such a difference
Crown Point Vista House
Jun. 8th, 2025 01:38 pmyourlibrarian posting in common_nature
Just returned from a road trip through Oregon and part of Northern California. On leaving Portland we followed the route of a tourist trolley and started out at Crown Point Vista House. The views of the Colombia River were indeed impressive and well worth the twisty drive up to its height. The structure itself with its stone and stained glass was also interesting to see. The bathrooms on the basement level were all marbled -- not the usual for tourist stops!
Above is the overall view east. ( Read more... )
Sunday 09/06/2025
Jun. 8th, 2025 09:11 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) I’m ever do thankful for my noise-cancelling headphones now a former jazz festival has returned to the park nearby. Clearly it is no longer only jazz and the noise levels are much higher. Luckily with my headphones on, I could forget about that
2) Dinner at my parents where hopefully the “music” will not be heard indoors
Edit because of the weather ^^
3) For the first time I’m happy it’s a rainy day
3) Went to a plant/flower fair in another park and enjoyed a lovely drink in front on the manor in the sunshine
2) Dinner at my parents where hopefully the “music” will not be heard indoors
Edit because of the weather ^^
3) Went to a plant/flower fair in another park and enjoyed a lovely drink in front on the manor in the sunshine
Saturday 07/06/2025
Jun. 7th, 2025 11:36 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Long hot shower this morning
2) I already did most of my to-do-list including the clean bedlinen for tonight
3) Yummy soup for lunch
2) I already did most of my to-do-list including the clean bedlinen for tonight
3) Yummy soup for lunch
Friday 06/06/2025
Jun. 6th, 2025 10:26 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) I'm feeling better. But I'm going to hold myself to my day of prescribed rest
2) I'm hopefully gonna finish a crochet project today
3) very early night in. I want to be able to enjoy my weekend at a Nerd/sience festival...
Thursday 05/06/2025
Jun. 5th, 2025 09:37 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) I thought I just had a cold, but apparently I have the flu. So 3 days rest. Means also sleeping in while hubby brings our daughter to school,
2) lots of tea,
3) and lots of reading inbetween naps
Wednesday 04/06/2025
Jun. 4th, 2025 10:06 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Went to the market for yummy strawberries
2) Time to read
3) Delicious tea from whittards
2) Time to read
3) Delicious tea from whittards
Tuesday 03/06/2025
Jun. 3rd, 2025 11:17 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) a day at the office with all the colleagues. So lots of talking and laughing ^^
2) yum leftovers for lunch
3) a very lazy evening planned :D
Sunset between storm fronts, en route to Publix and Walgreen’s.
Jun. 1st, 2025 03:35 pmfull_metal_ox posting in common_natureTaken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.
My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)
My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)
Monday 02/06/2025
Jun. 2nd, 2025 11:20 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Reading a good book :-)
2) Mowed grass in the garden makes such a difference ^^
3) A hot chocolate :D
Photos: House Yard
Jun. 2nd, 2025 12:17 amysabetwordsmith posting in common_natureThese pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight, so the post says Monday.
( Walk with me ... )
( Walk with me ... )
Sunday 01/06/2025
Jun. 1st, 2025 09:32 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) I’m wearing a dress I love
2) Dinner at my parents’s place
3) Clean bedlinen for tonight
2) Dinner at my parents’s place
3) Clean bedlinen for tonight
Saturday 31/05/2025
May. 31st, 2025 10:41 amlhune posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) The bees visiting the flowers on my balcony are hilarious (as well as the ladybird who prefers sunning to eating the aphids I was offering it)
2) Nice warm weather
3) New batch of coffee (this time including ice coffee)
2) Nice warm weather
3) New batch of coffee (this time including ice coffee)
Friday 30/05/2025
May. 30th, 2025 08:00 amdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) Half a day working today, so able to enjoy the sunny afternoon with my daughter :-)
2) I feel like I have to start working on my crochet projects again, but I'm having too much fun devouring books from the library for the moment *grins* We'll see what I'm going to do this evening, crochet or reading, both are good ^^
3) I might work some time in the garden this afternoon
Osprey nesting
May. 29th, 2025 10:41 ampauraque posting in common_natureI got to see an Osprey sitting on its nest!
When I came back later to show my partner, we talked to another birder who said this nesting platform has been there for a long time but in past years Ospreys have only stayed for a short time and not fledged any young. This year they've stayed much longer than usual so hopes are high for a baby! The other adult was perched in a tree nearby.
Ospreys eat only fish. (The platform is above a river.) It's interesting that small birds seem to realize they're no threat, and completely ignore them. While we were there, we saw a flock of blackbirds furiously mob and chase away a Cooper's Hawk while the Ospreys calmly looked on.
When I came back later to show my partner, we talked to another birder who said this nesting platform has been there for a long time but in past years Ospreys have only stayed for a short time and not fledged any young. This year they've stayed much longer than usual so hopes are high for a baby! The other adult was perched in a tree nearby.
Ospreys eat only fish. (The platform is above a river.) It's interesting that small birds seem to realize they're no threat, and completely ignore them. While we were there, we saw a flock of blackbirds furiously mob and chase away a Cooper's Hawk while the Ospreys calmly looked on.