Downy Woodpecker
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We took a little walk yesterday morning and I brought along the venerable Olympus OM-D E-M5, with the 75-300mm zoom mounted, hoping to see a bird or two.
We were nearly home, without seeing a bird that would sit still long enough for a shot, when I heard a woodpecker nearby. It took me a couple of minutes to finally locate it, somewhat shaded as it was beneath the limb it was working.
So it wasn't all in vain.
We visited with our Florida friends who are building a cabin near Penn Yan. There's been some significant progress since our last visit, but it's still very much a work in progress. But the visit had a salutary effect on my mental health as we learned, perhaps not for the first time, that their floor plan is nearly identical to the one we're working on. I was waking up in the middle of the night worrying about whether or not everything we'd planned would work in that footprint, and being able to be in a space nearly identical in size (our ceiling will be a little lower at the peak, but higher at the walls) gave me a great deal of confidence that it will all work.
Our contractor should be here in a little while to go over the latest draft with us, and we have some specific changes we want to go over and verify their feasibility. Then we'll all meet with the designer on Monday afternoon and give her our feedback. I think we should be very close to having a workable blueprint when we receive her next draft.
It was warm yesterday, but breezy as a cold front blew through. It's cooler today, and partly cloudy, but nothing to really complain about.
Life, in this little corner of the world at least, is good.
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