Hopefully everyone is staying nice and warm with all these winter storms that are going around! Our area only received a few inches of snow this week, but we’re excited that one of our favorite ski resorts, Snowshoe in WV, has a good foot or so of new snow. This is the condo where we stay, looking all cozy and magical in a snow storm.
Hey look! It’s Marty, also known as Martypants and sometimes Mr. Pants. He’s still pretty timid, but his mumbly little vocabulary is growing. He imitates us daily and his favorite thing to repeat is, “good boy!” He also makes a knock-knock-knock noise that makes me laugh. He will still only step up onto my hand while in the cage – he doesn’t seem to want to come out like all of my other birds did even though I’ve promised that we won’t eat him. He has been out several times and is getting to know the layout of our house, but he just seems to prefer his own little house right now. Hopefully he’ll eventually come out of the cage to play and explore on a more regular basis, but until then we’re enjoying his company (from behind bars) and we love listening to his cute mimicry.
Another week just went by where I didn’t pick up my camera even once. I blame all the studying! (I passed my two certification exams, but now I’m onto the next one which means more studying.) So on that note, I’m posting an image from Tortola because I’m dreaming of warmer weather and beachy scenes with little seagulls in the sand. And it’s worth noting that no Photoshop was used to boost the colors in this image. That was the real color of the water!
Well, I managed to take a total of zero photos this week. I spent all of my free time the past several days studying for a certification exam (that I’m taking today!), so I’m posting a old photo again. AND…it’s not even a photo I took. It’s a photo of me sitting at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado circa 1980. I love that it sort of looks like I have something deep on my mind, like I’m contemplating the world from on top of the world. Maybe I was coming up with a list of all the places I’d love to see one day!
This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago during our visit to Colorado. It’s a string of lights found in the New Belgium Brewery, and they’re made from beer can tops! Clever and super festive, no?
