No photo of the thermal-riding vultures, circling, circling (catchy title, however—heh). Instead: frost in the field.

Almost always a lane closed on the Big Bridge. Yay for infrastructure maintenance.

Rabbit wondering at roadside.

Sugar in towers. [Do you think of Ohio as a sugar producer? Nope? You aren’t alone, I’m certain. (Beets not cane (duh).)]

I hope you’ve enjoyed this exercise in prepositions. Overkill, in all likelihood….

Lookee there: warm enough for a sleeveless top! Got up to 82°F on the porch, combo of solar gain and wood stove….

Lookee there: sandhill in the orchard!

Lookee there: high, high, high water! Bad for the shoreline!

Lookee there: “I wanna crawl!” “And doncha love my hat!”

Ya gotta know that if we go to the BotGarden, we check out the Frog Baby and look for frogs in the pool. Yes, they’re back from winter break; there’s one eyeing a statue frog!

And we check out the Goddess. Still waiting for new plant-plugs. This poor fellow is working against the spring waterfall of plant detritus threatening to clog her pools. Keeps him employed!

Totally different pond/pool, and different story. Shape and color variation is pure eye-candy. Plant eye-candy, that is.

Okay; floral fun. I don’t know what this is, but I call it super-chive.

Brings a different meaning to the phrase “bird-watching.” [Bird spotted by the Guru.]

We’ve had baseball’s opening day, now we’re awaiting opening day for the revised, revamped, and rebuilt-from-the-ground-up BeltLine Kroger. Must be nearing as the signage is up!

Down in the pool in O4W park, the fake geyser was off and the turtles had made the nozzle and it rock island their own. Good sign the pool has turtles! Means there’s sufficient turtle food, no?

Today’s flower-foto…wisteria.

We had all manner of fun today, including a w-a-a-a-y outside-the-perimeter adventure. In which we saw…

…a mirror ball reflecting.

And cats waiting. [For feeding time, of course.]

And a chimney smoking. The kind to start the Kingsford* charcoal.

* The Ford part of Kingsford is from Henry…a side business of his.

Went to the park; the Guru flew Droney. View is to the north. Focus in on the flood-control pond in the center….

Off to the left of the pond, behind a curve of wall, is an sheltered area with sculpted granite…seats. Here’s an artistic shot of an artistic rock. But not soft…only hard seating.

Off on the right, behind trees, is this rock. I think the carapace’s distinctive coloring is really an algal coating. Certainly looks like there’s plenty floating in the pond-water.

And that’s today’s report on Historic Fourth Ward Park.

What a difference a day makes! Loving the sun all day! First appearance since arriving….

Even the birds were celebrating the glorious light….

Proof the light lasted to sunset….

Stone Chinese dragon.

Real Mexican dragon (really: axolotl).

Today the most frequent wildlife species we saw were bald eagles and magpies. Both have contrasting coloration. The eagles were all solos, except a pair circling each other (squabbling?).

I have no photos of the eagles, but one was sitting on a fencepost, several were sitting in trees, and one was flying right at me upslope from below. And not far away. Stunning. I’m guessing they’re congregating in the valleys for the winter…where we drove much of the day.

We saw many rimed trees…evergreens in the first shot, and cottonwoods next. Finally, we got into some sunshine—and our world got color!

But the clouds kept getting in the way…still, the juxtaposition of Black Angus and feeding troughs/bales and irrigation pipes all on snow is a nice contrast to the shapes of the trees on the slopes above.

The atmospheric obscurity adds to this sunset shot over the Clark Fork of the Columbia River—we have crossed the continental divide. “It’s all downhill from here,” as one sage noted in a somewhat similar situation.

Sweet kitty! Even got up from the sphinx position to greet me.