Rear Window

remember that?? well, this is not as exciting..

What does one do when one has a bad chest/head cold for (at least) a week that keeps one basically housebound?  Well (besides feeling miserable for oneself), one can look out the window and see what and who visits our “back yard”, which in this case I extend to include the land, sea. and air behind the digs.

So some come to the backyard via that river (sea), some preparing to “work”

Others to maybe do maintenance stuff

 And perhaps have a waterborne kaffe klatch.. “lets all meet at the river”

And some who are just there for fun (?)

And then there are those that live off the river’s so called “bounty”.. They're there every day regardless of the weather

And still others that maybe we don’t/can’t know what they are there for

Then there are those that sort of visit us in the air on their way to or from flight testing

And as far as the land, we continue to enjoy the drama provided by the bird feeders and its habitués.   The family of crows that have sort of adopted us are always hanging around scrounging for this and that

And, as I’ve noted before, our friend “henry” usually pays us a daily visit

Which then begins the dance..   because the crows, while tolerant to a point

Do occasionally sort of half heartedly ask it to leave. 

Most of the time the Hawk is nonchalant towards all of this, but eventually it will go seek some other place for a while. We've never seen it make a pass at any of the birds on the feeders and in fact I think they mostly prefer small slower critters like mice and moles.  Fun to watch however.

As Yogi says: "you can see a lot just by looking"

Small Food Note – this is, afterall, supposed to be a food column.. 

Blue Wind Gourmet will now be occupying the old “Tides” building, and will be called “Elements Eatery and Mixology” slated to open in March.  The rumored destination of the old “Chef’s” place in San Souci fell victim of the legalese.  “Sources” indicate to me that there may be another shoe to drop in the Blue Wind evolution.  It will probably come out publicly soon via other sources, so to protect mine, I’ll let them be first..

just don't forget to 
DFD