Medium Dawn Felagund of the Fountain

And now for something completely different ...

Pic Spam!!!

Following are the pictures we've taken over the past month or so. They're on all topics, organized under various LJ cuts. There's about fifty of them, so dial-up beware.

Before we really got underway with packing up the apartment, I took pictures of all the rooms, for sentimental value and also so that we could one day laugh at the egregious amount of clutter that we have. What follows is a truly frightening amount of mess. I did not clean up before taking these pictures. The apartment is much neater now ... because about 33% of it is packed into cardboard boxes. Whee!

( The Old Apartment ... or the Slum that Dawn Calls Home )

And now, we move onto the baby birds.

Last year, we had a nest of house finches on our balcony, in our hanging flower basket. We got another pair this year; I don't know if it's the same pair or a different one, but they're house finches again. The babies left a few days ago; I tried to take pictures every few days to show their growth.

( Baby Birds )

Yes, no pic spam would be complete without pictures of Alex. He's still growing and getting prettier by the day. All that puppy awkwardness is nearly gone, and he's getting feathers on his legs and tail.

( Alex Gator )

I have still more (yikes!) of Alex baby pictures just developed and pictures from Swallow Falls State Park, but I'll save those for another day.

Well, it's official: My little sister Sharon and her girlfriend of two years have tied the knot. *pops the cork on some sparkling cider since Sharon's straight-edge and won't drink champagne* So now she's an old married lady like me with full rights to gripe if Kirsty consistently leaves the kitchen lights on or fails to turn her clothes out before putting them into the laundry.

They're in London on honeymoon and aren't here to see it, but here's some obnoxious marquee spam done in their honor!


Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!


Sharon is probably regreting the day that she ever agreed to teach me basic HTML and therefore opened a can of worms for me to discover the marquee tag!

( Other News )

About a month ago, I noticed that a pair of house finches were showing some interest in our hanging basket of snapdragons. I noticed a lot of fluttering in and out and knew what that meant.

So I pulled the basket down to toss out the bird's nest before it got too far underway or (worse) had eggs in it...and I was too late. There was the most precious, tiny little nest with five little eggs in it. Of course, I got all excited and squeeful and started checking it regularly and documenting my finds with pictures.

The baby birds are eleven days old today. Here are the pictures that I have of them so far.

( Baby-Bird Pic Spam! )