Peacock meets Dante

The highlight of my day today was when I saw a peacock in a tree. It was believed by the neighborhood possy to hail from the adjacent neighborhood, which is comprised of estates rather than houses. I haven't seen these estates, but I imagine them to be full of pruned bushes in the shape of ballerinas, clear flowing fountains, delightful gazebos, and tigers named Nala.

The anti-highlight of my day was spending hours in the library dissecting a few select cantos in Dante's Paradiso, and ending up with a few pages of facts, ideas, and connections, but still no thesis for Friday's paper. Anyone have an opinion about Dante's case of family-pride, or the significance of his encounter with his great-great-grandfather in the Paradiso?

If you fail to come up with a thesis for me, you can ponder what it would be like to own an estate with peacocks!

ps. the peacock in the picture is not the recently-cited peacock. but based on the blue neck and green feathers, he may be a distant cousin.

Sunset in Eagle

The light was so gorgeous one evening, I grabbed my camera to see if I could capture the "glowing dogwoods." The softer light, the new growth, the longer days--yippee! Spring is coming.