In my quest to get us out of the house and doing fun stuff...

I dragged us out of bed at silly o'clock this morning, and we wandered over to Cougar Park, which is supposedly one of the best places in Salt Lake County for seeing Burrowing Owls.

This is when we found out that Cougar Park is really only open (as in, you can go in and wander about) from October to February.

Yeah, would have been nice to know that, you know, before we went.

But it was small enough that we walked around the perimeter. I got some pretty butterfly pix, a fairly nice shot of a Horned Lark, and some flowers and bugs.

Then we headed south to the Mehraban Wetlands, which is a hidden treasure in the Draper/Riverton area. As in, don't blink, or you'll totally miss the entrance to the thing. Apparently they had a fire recently, as the people living around the park had melted vinyl fences, and the trees were blackened.

However...

California Quail (which I fail at shooting. Miserably). Dragonflies. Great Blue Herons. Scads and scads of ducks. A juvenile Double-Crested Cormorant. And SHADE. Lovely, cool SHADE.

( Pix, under the cut. Big ones. )

In my quest to get us out of the house and doing fun stuff...

I dragged us out of bed at silly o'clock this morning, and we wandered over to Cougar Park, which is supposedly one of the best places in Salt Lake County for seeing Burrowing Owls.

This is when we found out that Cougar Park is really only open (as in, you can go in and wander about) from October to February.

Yeah, would have been nice to know that, you know, before we went.

But it was small enough that we walked around the perimeter. I got some pretty butterfly pix, a fairly nice shot of a Horned Lark, and some flowers and bugs.

Then we headed south to the Mehraban Wetlands, which is a hidden treasure in the Draper/Riverton area. As in, don't blink, or you'll totally miss the entrance to the thing. Apparently they had a fire recently, as the people living around the park had melted vinyl fences, and the trees were blackened.

However...

California Quail (which I fail at shooting. Miserably). Dragonflies. Great Blue Herons. Scads and scads of ducks. A juvenile Double-Crested Cormorant. And SHADE. Lovely, cool SHADE.

( Pix, under the cut. Big ones. )

Weird.

So, I've begun the BeeFic anew, from the faeries' viewpoint...and it sort of defaulted into first person.

Huh, sez I, I've been writing in first person an awful lot lately. But that's not strictly true. Out of seven completed stories, only two are in first person.

What's odd is...the two that are first person? Are mercenary/security guard types. The BeeFic? They're going to war.

What does that say about me that my first person stories are those where the POV character is the type of person who kills people and breaks things for a living?

Weird.

So, I've begun the BeeFic anew, from the faeries' viewpoint...and it sort of defaulted into first person.

Huh, sez I, I've been writing in first person an awful lot lately. But that's not strictly true. Out of seven completed stories, only two are in first person.

What's odd is...the two that are first person? Are mercenary/security guard types. The BeeFic? They're going to war.

What does that say about me that my first person stories are those where the POV character is the type of person who kills people and breaks things for a living?