Testing the Waters

So… here we go.  I’m here in my new “home” and I don’t know where all the appliances are going to go yet… heck, I’m not even sure how to get them in the house!  I’m not thrilled with my bland design so far, and yet I’m liking the simplicity too.  It’s only bland because I haven’t figure out how to work  with it yet, I do know there are so many options if I find the patience.

Blogger was so darn easy, I wish I didn’t have to leave my old house.  But there’s something about owning your space, the certainty of it that makes this uncharted territory navigation worth while.

      Let’s see if I can figure out a picture insert –

 Aha!  First mission accomplished.

A little background about the Cormorant – I took this picture last year when out kayaking in our cove with my good camera.  I was able to sneak up pretty close to this fellow as he was drying his wings while resting on a rock not yet covered by the incoming tide.     Cormorants are fish eaters and divers, who propel themselves with their feet and a little help from their wings. They have been known to dive as deep as 150 feet! They nest in colonies and are coastal birds rather than oceanic, found all around the world.  We often watch them fishing out in front of our little cottage, where it’s most often no deeper than six feet.  They’ll dip under the water and come up a minute or two later about 40 feet away.

Once I witnessed a cormorants dinner of a rather large eel. Took him a few minutes to swallow the whole slippery wiggling thing.  That’s when I discovered we had been swimming and muck walking and clamming among eels… and now it’s all I can think about when out there – from now on it’s high tide swimming for me.

If you’ve found me here unpacking my new space, thank you for stopping by – and leave a comment to let me know that feature is working the way it needs to.

Till soon –