I got the idea for both this diary and a morning walk from a Guardian article about trying to get people to gain new perspective on planet earth through a virtual reality set up showing earth viewed from space. It made me think about how my own perspective was changed as a boy when I got old enough to ramble around the neighborhood on my own and saw our house from a distant perspective for the first time. The house and home farm was just about my whole world at that time, but it looked tiny and insignificant from a hill top a little over a mile away. I didn’t have any pictures on hand of what I wanted to show, so I took a walk beyond my farm border this very morning.
After taking the first set of pictures, I walked another quarter mile to a further hill crest and took another series at different zoom levels.
In this second set, besides being further away, I’m also further to the left. The cedar that appears to be just left of the house in this set, looks much further to the left in the first set.
Any walk of some duration around here is apt to yield some wild life sightings. On today’s walk I saw a Red-tailed Hawk, a covey of Bobwhites, several Horned Larks, a few Robins, White-crowned & White-throated Sparrows, Downy & Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Meadowlarks, Mockingbirds, several deer and this coyote. Most of the birds were on my own place.