Managing My Media

We have a determined rose that's doing its best to bloom out there, matching its deep red color to the yellows and russets of the fallen leaves. I'm not sure how far that rose is going to get, though. We're supposed to have barely freezing temperatures Monday and Wednesday, and below freezing a few days after that. I should probably cut the rose bud and bring it in, along with the pelargoniums and the citrus tree. We're probably going to cover the avocado too, though I doubt it will get cold enough for long enough to do it harm.

I was just buried in media yesterday. Photos, videos, blog-reading, news-reading, book-reading, you name it!

For one thing, I went through the Australia album and scanned all the photos that I want to put on Flickr. I scanned a total of 66 pictures, and I hope to have them all posted within a day or two. I identified a few more locations and made a few more connections between the images themselves, so that project is coming together.

I also made some headway in "The Old Curiosity Shop," and hope to make more today. And in between I did two loads of laundry and some cleaning, blah blah blah.

I also downloaded the wildlife cam. We had a lot of videos this week -- more than 150! But most of them were disposable clips of pigeons and squirrels, and after skimming them all I managed to condense the good stuff into just four minutes. There were a few clips of two foxes together, which is pretty exciting. I almost never see multiple foxes at once.

The video starts out with Q-Tip and Guy Fox separately trotting back and forth. Twice, they're carrying something in their mouths, but I can't see what it is. I suppose they've been hunting. I'd assume pigeons, but it's at night and I don't think pigeons are generally on the ground when it's dark. Maybe rats, but you'd think a tail would be visible.
-- At 0:44, Pale Cat strolls casually across the lawn, then runs back in a full feline freak-out and leaps into a tree. A bird flies out of the tree. Was he trying to catch the bird? Who knows.
-- At 1:10, one of the foxes trots by on a very misty/rainy morning. Eventually all you can see in the fog is its glowing eyes! Very Halloween.
-- There's some more fox back-and-forth, and then, at 1:50, we get footage of Q-Tip and Guy Fox exploring the back of the garden together.
-- At 2:32, a squirrel freaks out.
-- At 2:42, pigeons march in regimental formation.
-- At 2:51, Q-Tip trots by with his mouth open, which is odd. It's like he's panting. He goes over the fence, and then we see him trot by at night, still with an open mouth. I wonder if he injured his mouth somehow.
-- At 3:36, Blackie casually strolls across the grass. I haven't seen Blackie in several weeks.
-- At 3:50, Tabby runs under the garden bench. Again, I haven't seen this cat in a while. Meanwhile, Bell the Bengal was among the missing this week. The cats, they come and go.