bring on the (winter) funk

We are not quite at the shortest day of the year, but I can feel the difference already. It's dark when I get out of work, hard to get myself to the gym or elsewhere, and I'm craving sweets. Luckily my will has been strong and I've resisted most of the late-night munchies, yet the scale's reading grows slowly. We really do burn off a lot of calories during rugby season.

It's been a difficult week at work and I don't have the motivation to write about much, but Homer's latest entry reminded me of a nice trip we took down to San Carlos in the spring of 2006. I posted some pictures to my Flickr account that I somehow missed the first time around. I think at that time I didn't have an extended account so I was being frugal.

Anyway, the bird to the left was a glamourous reddish egret who was quite the ham. Homer and I explored a mangrove estuary where there were lots of new birds to check off the list of birds seen that day. We went on a naturalist boat tour where I realized there is definitely opportunities out there for knowledgeable naturalists. She was awful and wouldn't stop talking, and I lost count the number of times she was wrong about this or that fact.



Sunshine and surf to think about these winter months.

Me in the mangroves.