Look to the Skies

I strolled out to the dock this morning and saw this in the sky. If you've been to London and seen The Eye, it should be familiar to you. It's come a long way!

Buzzards

They have returned: the buzzards, or, perhaps more properly, the vultures. Here they are, perching on the end of our dock at Bream Lake, trying their best to look like little wrens so we won't notice them and shoo them away. I have mixed feelings about these creatures: on the one hand I appreciate the job they do for us. They are nature's sanitation department. They scavenge for dead creatures , eat them, and clean up the countryside. This is good. They also congregate in large numbers and roost in trees near ones property, creating, as a group, the most God-awful stench imaginable. I guess they're like a jail house: necessary- but "not in my back yard". I think the plusses outweigh the minusses.

Eat your heart out Architectural Digest !

Our clothes dryer at the Lake Bream house went on the fritz and we purchased a new one. I think the old one looks rather nice on the porch. My wife has another opinion. What do you think?