Deer Watching in Pine Grove Neighborhood.
First it was sunny, then cloudy, then drizzly, then sunny again, then cloudy again.
We went on a deer watch after dinner tonight, just before sunset. I thought I would share the evening with you. The deer count in the field is: 27.

Slow news day in the Klamath Basin.
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To be fair and balanced, I must admit that it was rainy and cloudy all day today, here in the Basin.
Spring has sprung! Everyone is mowing and cleaning up their flower beds. The Daffodils are now blooming in all their yellow beauty, the Tulips will be blooming, with their multicolored splendor, in a couple of weeks. Nancy and I will put out all the yard art and bird bathes for display, tomorrow. The Gazebo cover will go on next week, maybe. We have a few ambitious yard projects we want to do this summer: First off, we want to put in the water pond we have been putting off for three years, and second, a new bird bath with a running water feature. We have other ideas too, but I think we will wait until we finish the first two before we talk about the others.
A few Klamath Facts:
Did you know?
The City of Klamath Falls’ motto is: “Oregon’s City of Sunshine”?
The City of Klamath Falls’ symbol/Logo is: “The White Pelican”?
The Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge is, the first waterfowl refuge created in the United States?
Did I mention that I like it here in Klamath Falls?

Movie Review: Sentinel.
This movie is entertaining and worth the price of a ticket, if you’re paying senior prices, as I do.
It turns out to be a typical, but fair, action thriller, cop movie. No academy nominations for anything will be made for this movie; it must have come from the same formula and machine as Michael’s last movie, of a month or so ago, so impressing that I can not even remember the name of it now. Let’s see… what was I talking about… oh, yeah, Sentinel.

The highlight of the evening though was one of the trailers shown: Pathfinder (2006). Unless they shot their entire wad in the trailer, it looked promising. Its plot is of Vikings interacting with Native Americans in the eleventh century. I think it may be based on some archeological evidence discovered in the United States at some point in time.
Oop’s: I think I might have been mesmerized by the trailer, I found the following information on its Web Site, and it does not look promising!

Production has started on Phoenix Pictures latest film, "PATHFINDER," directed by Marcus Nispel ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre") and featuring "Doom" star Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, Clancy Brown, Jay Tavare, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller and Russell Means.
Phoenix Pictures released the following synopsis of "Pathfinder," a movie based on the findings of 1,000 year-old Norse artifacts and inspired by Nils Gaup's film, "Ofelas": The film centers on a boy left behind by the Norsemen 15 years prior to their return to the New World. The child is raised by American Indians. When Norsemen storm the eastern shores, once again waging a barbaric campaign, they slaughter the tribe that adopted him.

It is just another beautiful day, here in the Klamath Basin. Today is Wednesday, and therefore, Great Conversations reading group day! Today was the last of the short stories and annotated selections, and was: Boys and Girls, a short story by Alice Munro. Our next two, and final selections for this series, are: Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, by Fredrick Douglas, and Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow. Today's discussion was one of the few, we have had, that everyone was so enthusiastically impressed by. At just thirteen pages, this short story provided us with three hours of lively discussion. This was my first experience with this author. I'm looking forward to reading more from her collection of short stories. I sincerely encourage everyone to give her a read; 0ne can google her work and Bio. This is all I have for now; I will try to post again tomorrow.

Well, it was a beautiful day here in the Klamath Basin.
I got into the spring spirit and went out shopping for spring needs. I needed lawn fertilizer, thistle seed and regular bird seed for the back yard bird feeders, a couple of new bird feeders, and some Sun Flower seeds for planting in the back yard flower garden.
After that I still had plenty of time left so I decided to go out for a birding field trip. I first took a spin through Nancy's folks' neighborhood, for some deer watching, then on out to the Lower Klamath Wildlife Reserve.
In the pictures above, the birds are: a Ruddy Duck and three Eared Grebes, the snow capped mountain is, Mt. Shasta, some sixty miles distant.
I hope you enjoy these images as much as I did taking them.

Birding the Basin. Nancy and I were out to Miller Island, one of our favorite birding spots, last Wednesday, and got a couple of good digital images. Our main findings for the trip were: five Sandhill Cranes, A flock of Yellow Headed Black Birds, the first ones of the year for us, and these amazingly close ups of a Ringed Neck Pheasant. This is the closest we have ever gotten to one!

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