Shade Day 2014

April 15. It probably would have been several days earlier but for the stormy, cloudy weather we were having. What a gorgeous day yesterday was, though! I hadn't planned on taking a long walk, but it felt like a crime against nature not to enjoy the weather. I was rewarded by a sighting of a pileated woodpecker. They're so impressive to see, so handsome and large. And of course now they always remind me of the ivory-bill and that amazing surge of hope we felt a few years ago.






(No picture of the woodpecker, alas. Well, I did get a distance photo, but it wasn't any better quality than my handheld shot of the "blood moon" lunar eclipse the night before!)