year's end

13 December [foto:jz] 30°F and falling. We went to walk our hound, and see some Christmas lights. Independence puts up a lot, with recorded music, and we see more deer than people. It was cloudless. I had not brought a camera, because we have seen these lights before. The sky was black, there was no wind, a rime was only about to form as we were leaving. I had my nephew take fotos with his phone. I really liked the one supra.

19 December 26°F and falling, after a snowfall. We went another night, and the reflection was not a mirror, but less sharp, and more refracted.

There are wars about the world. Once again a dictator in Moscow is killing Ukrainians. The Gaza Strip in Palestine is virtually destroyed, and the so called 'collateral' deaths are targets. Putin, and Netanyahu are bloodthirsty, and vicious, and will do any wicked, or crooked deed to stay in power.

On the 21st, and 22nd of December an ancient murrelet was swimming by the Lorain lighthouse. This is a bird of the north Pacific. One was seen in Ohio, in 1951. This is the second one recorded. I was there to view him, He was visible on strong binoculars, and mounted scopes. He was on the borderline of naked eye vision. I took fotos, but he was just a smudge. The foto supra is one of many waves of red breasted mergansers that fly over Lake Erie.

Christmas robed dolphin holding a mailbox in Bay Village.