Birthday girl

Happy sweet 16th, Flower! You can't really see it, but she's wearing her birthday gift - a beautiful new collar with flowers (!!) and butterflies on it. (Her old collar had gotten way too big, and she actually got her foot stuck in it the other day.)

Good-bye old roof

Scenes from Day 1 of roofing job: old roof being removed.

More birdlife in Hilton Head

We saw this bird (duck?) near a pond in Queen's Grant last weekend while taking a walk. I went back the next day to take his (her?) picture. He's even more odd-looking when he's walking around and his topknot is standing up. Perfectly tame, though, and used to having his picture taken, I think.


Some of his not-quite-mallard friends.


A bald eagle sitting in the middle of the 11th fairway! He's that tiny dot on the other side of the lagoon. I got a little closer and took a couple of other pictures, but they were pathetically blurry. (I had run home to get the camera and then run down to the lagoon and was breathing pretty hard.) Anyway, it really was an eagle - he looked very odd just sitting there in the grass.