Doug's Project 365

Two red-eyed vireos from a fun nature walk with Claire. Neither Lis nor I had ever seen these in the wild before. So I guess I could say, “nothing for 55 years, and now twice in one day!”

Boston Light from our ferry to Provincetown.

We went to a drone art show in Boston, drone sky painting accompanying a live string quartet. Here’s a swan (for Swan Lake, naturally) over Harvard Stadium.

We stopped & got ice cream (and cheese, not shown) at High Lawn Farm, which makes its products right there on the farm from their own cows’ milk.

The nature highlight of our trip to Lenox was getting a really good look at this common yellowthroat, a species of warbler. He stuck around for a good 10 minutes moving from branch to branch, giving us a lot of good views.

Relaxing in the backyard of our B&B in Lenox.

I unexpectedly received new licence plates in the mail today. Why? Typo: somehow the plates wound up with “O” (capital letter O) instead of “0” (digit zero) the first time around.

Go home, Christmas cactus, you’re drunk.

The weather this week was great! I ate my food-truck lunch outside on the Greenway two days in a row.

I found myself in possession of 4 different bottles of rye whiskey. So naturally, the thought that came to mind was “double-blind taste testing!”. We had 6 friends over and Lis poured into lettered glasses.

The results: the Icelandic rye I brought home from our trip was the youngest, and showed it. Somewhat disappointingly, the mass-market brand (Bulleit) beat out two smaller producers (High West and Putnam), though not by a lot.