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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Bird

I think I may need to wear my glasses full time.  I filled my prescription last year at about this time, after holding onto it for a full year before that. Denial,  anyone?  So I've worn them the past year, for reading only at first, then for eating, too.  Lately I've found myself uncomfortable if I don't put them on shortly after I rise in the morning.  However,  since I don't need them to drive I've been able to delude myself into believing that I don't "really" wear glasses.  But an incident this past week has brought me ungracefully into unavoidable reality.  Observe. 
My son is a budding birdwatcher so I am always on the look out for a cool new sighting in our neighborhood.  A couple of days ago I was sure that I had spotted a great one on our neighbor's roof, first thing in the morning, while I was emptying the trash.  I raced into my house to grab the camera and shoot it before it flew away.  I hurriedly threw on the the telephoto lens so I could capture it from our porch. Click. I got it!  The first picture below is pretty much what I saw with my naked eye, some sort of giant mockingbird,---standing very still.














This is what I saw when I put on my glasses and zoomed in on the viewfinder....


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    1. Something good should come from my rapid descent into senior citizenry.

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  2. welcome, to declining eyesight. It is a pain in the neck. I have to keep my glasses close by because everything closer than 3 feet requires them for me.... on the other hand, i can see like an eagle, so I would have had no trouble with the "mockingbird".

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    1. Just goes to show that when we're excited, we see what we want to see...

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  3. too funny, I think there are many who can relate!~

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