The first cup of morning coffee always tastes so good, especially after a long weekend.
It was a weekend full of fun and reminiscing and laughter and lots of food. For the third year we went to Coldwater Lake for a mini college friends' reunion. All the guys are fraternity brothers. Three of the wives went to the same university. This circle of friendship has lasted almost 50 years, from our university days to getting our first jobs to getting married to becoming parents to taking care of our parents to becoming grandparents to now talking about some health issues and aches and pains. Golden friendships.
Last night all the planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, aligned in a cosmic parade. The best time to see them was after twilight and I missed that window. With my Night Sky app, I found Neptune and Pluto at 10:30 pm (22:30) and then early this morning around 6:30 (06:30) I went outside and found Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus with the Night Sky app. Jupiter was visible to the naked eye. A couple morning walkers were taking their stroll in the early morning peace and a couple cars passed by on their way to their Monday morning destinations.
When we left for the lake my bird feeders still had some food on them. This morning, while looking out the window as the coffee brewed, I saw that they had polished off the last remnants. The birds are now in their molting season, replacing their old feathers with new ones. It happens after their breeding season and before migration and is energetically demanding. As I put water in the bird bath and new seed on the feeders, a cardinal chirped, "It's about time!"
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