Sunset 7 Dec '21
my son called me from Baltimore to tell me about the fantastic sun set lighting so I put my soup making on hold and drove quickly to the shore at Morning Cheer - this photograph barely begins to capture the glow of end of day
Tide and Sand and Shore Bird Wait For No One
I am having difficulty identifying this little fellow - I do believe it is a plover (somewhat like Wilson's Plover) but I cannot match the bill colour (black) with the leg colour (yellow) and the full colour body and the black eyes. If you are a better birder than I then please feel free to comment on the blog just what this lovely beach bird is. Thank you.
Trek Verve 3 Disc Lowstep - my new bike I bought to help offset my decreasing body agility brought about by arthritis - i.e. I can dismount by simply stepping through the deep V of the frame
Rode
my 320 Trek Verve 3 Disk Lowstep today (fourth ride with my seating finally
adjusted near the correct height). I did about 15 miles today feeling quite decent with the longer ride - but did tire out a lot on the
(to me) steep Shawnah Hill quite near the end of my way home. That name Shawnah Hill seems to have disappeared from local usage as I have aged along with many of the names for other local hills in the area. I wasn't certain of the spelling in a recent Facebook posting so have referred to my copy of the 'History of Cecil County Maryland' by George Johnson (originally published in 1881). There on page 4 a continuation of a discussion of the various Indian tribes settled in the whole of Cecil County I found the following comment: "The Shawanese originally lived in the south, but being threatened with extermination by the surrounding tribes, left their original location, migrated northward, and appear to have been finally absorbed by the more powerful tribes near which they settled. Some of them stopped in Elk Neck, and for a long time after it was settled by the Europeans that part of it along the North East River was called 'Shawnah'. (and I am guessing that what is now known as Hances Point along the river was the Indian settlement area itself)
Is anyone looking at my blog as a way to communicate with Facebook being down - not likely but possible I will check comments a bit just to see -
Well it worked - Facebook read my post on my blog and went all out to come back on line - so you can thank your lucky stars that I did what I did.
