I recently went on a week-long birding trip to Florida, and unlike the majority of my life, everything went according to plan. I was able to see all the birds I hoped to, and more. During this time, I didn't really read any news or even check the weather in my home state of Minnesota. I largely stayed off of social media as well. I was too busy from dawn to dusk photographing birds, and in the evenings sorting through all the pictures I had taken that day. I had been in kind of a winter...

When I took this photo of a Short-eared Owl, I was standing outside in a prairie area in Iowa. It was February, the temperature was 1...

I am supposed to be working on my taxes right now...but I thought I would write a blog post instead, because procrastinating a little...