Arrival

I’m home from an outstanding break birdwatching and catching up with my friend.  This year was especially awesome as there had just been a rainstorm with plenty of flooded fields for the birds to enjoy.  Here are a couple of feeble pictures I took with my iPhone.

Great Egret with Snow Geese, country road, Placer County, California Peregrine Falcon, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

While I was at it, I actually saw two movies in the theater!  I can recommend Arrival (2016) for sci-fi buffs.  It’s about a linguist (Amy Adams) whose mission is to communicate with aliens that have popped up all over the planet and figure out why they came.  It has something to do with a message about the non-linearity of time.  Some of it went over my head but the movie is so eerily beautiful that I didn’t care.

The other was Manchester by the Sea (2016).  The acting, by Casey Affleck, Melissa Williams and others, is fantastic and the film is beautiful to look at.  Be prepared for what seems like hours and hours of unrelieved despair, however.  I was just not up for anything quite that depressing.

I’m looking forward to getting back to 1959 where I belong!