(7/22 Friday)
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| Screen Porch |
This day (Temp 84F and sunny) was a rest day. The GPS guided me to Starbucks in Keene for Internet access and I spent a lazy hour reading Count Zero, drinking coffee and browsing the world-wide-web. Perfect.
William Gibson published Count Zero in 1986, the dedication excerpts a fragment of a Neruda love poem in Spanish (I liked that). It is the second in the Neuromancer series, which is one of the first cyberpunk novels. Neuromancer introduced the now well-worn phrase Cyberspace and the novel Count Zero expands on the concept. The protagonist, whose handle is Count Zero, is a novice to cyberspace travel, but he learns to surf the net in quick order. The novel is an attention grabber; great reading for noisy air travel.
We ate dinner on the screen porch in full view of the birdbath, the hummingbird feeder and the mixed woodland beyond. The birds came to wash and feed during our dinner - 20 birds in all. The most colorful bird was a Scarlet Tanager that perched in the woods in full view.
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| Birdbath and Woods Beyond |
The other birds we saw during dinner were: Chipping Sparrow, House Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat, Robin, Chickadee, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Bluebird, Goldfinch, Eastern Phoebe, Purple Finch, Tufted Titmouse, Catbird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Crow, Turkey Vulture (flying overhead), Nuthatch, Yellow-rumpled Warbler, Eastern Kingbird and Scarlet Tanager.
A walk after dinner to a nearby pond in the woods yielded more birds: Osprey, Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed Hawk, and a bat.
We also got some bug bites on the walk. I've forgotten what was for dinner, but I recall that it was tasty.
Tomorrow we travel to Essex Junction, Vermont.
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