Monday, January 2, 2006, 1:30 pm: This is a good day to try out the new digital camera my wife gave me for Christmas. It should be simple enough with only 106 pages of instructions. But I trundle onward!

Some of my first photos I snapped were birds at our feeder, mainly chickadees and blue jays today. I think we have the plumpest wild birds in northern Maine. Today is a good day for them with just a few light snow flurries and relatively mild temperatures, currently 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

Normally it is easy to go outside and take care of a few chores. However, as soon as I take something new with me, in this case a camera, our dogs have to be right there and bark. Of course this makes it difficult to photograph wild birds. I did succeed with a few photographs.

Best of 2006!

Our current data at 1:45 pm from our Vantage-Pro weather station:

Current temp: 18 degrees Fahrenheit

Current barometer: 30.14 and steady

Current humidity: 77%

Wind: light and variable from the NW at 2 mph

Skies: Partially cloudy

Low temp since midnight: 15.4 degrees at midnight

High wind: 11 mph at 11:57 am