Early morning, west side
Took a day off today to see "The Hobbit." What a fabulous film! Exciting, fun, thrilling, entertaining, spectacular! Martin Freeman is a wonderful Bilbo, Andy Serkis's Gollum is superb, and Richard Armitage is a standout as Thorin. There's the fun scene with the trolls, and great tension between Thorin and the orc king he thought he'd slain. The backstory was well-done - not overdone (thank God) - just enough to understand some of the characters' emotions and decisions (particulary Thorin). The underlying menace of the rising of the Dark Lord builds the right amount of tension. The dwarves are fun and courageous, and the New Zealand, sorry, Middle-Earth, scenery is visually breath-taking - as always. Verdict: BRILLIANT!
The bird list for today: Not a lot, wrens, thornies, y/f h/e, clogs, rosellas. Heard: spiney, fantails, babblers, black cockatoos "blacks," and sulphurs. AND the reason I didn't see so many birds: the appearance of Wes (collared sparrowhawk) in a tree along the entrance road (and with a call almost like a noisy miner - HUH?)
42C tomorrow in Adelaide. 40C up here with extreme fire danger. Pray for our firefighters. It's snowing in the UK and Europe...
Stay cool for those in Oz.
Happy writing (if you can write in this heat)
Bo
x
The bird list for today: Not a lot, wrens, thornies, y/f h/e, clogs, rosellas. Heard: spiney, fantails, babblers, black cockatoos "blacks," and sulphurs. AND the reason I didn't see so many birds: the appearance of Wes (collared sparrowhawk) in a tree along the entrance road (and with a call almost like a noisy miner - HUH?)
42C tomorrow in Adelaide. 40C up here with extreme fire danger. Pray for our firefighters. It's snowing in the UK and Europe...
Stay cool for those in Oz.
Happy writing (if you can write in this heat)
Bo
x
