Happy Columbus Day!

Here I thought that on a federal holiday like today, nothing would get delivered. I was happy to come home to a box full of shiny (well, actually more of a matte finish) new business cards. Thanks UPS, now if only you delivered them by this past Saturday, I could have actually handed them out to people at the arts festival! Oh well, it’s my fault for using ground shipping anyway. I’m extremely happy with how they came out, I use GotPrint for my business cards – I got 1,000 double-sided full color cards on their premium paper for $20 plus about $10 P&H. They look great and you can’t beat their prices.

Today started off a little strangely for me. I went to get in the shower this morning and was startled by a knocking at my bathroom window. Pretty strange, since it’s on the second floor. I peered out the window and looked up to see a red headed woodpecker pecking away at the roof of my house. Now I love having birds around the house, but this is just plain offensive. Thoughts of loading up my 10/22 came to mind. I then came to my senses and knocked on the window to shoo Woody away. It flew off to a tree in front of my house and then I saw its nest in a hole right at the very top.

I ran downstairs to grab my camera because, well, I have problems. At that point I heard it pecking away again. This time it was knocking on my neighbor’s roof. I quickly put on my 55-300mm zoom and grabbed this shot of the interloper:

You know, one tip you will hear time and time again in the world of photography is to not forget to look behind you. I’m glad I did, because I saw this very colorful Carolina Wren perched on the antenna of my car. If I was still doing my 365 project, this would have totally been my shot of the day, and if I didn’t look the other way I would have missed it.

That’s all for now, I’m going to celebrate Columbus day with some pasta and bread – viva Italia!