The eastern and southern skies were completely taken over by the dark clouds. We got some rain but most of it moved east of us. The colorful houseboats looked pretty against the dark horizon.

Nikita and I have started a project. The colorful birds are coming in but they are very skittish. If we sit anywhere within 10 yards to watch them, they tend to fly away.

So, we are trying out something different. We set up my iPhone very close to one of the bird feeder. (you can see it on the left top picture). And then started streaming the camera to my laptop using a handy app.

Then sitting in the kitchen, we checked out all the birds on our screen!! We did not even have to go out.

We need to improve from here. For one, the camera needs to be lower. For another, I need to get the zoom going…

Here is a funny thing… Every time a bird appeared on the screen, both of us would involuntarily start talking in hush hush voices. And then would laugh out realizing the mistake we were making…

Easily one of my most favorite pictures. This happened this evening by Lake Lanier. It was a nice and fairly bright day. And then the clouds rolled in from the south. Dropped some fairly sharp showers and then it moved on. But the clouds gathering up was a fantastic sight.

Again, the iPhone camera is too good. The only editing done is this picture is to crop it to 5:3 ratio.

Now we have to recycle all these bottles. Pretty impressive build up, I would say, given that the recycling centers have been closed for only 10-12 weeks. A few things I learnt from Sharmila…

Apparently, you have to sort out those bottles by color before recycling. I am surprised that once glass gets incinerated and repurposed, the color is retained or that it even matters.

This one takes the cake for me… I always thought those wine bottles were black (or at least blackish) in color. Hold them up to some light and you will realize that most of them are greenish!!

Taken with the iPhone