My busy June is just getting started
It's beginning to look like spring has sprung around here, and flowers are popping out all over. This makes me feel better because when I don't have any real pictures to show, I can always step outside and take a picture of a flower, or dig deep into my past photos and show some pictures that I took last winter that I haven't shown before.
I took the first important step of my busy June out of the way today when a mobile RV repairman came and worked on the Arctic Fox's brakes and welded up a broken folding step. This was just the first step with many more to follow.
Next will be on 10 June at the VA clinic to have my blood drawn and tested,
and then another VA clinic visit to my doctor on June 17, who will interpret the results for me.
And about two weeks later, I'll have an appointment with my VA audiologist to get a hearing aid. I can hear myself talking just fine; it's other people who walk around whispering all the time that's the problem.
I also need to make an appointment with my dermatologist soon. It's the dermatologist I've been seeing for years, and the VA is kind enough to cover the cost of my appointments now.
And then, of course, there's my cataracts that need an operation this year.
Looking at all of that and realizing that's the way I'm spending my entire Spring, it's beginning to look like there's something wrong with me. It's possible that I love being around doctors; I could be a hypochondriac? But more than likely, it looks like I've become a decrepit old geezer held together with Band-Aids, maintenance drugs, and stitches.
Theboondork...... slowly doddering off into the sunset.
Columbine.
Chatfield Reservoir.
You may have noticed that many of my pictures of Chatfield Reservoir show brush cut off and sticking out of the water, and trees sawed off with their stumps sticking out of the water. And the explanation for this is...
Several years ago, they enlarged Chatfield Reservoir to hold more water, which flooded many acres of trees and brush. I assume they knew that trees growing in water would kill them, and it would have been easier to cut the trees down before the land flooded. Still, for some reason understood only by government agencies, they flooded the land. Then they cut the trees while standing in a boat, making the cutting much more difficult, time-consuming, and therefore more expensive.... But it's only taxpayers' money, so who cares?
Black and white. Sometimes I like to take black and white pictures, but I find they’re not very colorful.