Oops, I totally disappeared for over a month due to an onslaught of visitors! They may have left me with little time for blog posts, but I was REALLY grateful to spend time with familiar faces. Until our ex-ex-pat friends Brad and April moved here from Amsterdam a few weeks ago, we pretty much knew no one in this area, and you can’t imagine how happy I was to see my brother (his first trip to the West Coast!) and his girlfriend, one of Mark’s closest friends, and my mother-in-law, who each arrived on a different week and made me feel like a normal person again.
One of the few days we didn’t have guests was September 27, which was also the night of the total lunar eclipse. I joined several other photographers behind San Francisco’s Ferry Building in an attempt to capture the eclipsing moon as it rose over the Bay Bridge. Unfortunately, low-lying clouds obscured the moon until it was so high it was no longer close to the bridge, so we didn’t exactly get the shots we were hoping for, but I randomly met a couple who moved here from Northern Virginia a couple of years ago, which was fun. Ordinarily I’m extremely shy but it was nice to have a shooting buddy to talk to that night. Here’s what it looked like once we were finally able to see the moon that night:
In personal news, yesterday I started training at a local wildlife hospital and I LOVED it. I was SO HAPPY to be close to wildlife again; I’ve really missed the rehab work I did in Virginia. The staff were very excited that I have a pre-exposure rabies shot, so I’m hoping to be fast-tracked to handling the rabies vector species – which those without the shots can’t do – including raccoons, skunks, and bats, which just so happen to be three of my favorite animals. 🙂 I also hope to be fast-tracked to raptor handling considering my prior experience with and intense love of raptors as well. Basically I just want to go there every day and help all the animals, although I will have to languish as a substitute until there’s room for me on the permanent schedule. I probably won’t be allowed to photograph the rehab animals so you may not see a lot of pictures from the hospital, but we do have a nice collection of non-releaseable education animals that I’ll hopefully get some shots of at some point in time and I will certainly share them here. In the meantime, I’ve made it a personal goal to post some of my other pictures here on a regular basis in the upcoming weeks.
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