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Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Morning Routine, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011
Morning Routine, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011

Back 'em up folks

I'm sitting here writing this post on the iPad while my laptop hard drive is being restored from a backup.

I got lucky. At least I hope so. I just did a full bootable backup of the laptop in preparation for partitioning the drive for a project I have in mind that I want to keep isolated from my day to day stuff. I finished the backup and when I went to partition the drive the disk utility refused, saying the drive was corrupt and needed to be wiped and reformatted first.

Let's hope the restoration succeeds.

Night camp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

They do not Intrude on Each Other

The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...

The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987

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