Great Blue Heron and Herring

A big storm is blowing through the city tonight and my cable TV has suffered an area wide outage. Hence, I'm blogging a bit earlier than I would normally. The Internet, also controlled by Comcast seems to be functioning reasonably well.

This morning, after the first pair of World Cup games on ESPN, I took a stroll around Lake Como. About halfway around I encountered this great blue heron having lunch. Lunch looks all the world like unpickled herring. This creature may have flown over the Gulf of Mexico on its way north, and appears to have missed out on the oil bath which seems to be available there. It's a pretty good picture of wild life for a city lake, so I'm sharing.



The USA soccer team begins the knock out round in World Cup action tomorrow with a game with Ghana, the last remaining African team in the tournament. They're looking pretty competitive.

John Isner, the winner of the longest tennis match in Wimby and tennis history (see yesterday), lost his next match in the tournament pretty meekly today. He produced no aces, and was bageled in the first set. He apparently had a lot of very bad blisters and a shortage of energy and competitive fire. I think I know why (see yesterday).

The Prairie Princess spent most of the day working on landscaping at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville. She says that it will be open for business on July 10, and that anyone in the area should check out the native plants decoratively included in the new landscaping for the structure.