Arizona Dreamin’

By laurie54

Mexican Jay

I have no earthly idea how I got this shot in focus.  I had an appointment with the retina specialist and I think they put a gazillion different drops into my eyes. Rhetorical question: if the repaired retinal tear was in only one eye, why did they have to douse the other one, too?  Usually, I'm pretty good within a half hour after my regular eye dilation.  This time, it was hours on end.  It didn't help that the sun was brilliant today, either.  I managed to take care of a messed up car registration renewal at the MVD (DMV when I lived in New York and MVA in Maryland) then foolishly decided to drive up to the Canyon.  There was virtually no bird action.  I got three shots of this jay then slowly coasted down the mountain.  Thank goodness it's not a winding road.

When I got home, I had to close every blind.  Since then I've been doing laundry and handing out MM hearts and HMs.  I'm pretty wiped out right now and have a horribly busy day tomorrow so it will be late when I post the list.  Most of the world won't see it until Friday. 

All I did to this photo was crop it because I couldn't see what the heck I was doing. 

EDIT: I took another crack at it now that I can see.  I think it's markedly better.  Hope you think so, too. 
Oh, and it was the very first time in 9 months I was able to lift and hold my good camera (with a little leaning on stuff).  Whoo hoo!

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