Thank You Robin

Today the Thank You Robin returned to her perch looking at me through the sun room window and glass door of the office. It was probably there to thank me for accidentally leaving the sprinkler on all night yesterday, making worm hunting a lot easier. Today I was ready with my digital camera, but after I had taken only one picture through the glass door and window the robin turned its back on me. I opened the sun room door and waited for it to turn around but it never did, and shortly it flew away. At the time I figured the bird did not want its picture taken.

However, when I downloaded the one picture tonight, cropped it, adjusted the color and saved it, something strange happened. The colored picture I saved turned out black and white. I did it again and the same thing happened. Finally I went back to the original picture from the camera that was not cropped or corrected. I saved it and made a copy of that picture but every time I did it the cropped black and white picture appeared on the screen. It was strange and after many tries I decided to just go with the flow and use the black and white. I guess some thank yous do not want to be recorded and used. In all my computer experience I have never experienced such a weird thing.

Dawn and I worked on the DMZ community garden tonight and this time I had my digital camera with me. I took some nice pictures and will post them on the DMZ page soon (hopefully not in black and white).

I am sure the black and white Thank You Robin is just some computer setting I accidentally enabled. But the Thank You Robin only allowing one picture, and it coming out black and white, makes for a good story about how some thank yous are meant to be just once and in black and white.

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