it was below freezing and storm cells rolling by when we headed out for a birthday picnic in our traveling holiday truck. our first stop was an abundance of shore birds, must have been a 1000. a lone woman was walking thru the tidal river, i thought for sure she would be swept out to sea, and frozen to the bone like a slab of marble, it was hard to watch... she floundered a bit and then kept on, right for the birds, it set off a flurry in the sky to behold as they parted for her to pass...
