At the end of the day

A quick shot taken at the end of a long and most enjoyable day of birding for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, south of Calgary, in the Nanton area. We were on our way to our hosts' home (keeping an eye open for any owls that might be around - in fact, two Great Horned Owls) for a delicious supper. Thanks so much to the Truch family for going to all this trouble for us!

I just find this image soothing - something I appreciate, especially as the lady from the Coroner's Office in England called a short while ago and left a message with the results of my brother's autopsy - natural causes, Ischaemic Heart Disease. I was up to about 5:00 a.m. this morning, I think, trying to find a few songs/music that felt right for John's funeral. I went to YouTube to listen to various ideas, but I'm still not sure how I can get some of these choices from "here" to "there" (Birmingham) : ) I wasn't thinking very clearly and just saved the songs from YouTube - which I read later doesn't work (for obvious copyright reasons, I guess). I think my friend, Diana, said that the funeral place has a list of music to choose from, but there are so many versions of, say, Amazing Grace, that I'm not sure how I know what version would be played. Any help/suggestions from anyone who has had to do this, would be much appreciated. Now that the autopsy results are known, I know that time for getting things done is running out rapidly.