Backyard and Beyond

Same Cooper’s? Could be. First picture from last Wednesday, second picture a day earlier. (We had a good bit of snow.)
Definitely not the same Cooper’s. This is an adult is perched on the same fire escape as the juvenile pictured first above and below. This fire escape is a few yards (quite literally back yards) from the apple tree of the second juvenile Cooper’s photo.
Yesterday morning.
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Line cooks are one of the most dangerous jobs when it comes to the pandemic. The new variants of the virus are more transmissible. You can’t eat with a mask on. Nonetheless, governors are loosening restrictions on in-door dining — this is their strategy in lieu of funding relief for restaurant workers. In the emerging vaccine versus variants struggle, here’s why this is insane.