Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro enjoys birding, gardening, taking photos, reading, and watching tennis. She's retired from a 25+ year career in web design, usability, and accessibility.

Photo of the Week: Harlequin Duck

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A small dark brown and blue duck with white bill, white spot behind the eye, and vertical white band along the back of the head swims slowly in the river, near the shoreline with tangled branches in the background.

What a surprise my friends Donna and Bill had when they learned the small dark duck they saw at a nearby inland lake was a Harlequin Duck.

A sea duck typically seen in northwest North America, Greenland, and eastern Canada, the Harlequin Duck winters along the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England as well as the Pacific Northwest coast.

The Harlequin Duck my friends found is a rare bird for southeast Michigan and the first time the bird was sighted in Washtenaw County.

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Moving to a New Online Bookmarking Service: RainDrop.io

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RainDrop bookmark manager home page highlighting the two-pane interface.

In 2006, after years of saving bookmarks in the browser, I started using an online bookmarking service.

I was tired of opening up one of the three browsers I used, only to remember the bookmarks I saved were in another browser.

An online bookmarking service meant I wouldn’t need to use one specific browser, which was one of my goals.

As well as being better able to tag, organize, and collect my bookmarks.

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Photo of the Week: Ice Storm in Southern Michigan

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Red maple branch with clusters of red buds completely encased in clear ice. One to two-inch icicles hang from the bottom of the branch, blurred green grass in the background.

While ice-covered branches look pretty, last week’s ice storm in southern Michigan resulted in downed power lines, fallen tree limbs, and widespread power outages.

The combination of snow, rain, accumulating ice, and strong winds caused wires to come down across roads, blew transformers, and broke tree branches which landed on streets, houses, and vehicles.

Over 750,000 electric customers in Michigan were initially without power, many customers for more than two days.

At a time when temperatures were below freezing; the wind chill on one day brought the temperature to 10 degrees Farenheit.

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