One of the best parts of the arrival of cooler weather, besides the simple fact that I feel much, much more energetic, is that I can carry a camera with me all the time, not just when I know that I won't be risking damage to heat-sensitive electronics in a too-warm parked car. So it was that when I was coming home from a shopping trip and a YMCA cardiac-rehab workout, I just happened to have my old friend Fuji 3800, an early version of the supertelephoto class of sophisticated point-and-shoot cameras, with me when I noticed the close-to-resident Great Blue Heron working the plunge pool of the Potter Hill dam. I've seen this bird many times angling the shallows by the dam and in various downstream fishing areas, but this was the first time in a while that I had the right tool for the capture task with me. So I parked the car and very, very carefully worked my own way upstream. The light was almost too dim, the Fuji isn't really tack sharp under such conditions, and the result is a fairly soft image. Even so, I rather like the impressionistic shot.