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A thousand words (or more)
Someone made a comment to me last week that gave me a moment’s pause. In an offhand, joking manner, he mentioned that I’ve posted more photographs than insights on my blog of late. I’m sure he meant no...
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View ArticleDipping my toes into the LJ waters again
No time for deep thoughts this morning, so I’d thought I’d wade in shallow waters. Here, then, a handful of Monday tangents musings… What is it about grape jelly that fascinates our orioles so? In...
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Thankful Thursday: Winged wonders
Be like a birdThat pausing in her flightAwhile on boughs to light,Feels them give wayBeneath her and yet sings,Knowing that she hath wings.Victor Marie Hugo It's National Bird Day, so who else to...
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A fine feathered friend
Looks like something's ruffled this mourning dove's feathers, doesn't it? But looks are deceiving. Messy plumage aside, he sits calmly on the back fence this morning, greeting the new day with gentle...
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Early birds at breakfast
As the blue moon gave way to silvery dawn, I joined these early birds for breakfast. Lesser Goldfinches. Song Sparrow Spotted Towhee Lesser Goldfinch Costa’s Hummingbird Second breakfast, because why...
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When Life Hands You Lemons…
drink deep their zesty nectar. Practicing in manual mode…mmmm, sugary goodness! Day 5 of Susannah Conway’s #AugustBreak2015 photography challenge. The word of the day is citrus, so…hippity hop, to the...
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Throwback Thursday: Paradise found
I have arrived. I am home. –Thích Nhất Hạnh It seems like just yesterday that the moving trucks rolled into our new driveway, but we’ve lived in this place for a little over a year, now! We’re slowly...
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The red red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along
American Robin, female At the confluence of serendipity & symbolism sits this red-breasted beauty. She appeared in my backyard for the first time yesterday, a dandelion wish finally realized. I’d...
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Art Challenge of the Week: Showing the LOVE
Welcome, everybody, to this week’s art challenge. In honor of Valentine’s Day, our theme is–you guessed it–LOVE. Meet Wendy and Peter, affectionately named for two of our most beloved storybook...
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Faith, trust, and a little pixie dust
So much has changed since we last talked about Aryana’s hummingbird hatchlings on this blog. In brief: Within the span of 24 days, Wendy and Peter broke free of their eggshells, sprouted feathers and...
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The KKK rally in Anaheim, Part II: What was I thinking?
Whether or not they supported the counter-protest (or read my takeaways from that event), a handful of people expressed real concerns about my having attended the KKK rally in Anaheim. Some talked to...
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Walking on the beach, last Sunday morning
I was thinking: so this is how you swim inward, so this is how you flow outward, so this is how you pray. Excerpted from 5 a.m. in the Pinewoods, by Mary Oliver
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On the morning after Donald Trump became the GOP’s presumptive nominee
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. –Barbara Kingsolver This handsome hummingbird...
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Rain and Beau: Baby hummingbirds, about to fledge
Until you spread your wings, You’ll have no idea how far you can fly. (Unknown) Aryana, a non-migrating Allen’s hummingbird, built her nest in the fuchsia that grows along my front walkway, way back...
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Rain and Beau take to the skies
Treat yourself, why don’t you, to our hummingbird hatchlings’ pre-fledge antics. Watch as Rain helicopters above the nest, hovers mid-flight, and manages a graceful landing on a twig beside the nest....
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Flight Plans: #AugustBreak2016
Sunlight spreads itself across the neighboring hillsides, nudging the earth out of its slumber. A hummingbird glides easily between palm dates and salvia, chittering as it sips nectar, and I celebrate...
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Seal Pups at Children’s Pool Beach in La Jolla
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. (Robert Frost, Mending Wall) I visited Children’s Pool Beach in La Jolla this past...
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