Birds are still singing; the trees are long past their first delicate greening. Peepers at the roadside are suddenly quiet. The northward surge of Spring is past us now. Summer flowers are blooming; Canada Mayflowers put on quite a show this year and I found my first blooming Starflower (but the photo was awful!) Birds … Continue reading Today→
Longish bills, pale bellies, dark wings, chunky birds… um… um… dowitchers? I really have no clue and know better what they’re not, which doesn’t help much. St Marks NWR held a fair number of shorebirds which I mostly ignored in favor of the ducks – no surprise there! Shorebirds are just baffling and I’m almost … Continue reading Bad bird photo of the week→
Were I still a girl scout, these are the badges I might’ve earned so far in life… 😉 Books Family living skills Cyber-girl Write all about it Dollars and sense High on life Camp together Working it out Plants and animals Listening to the past Camera shots Pet care The lure of language From shore … Continue reading Is there a badge for this?→
My plans for the weekend involve a blanket and a book or two. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I’m a committed non-fiction reader; resistant, for whatever reason, to the suspension of reality necessary to enjoy most novels. Sure there’s the occasional story that grabs and … Continue reading Still Alice→
swooning over skimmers contemplating colors for toenails thinking about a perfect day staring at a september sky from the shade of my very favorite lighthouse reading books in bed finding peace in the sweet lullaby of waves outside my window flipping rocks to find nothing underneath but sun-warmed crickets and roly-poly bugs feeling ridiculously happy … Continue reading i’ve been→
Out at Sandy Hook the other day, among the clamshells and bits of drift washed ashore, we found this part of a skull that I imagine belonged to a bird. It’s a duck’s bill, I think. I’m not really even sure which way is up, but the bottom (pictured, I think) has an interesting texture, … Continue reading Know bones?→
I‘m not a cat person, but I suspect they’re more like bunnies than dogs. A well-trained dog can be disciplined with a stern voice, a severe look even. Not so the misbehaving rabbit. How might a sweet little bunny misbehave, you wonder? 😉 I’m not sure what it is that comes over them, but once … Continue reading Punished with kisses→
You know that Wendell Berry poem about despair for the world? I’m trying TV instead. I’m not exactly sure where to find a wood duck at this time of year anyway. Other than its mind-numbing effects, the TV isn’t doing much to make me feel any better. On the one hand, NCIS reruns (more specifically … Continue reading Navel gazing→
I read the sweetest little book by Julia Alvarez yesterday evening… A Cafecito Story: A Story of Love, Coffee, Birds, and Hope. 😉 My coworker Linda, mi pana, is from the Dominican Republic and has been trying to sell me on Julia Alvarez for months. Mostly she writes something like historical fiction that spans the … Continue reading A coffee story→
For terns and their fast wingsand the silvery fish that vanish beneath them. For the little that I haveand less now, even, that you left me with. For the oddly striped and sunblockedand our ritual weekend-wash in the sea. For my booksand your eye that didn’t discern their value. For this memoried vesseland its wealth … Continue reading A doorway into thanks→
Just me rambling about birds, books, bunnies, or whatever!