For the Birds
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
Robert Wilson Lynd
seagulls vying for a spot on the top of a lifeguard tower
A mockingbird between songs
Crow trying to out-sing the wind
Morning Coffee
Above me
The mourning dove sings,
the gulls cry out,
the mockingbird proudly
practices drills -
all of them
Unbothered by the disapproving
Clucks and coos of pigeons
Circling on the pavement below .
The herons mind their
Business, not making a sound
Or even acknowledging me
As an egret with a neck so thin
It can barely support his head
Picks his way silently
through the tall grass
And oh- here comes the crow;
my familiar friend
Calling on the wind
reminding me
everywhere i go
I am still home
Night heron watching the water at the marina
Great blue heron on top of the world
a tense green heron fishing
At the edge of the ocean, a crow walked beside me for awhile
A great egret gathering food from the tall grass in the park
Crow flying off a lifeguard tower
The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
Carly Simon
Coming from the quiet snowy retreat of my little house in Michigan to bright and noisy Miami Beach was a little bit of a shock to my system. I woke up the entire first week not knowing where I was. But after the initial adjustment, I found my routine here again and more importantly, where to go to be quiet and talk to the birds over morning coffee.
Thank you so much for being here! I will see you soon!
Seagulls watching sunrise
December Trails
If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?
Raffi
Through the looking glass
A symmetry of turtles
(Tyler State Park, Texas)
a long dock leads
to an imaginary lake
Giants in ballroom dresses
Loom over the park
Lake Bistineau, Louisiana
Blue hour on the bayou
a great beauty in the distance
a small one close at hand
stillness reigns
(Davis Bayou Region, Gulf Islands National Seashore)
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Matsuo Basho
I hope you all had wonderful holidays! I’ll keep this short so you (and I) can get back to your year end celebrations.
Thank you so much for being here. See you again soon!
seagulls and pelicans reclaim a hurricane battered pier
Summer's Ghost
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.
Henry Rollins
It comes
Floating,
Flying,
Fading,
Furling:
flowering.
It comes.
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander Theroux
This September so sweet and summery, is nature’s sleight of hand - but fall is still showing signs.
I got a little off-schedule with this, preparing for my first book binding workshop, which was yesterday (Saturday, September 28).
I will be back twice in October. That may become my normal schedule- 2 Fridays a month.
Thank you so much for being here!
Harvest Super Moon