Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
One Woman's Quest II 
Wow! Lovely captures…
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Thanks.
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VJ, you captured the young osprey well. I don’t think I have seen one in a still photo. Keith
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Thanks Keith. He didn’t sit still for long – had to do a bit of tailing before catching him unaware.
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Fabulous! You Nailed It! Is that a red-shouldered hawk in the top photo? Looks like it might be large enough to be red-tailed hawk but I couldn’t make out the tail. 🙂
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It’s a red-tailed hawk. They are common here, and not good posers, lol.
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Wow, these are great!!
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Thanks Liz.
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You’re welcome, V.J.
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Awesome shots!
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Thank you!
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What a beauty! 🙂
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Thank
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Magnificent!
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Thank you!
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