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 
Cute photos!!
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Thank you!
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These are incredible shots of the Blue Jays! Wozzer! Love them both, but the black & whites came out killer! 🙂
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Thanks Lisa.
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🙂
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Great images of those Blue Jays .they love peanuts.
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They sure do! Thanks.
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I really like both photos. It must be tricky for the birds to maneuver the peanuts out of the feeder.
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Makes for a great show, but it only lasts 20 minutes before all the peanuts are gone.
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There must be some huge peanut stockpile somewhere!
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Ha ha. There is.
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I love the jays. Beautiful photos!
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Thanks. Their colour really is fabulous.
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These are great V.J.! That first one is a perfectly captured shot! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks Deborah.
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