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 
STUNNING shots! 👌
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Thank you 😊
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That last photo was startling. The heron was on parade.
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Lol. Thanks.
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Stunning shots, VJ!
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Thanks 😊
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Talk about a size difference! I particularly like the last photo with the leaping red-winged blackbird. I wonder where he is headed.
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He’s headed for the heron. I looked away and then up again, and the heron was gone. Blackbird won the match.
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Size isn’t all that matters! 🙂
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Lol.
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Amazing pics!
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Thanks
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My pleasure.
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Wonderful! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks 🙏
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Ahhh! You clearly were watching the right stage – GREAT sequence!
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It was the heron in the tree that caught my eye, and made me pull over. The blackbird turned out to make the show. Thanks Jazz.
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Wow!
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Haha – just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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I hope you have framed the sequence or submitted it to some birding magazine!
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Didn’t think of it really. Thanks for the idea
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You’re welcome!
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Love the photos VJ!
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Thanks Aletta.
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These are great photos, and I love your captions!! 😀
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Lol. I didn’t realize my captions showed up. Thanks.
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