Author: VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

Recent Encounters Of The Bird Kind

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A robin building her nest, an osprey with his dinner, a goldfinch and a red-bellied woodpecker guarding the nest. For Bird Weekly challenge: birds seen in the past two weeks.

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Close Enough

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For Cee’s Midweek Madness: Macro or closeup

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That Face!

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(For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: That Face!)

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VJ’s Weekly Challenge: nesting

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“Grandma, I had a great day at school! We learned about birds!” Four-year-old August is as passionate about birds as I am. “What did you learn?” I ask. “Birds will use just about anything to build their nests, even shoe laces.” Her eyes are wide and her expression radiates amusement. Every morning this week, a […]

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Words To Guide Me

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Mother I feel you under my feet… Mother I hear your heartbeat… Mother I see you when the eagle flies… Mother please take me higher… Lens-artists Photo Challenge this week is a ‘you pick’. Reena’s Xploration challenge is a sentence to be used at the end of the post. I am indeed challenged by Reena’s […]

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Last of March

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Last of March, camera and cell photos for Bushboy’s challenge.

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