Feathers of White

February 27, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Featured image is two of the locals. The male Goldeneye and Common Merganser look as if they are dressed up in evening attire. A White-breasted nuthatch enjoying a nibble. All for Bird Weekly, this week’s challenge: birds with white feathers.

Feathered Motion

February 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: motion

‘D’ Bird

February 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Downy Woodpecker, Morning Doves, Mallard Ducks. Bird Weekly challenge: birds that start with letter d.

A Suitable Perch

January 30, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An array of wire and fence sitters for Bird Weekly Challenge: Flycatcher, Junco, Kingfisher, Eastern Kingbird, Swallows – at least these are my best guesses, lol.

Brown is the New Black

January 23, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Bird Weekly challenge: birds with brown feathers. Featured is a Chipping Sparrow

Butt End

January 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A Dark-eyed junco and a Downy woodpecker for Bird Weekly’s challenge.

A Closer Look

January 12, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: It’s a Small World. Note: I do not have micro or macro capacity, so I have to settle for zooming in where possible.)

We All Start With ‘C’

January 8, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A cardinal, Common merganser, covy of Common redpoll, a chickadee. For Bird Weekly’s challenge: birds that start with ‘c’.

Wordless Wednesday

January 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wing Envy

January 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bird Weekly challenge is to post photos of birds with long wingspans. Our larger birds have flown south for the winter, but the birds of prey remain, and of course, the Canada geese.

Crisis

How did undocumented –a civil infraction –reduce people to ‘bodies’? And how did empathy –observation and support –merit death by gunshot? When we stretch for explanations –to fit the violent rhetoric –are we too not complicit in crime? Red, blue, it’s all intolerable –the global stage is watching –a nation in rapid decline. “He’ll burn […]

Winter’s Ruse

Poet’s Quandry

IfI wereto writeevery dayfor onehundred days,would my soulbe purged ofthis malaise;is it a thingto be dredged,dragged up –twistedand tiedlike tatteredbed sheetsknottedtogether;is therea remedyfor thisscourge;or is thisan inherentrestlessness,a fiery bluespark of eternalangst ignitingpassion – a callto write? (Originally posted February, 2017. Image my own)