Tag: life
group name: naturelovers
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June 06, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
frayed strands of my heart
are played
with life's gentlest bow
the cooing
of a mourning dove
echoes my grief
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May 12, 2008 03:17 PM EDT --
Taken May 9th 2008 these birds blend in with the foilage of my flowering plum.
I get House Finches, Purple Finches, and Cassins Finches at my feeder. The Purple is a heavier looking bird than . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
Usually, I don’t watch the nightly news, because I prefer to go to bed feeling like the world isn’t going to hell in a hand bag. I changed my routine Friday night . . . more
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April 16, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
Saturday Morning
While I have often enjoyed the anticipation and planning of a road trip, whether a half-day spent close to home or a two-month cross-country jaunt, there are other times I prefer . . . more
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February 29, 2008 12:39 PM EST --
I was so please when I noiticed the Sellers Jays showing up for their peanuts. I quickly grabbed my camera, blanket, and my coffee. To take some pictures. Usualy they aren't very shy and I can . . . more
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June 25, 2008 12:52 PM EDT --
I am often amused by the antics of the birds I watch. Even the adults can be funny. The male gold finches when they fight it sounds like the battle of the squeaky toys. I watched a pair of them on my . . . more
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January 06, 2007 12:05 AM EST --
Suddenly, slowly, a sick and sad feeling, impossibly seething, enters my mind
Remains of December lay dying in embers, a winter unkind.
The sweet times remembered have now just surrendered, the . . . more
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February 10, 2008 02:43 PM EST --
No, No it's the Red Winged Blackbirds, but only the males. They arrive before the females to choose the best territory.
It is spelled Fiorito ( I have been misspelling it for sometime . . . more
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November 18, 2007 09:19 AM EST --
Holiday Wish.
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April 01, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
Silly poems have their place at times. They illuminate the ridiculousness of a day gone awry and remind us that life is not always "a bowl of cherries." Laughter is medicine to the soul---especially . . . more
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December 06, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
In a sense of solidarity, I recently bought three books by fellow published Gather authors. As I have learned, writing the manuscript, getting it accepted and then published, and the whole editing process . . . more
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March 07, 2008 05:54 PM EST --
My brother-in-law went home early so I got to go spend the night at Fiorito Pond, and my old cat was taken care of too. I was ready to spend the night in the great outdoors. Do a little catch and release . . . more
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March 24, 2008 04:28 PM EDT --
Just thinking about how much I love the outdoors. The smells the sights, all of my senses relaxed and calm. I fell like I belong to this world, the natural one. When I was in my thirties I . . . more
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May 12, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
After my 55 minute workout I took a 25 minute walk at Matoon Pond here in Ellensburg, Washington. I guess I won't worry about my hour a day being active today.
Any who I took pictures and since . . . more
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June 04, 2008 05:49 PM EDT --
Wouldn't ya know it , the little buggers show up when I'm inside. So all photos are taken through the window and two of them through the screen. Otherwise they would have just flown off as soon . . . more
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November 21, 2006 11:23 PM EST --
A seed, I began
A shoot I became
Love, nurturing---life
Roots develop over time
Some entangling one another in confusion
Some decisively independent
Each represent a path of my life
Taller I stand . . . more
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December 03, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
It's all about choice.
There will always be stairs we need to climb that we know not where they lead.
The roads we must travel are the same . . . more
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October 27, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
"WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?"
Think...what do you believe, deep down inside, but can not prove beyond a reasonable doubt to others?
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June 01, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
Sitting out on my back deck, the birds have become less afriad of me and my camera. They have paired off now and I have even had some fledglings at the feeder. In fact one almost landed on me as I took . . . more
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March 27, 2008 11:34 AM EDT --
Yesterday I Met an Iguana
It's not everyday you meet an iguana, even here on the Mexican border. Yesterday I took my collections of aluminum cans, beer bottles, (other people's, not mine!) . . . more
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