Tag Archives: birds

Nature’s Alarm Clock: Morning Matins

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Morning Matins

Birds of diverse attitudes
join voice to sing beatitudes.
The stodgiest cannot refrain
from joining every day again—
unrepentant in their choices,
upon awakening, to join voices.
This reunion stirs the world.
Squirrels in their burrows tightly curled,
unwind to greet the light of day
as inch by inch it lifts its ray.
The donkey lifts its voice to bray
and chickens, as they strain to lay,
raise their clucks to join the chorus,
the world’s alarm clock sounding for us.
The whole world wakening, bit by bit,
prompting us all to wake with it.

 

Prompts today are: stodgy, beatitude, inch and reunion. And yes, I know that’s a rooster, not a chicken, but although they didn’t make the poem, roosters are the best alarm of all.

Feed the Birds, for CFFC’s Feathered Friends

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For CFFC: Feathers

Aloe Vera with Hummingbird: FOTD Jan 10

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Aloe Bloom with Diner

i took dozens of blurry photos before this tiny hummingbird decided to just sit down to dine.  This aloe vera on the patio outside the room where my desk is has afforded me so many wonderful views of hummingbirds. Better than having an inside bouquet any day.

For Cee’s FOTD

Men in Trees

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Men in Trees

If you took an expedition to my favorite tree,
you’d find it’s convoluted as a tree can be.
It’s encrusted with lichen, but I’ve found that for a fee
an ornamental arborist can scrape it lichen-free.
They’ll do artful jobs of trimming off the deadwood if they’re hired
   by removing extra branches that look too dried-out and tired.

And if those earmarked branches contain nests of birds, perchance,
I’ve heard the trimmers merely move them to another branch.
In defense of ecology, no single squirrel has died
in this trimming of the branches, for they are safe inside,
nestled most securely with their babies and their kin,
thankful for the tree hollows that they take shelter in.

Prompt words today are lichen, convoluted, expedition, defense, and tired.

Wildlife Close To Home

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Snails can wreak havoc with flowers and leaves.

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For Lens Artists Challenge, Wildlife Close to Home

Flights of Fancy

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Finally airbound.

 

For Lens Artists Challenge: Flights of Fancy

“Fleeting Moments” For Sunday Stills

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Fleeting Moments are built into nature as they are into our lives. Be they beautiful memories, unbelievable experiences or disastrous events, they come and they go–often too quickly. Many would be forgotten were it not for the click of a lens. Here are some of mine.

For Sunday Stills “Fleeting Moments.”

Candid Camera

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These photos were taken within a 30 minute period when I was in the pool very early Thursday morning. and started when all three dogs came up at the same time vying for my attention. Some of the photos definitely need to be enlarged to see them adequately. To enlarge photos, just click on them.

for CBWC Candid photos prompt

CFFC Birds, Sept 27, 2022

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Oriole
I never have been able to figure out what was sticking out of this gull’s head.
Transcience

For CFFC Birds

CFFC: Nature’s Beauty

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and up.

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For this prompt: https://ceenphotography.com/2022/08/02/cffc-reminds-you-of-natures-beauty/