Spring is here! I heard this rustling outside my window this afternoon and when I opened the blinds, I saw flocks of Robins and Cedar Waxwings on our trees, feasting on the berries and little cones. Boy, can they party!
Category: Brief Messages or Announcements
Soaring Bird in the Neighborhood
This afternoon after we returned home after lunch out, I got a picture of what could have been the bird that made off with a mouthful of house finch chicks last month.
I don’t know why I didn’t draw up the window blind when I first heard the sound of what reminded me of a bed sheet flapping in a high wind a month ago.
When I finally did crack the blind, I saw the huge, black bird with what seemed like a wingspan as long as my leg beating those wings mightily at the air to stay aloft as it plucked the baby birds from the tree.
It was fast as lightning and the theft was done so quickly, I had no time to be more than a witness.
I vowed not to go pawing into trees anymore looking for bird nests just to get snapshots. I think I gave the big predatory bird, whether crow or turkey vulture or whatever it was a visual cue to where its prey lay helpless.
Gerber Daisies
Just a short post on the Gerbera Daisy (common name Gerber). Sena planted it in our garden recently and it is firetruck red. They symbolize innocence, purity, and, most of all, cheerfulness.
When I need a little cheering up, I just look at the Gerber Daisies.
Don’t Panic
Well, this is not the usual post. It’s just a message that I’ve been watching the Iowa severe weather reports. I’ve just come up from the basement because the Tornado Warning for our area has expired. Don’t panic.
Now it’s just a severe thunderstorm warning with the possibility for 60 mph wind–nothing really.
The Don’t Panic image is just the back cover of “The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams.
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