POTATOE CHIP BIRDS

         "Yellow is capable of charming God..." -Vincent van Gogh

American Goldfinches. Back for a day. Just one. To feed. To call out to each other.  They  sound like they're  chirping " Po-ta-Toe-CHIPPPP".  The Potatoe Chip birds.

Vegans all the way. Naughty Cowbirds will lay their eggs in their nests sometimes.  Goldfinches are pretty cool about it.  But even though  baby cowbirds won't survive on just seeds,  the finches will gladly stuff them with sunflower seeds, along with their own brood.

Some live as long as ten years.....

A swarm of them passed through here,about two years ago. Then this year. Once again. Saw bright canary yellow. Heard  their call....

Just passing through. One day only . I might of missed them. One day to  eat. .......... "Po-ta-toe-CHIPPPP"....

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer...." -Maya Angelou

"A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world’s.”-Rainer Maria Rilke

"May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secret of living.." - e.e. cummings.

Spider webs. Woven. Into nest. Minute tiny homes. 

And call out "Po-ta-toe- CHIPPPPP" as many hours as are in the day.

"I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing..." Richard Peck

Keep your ears pealed....... "Po-ta-toe-CHIPPPPP". They'll be  passing through......just passing through....

"I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine..." -Sebastian Faulks

Photographs 2024

 

The Rose One.....

 

 

THE ROSE by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

The lily has a smooth stalk

Will never hurt  your hand

But the rose upon her brier

Is lady of the land....

there's sweetness in an apple tree

And profit in the corn

But lady of all beauty

Is a rose upon a thorn

When with moss and honey

She tips her bending brier

And half unfolds her glowing  heart

She sets the world on fire


                                                   

Photographs 2024

FEARTHAINN (rain)

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water..." -Loren Eisley

                       "Arise my soul and shed the rain of tears..." -Andrew of Crete

"And all the air is filled with the pleasant noise of waters.." - Longfellow

                            "Drip, drip the rain comes falling..." -James Herbert

                                "Let the rain sing you a lullaby.."-Langston Hughes

"All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers..." -Alexander Pope

"I hear the first drops.....the rain changes everything.." -Karen Hughes

"We knew it would rain, for the white poplars showed...is tangled now in tremulous rain..." -Aldrich

                 "The rain comes when the wind calls..." -Emerson

                              "Joy has been a habit. Now this  rain..." -Jack Gilbert

"A little rain will fill the lily's cup, which hardly moistens the field.." 

                                                                         - Edwin Arnold

"He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven..." -Acts14:17

"A wind has blown the rain away...." -e.e. cummings

"You heavens above,  rain down.Let the clouds shower it down.." 

                                                            -Isaiah 45:8

              "Healing rain is a real touch from God...." - Michael W. Smith

"And out of the caverns of rain, like a ghost from tomb, I arise and build it again.." -Shelley

"Rain, soft rain, summer rain whispers from bushes, whispers from trees..." -Hermann Hesse

"The mighty Rain, holds the vast empire of the sky alone..." 

                                                             - William C. Bryant

"....but the rain is full of ghosts tonight..." -Edna St. Millay

Photographs 2024