Sunday, November 3, 2024

BRAVE BIRDS.....

"God is in the small details: in the simplicity of a bird's song, in the serene dawn, or in the first autumn leaf falling..." - Animal wised

                                    "Hold onto dreams......." - Langston Hughes

Stellar Jays, hogging the birdbath...

"More beautiful than the song of birds are their flights. Not every song is of joy, but every flight is of freedom...." -Mario Quintana

      Finch sinking his head into his feathers, being brave against the rain...




(Brave Hum  Hum in the twilight)

"Better than the sound of silence, only the singing of birds....."
-Aerton Guimares
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and SINGS  when the dawn is still dark.." - R. Tagore
Juncos.... buried in the Katura Tree leaves, hiding from  the rain.............

Flicker pauses in a rat- a- tat- tat moment...

"My wish is to stay like this forever...to live peacefully in a corner of nature...." -Claude Monet


     "Look at the birds of the air..." - Matthew 6:26

Flicker eats and eats and eats eats....while a Towhee ( minus its tail) gets away ( and lives to tell the tale!) from the clutches  of  neighbourhood  cats. Towhee hops and flies and swings around the trees, giggling at the cats below...very brave...


"Soar on wings like eagles. Run and not grow weary....." -Isaiah 40:31
"Nature always wears the colour of the spirit...." -Emerson
"Birds were not designed just to be beautiful jewels of the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven." -Suzy Kassem

Stellar Jays gobbling as many 
seeds as they can......they do NOT like sharing...

"Be as the bird perched on a frail branch, she feels bending beneath her. Still she sings all the same, knowing she has wings...." -Victor Hugo

 "I wake up every morning, FREE as a bird.." - Ashley Cole

"Tomorrow the birds will sing.  Be brave. face LIFE.." - Charlie Chaplin
                                 (Another Towhee with its tail intact.......happy and brave.... )

Photographs 2024


Tuesday, October 29, 2024

HALLOWEEN COSTUME 2024--Marie Antoinette

MORGAN's 2024 HALLOWEEN Costume.................

                                 Marie Antoinette

                                                        French Rococo style.

All sewn with fabric from the sewing room, champagne and silver grey satin, with over 200 feet of lace trim..............
50 feet of pearl trim, fabric flowers, ribbons found online and in storage....some  were in boxes downstairs for over two years.........
                         "We had a beautiful dream....." - Marie Antoinette
..... ruffles, ruffles, ruffles......two days to make the actual ruffles  out of satin and lace. The pattern for this costume,  was  from Simplicity  purchased online, a few years ago.





"I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all......" -Marie Antonette

"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.." -Marie Antonette
Comfortable and stylish, for any chore on the palace grounds.



The hat is  made from a cereal box, not usually readily available in Rococo times.  This one is glued with flowers, pearls, trims, feathers .....held on with a wide satin ribbon.

"It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not....." - Marie Antoinette
The train has a few snaps that can bustle up while working....fashionable, lightweight....suitable  for a walk in a garden...or feeding the birds.
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"I wish you good morning.....I shall never say goodbye..." 

                                                                            - Marie Antoinette


 Photographs 2024

Thursday, October 24, 2024

GO FROM ME....

      "I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers..." - L.M.Montgomery

       FROM SUNSET to STAR RISE..( Christina Rossetti 1830-1894)
Go from me, summer friends and tarry not
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold...
A silly sheep, beknighted from the fold
A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot
Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot
Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold
Lest you with me will shiver on the wold
Athirst and hungering on a barren spot
For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the hedge
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back
My heart goes sighing............
After Swallows flown.......
On some time's summer's returning track


*Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers,  sister of  artist/ poet Dante Rossetti. 
Photographs 2024