He loves her. He really loves her.
It’s a rainy date, but you make the most of it. First, they did what the birds and the bees do, then he spent a good half-hour grooming her, in the rain. “Honey, your plumage is irresistible, I tell you…”
Clouds that inhabit the sky
I am building a sky gallery. These are some samples.
All these photos were taken on Saturna Island, in BC.
A view of the big sky, from the top of the mountain.
On a brisk late summer day, when the wind ripped the clouds into patterns…
From the water, on a boat, looking up… puffy clouds everywhere.
Storm clouds on the horizon, to the North West…
And just before sunset, all the cloud action can become Turneresque…
Autumn Sky
by Charles Simic
In my great grandmother’s time,
All one needed was a broom
To get to see places
And give the geese a chase in the sky.•
The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.•
Oh Cynthia,
Take a clock that has lost its hands
For a ride.
Get me a room at Hotel Eternity
Where Time likes to stop now and then.•
Come, lovers of dark corners,
The sky says,
And sit in one of my dark corners.
There are tasty little zeroes
In the peanut dish tonight.
Jour du Souvenir
In Flanders’ Fields, poem written by Canadian army surgeon John McCrae, at Ypres, May 1915.
Water Creatures
Around the island, lots of water creatures swim about.
Sometimes, they hang around in groups, like the river otter clan in the header, above.
And they also live quiet single lives.
“You talking to me?”
Here is another shot of the East Point otter clan:
And during the fall and winter, sea lions also hang out – with bald eagles – on Boiling Reef, at the tip of East Point, Saturna Island.
Here they are, with Bellingham, WA, in the background.
Jazzy Tug Silhouette – Photo Wednesday
A tug is pulling a log boom (a raft of floating logs, recently cut). Up and down the sound it goes, very slowly, killing time.
This is one of those “just because” photos, showing the traffic in front of my house.