Dressed for a wedding?
Something old: Photo from New Year’s Eve
This is the biggest bird in the swamp. Oddly a few days before we took the swamp tour, Tara photographed a Great Blue Heron in the drainage ditches in her neighborhood. The environmental movement has brought back a lot of birds. This guy just stood off in the stand of trees and watched us go by as he continued to fish. Humans mostly act the same!
Something new:
What’s running through my head tonight as I hurry off to a Lenten Wednesday gathering is something about proceletyzing. How much are you allowed to advocate for something you believe? What are the rules for polite company? For a blog? And I’m not talking formal religion, but our fundamental beliefs. These are about as hard to change as religion. We see the whole world filtered through our map of the world and the meaning of our little lives on this blue marble of a planet. How much of that stuff is important to share once you get past dormitory all nighters? Those were hazed in booze and smoke, legal or ill. That made anything you wanted to say fair game. No one noticed just how stupid you were, as they were busy being just as stupid. But approaching the advanced know-it-all position of dotage, surely I should be able to articulate, both the foundational beliefs and how I came to them.
Something borrowed:
The assasination story gets stranger and stranger.
Murder most incorrect! Europeans are not following the trail… back to Egypt or Jordan???!
Read and follow links to your heart’s content. Or maybe this story doesn’t grab your inner John Carre.
Something blue… there’s that Heron again!
March 4th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Glad you found the heron. It was worth the wait!
March 4th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Definitely worth the wait. But the second picture did not come through. I’m guessing that it is a different shot of the same heron.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
What swamp is shown in the picture?
March 5th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I like the blues and green ,the bird looks magestic.The closest I been to a bird was here in seattle when an american eagle almost land on the front of my car winshield..that was quiet an experience..keep your camera ready all the time.I wish I could have one that time.