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Rainy Day At The River

At this instant there are viewers from the U/S.,..Germany, Canada and Ireland

and I am sipping a nice wee dram of The Quiet Man (an eight year old Irish single malt that is smooth, tasty, and easy on the brow) as I make the same soup I always make - but one that like life is always different -  what I sometimes call Steve's Pretty Good Vegetable Soup that contains as many vegetables as we might have on hand but always onion, potato, carrot, green pepper (but today red), broccoli, lima beans, peas, two kinds of potato by the way, garlic, small bottle of beer, various spices but in particular lots of basil, a bit of hot sauce, mushrooms, green beans, and etc - 

Not Today - but the library adjoins a stretch of wood that goes to the river where I watch the eagles nest

Hyacinth - on the way in from the sodden leaf piles smolering with smoke and water vapour billowing about in the slight flow of breeze I spy the vivid blue that lights up this sodden day

CO2 - Rain is moving in this evening so for old times sake I burn a few small piles of leaves to see and smell that old old smell of autumn (only now it is spring)

On The Nest

Down River - Lower Town of North East Along The Bank

 

the lower photograph shows the upper center of the first photo, emphasizing the church and other visible buildings

Eagle Walk in the sun

the eagles nest is in the very center of the photo

 

there is something keeping one of the eagles there - and I think it is the small hatchlings

In Bloom

Detail

Weysiede

From The Basement Window

Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias - Treed 2

Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias - Treed

Eagle Returning To Nest -

The returning eagle landed on a limb (perhaps to eye-ball my lumbering approach) and seemingly watched his/her mate at the nest whom to me seemed to be feeding a young hatch-ling (supposition as I did not distinctly see a young bird)

Itty Bitty Spring Flower

Library Tree

- well technically it is probably a line tree (status obscure) but I admire it every trip in for wi-fi

- and the light came in filtering away darkness from the task of life

Snag

A new day with new light to see the world around me

Out of the corner of my eye

Is it modern science just abandoned in the leaves

Rotogravure

Ubuntu !!

Still about 1/3 cord of good oak firewood to go (not counting that downed scrub pine

If I was into puns I might have called this post "Heart Wood"

Firewood - II

Firewood

Starting on the second oak - the chain saw is running while I stop to snap a quick photograph or so

Vagabond's House - with thanks to poet Don Blanding

......

For I’ll have good friends who can sit and chat
Or simply sit, when it comes to that,
By the fireplace where the fir logs blaze
And the smoke rolls up in a weaving haze.
I’ll want a wood box, scarred and rough
For leaves and bark and odorous stuff,
Like resinous knots and cones and gums,
To toss on the flames when winter comes.
And I hope a cricket will stay around,
For I love it’s creaky lonesome sound.

Pink Floyds

from the internet

Stendhal

Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias 22Mar'17 5.

Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias 22Mar'17 4.

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Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias 22Mar'17 2

Great Blue Heron, Árdea heródias 1.

Random Damage - II