Archive for the ‘Birds’ Category

A Quiet Moment

Thursday, July 7th, 2005
While working in the garden yesterday I was constantly distracted by our neighborhood hummingbird, the one I’ve been trying to get a decent picture of for over a year now. Of course, every time I had the camera he/she disappeared. Today I decided to combine my meditation practice with picture taking. After about a half [...]

Friends

Sunday, July 10th, 2005
As you already know if you read this blog at all regularly, I tend to be obsessive. So it should come as no great surprise that I’m posting yet another hummingbird photo. I noticed the other day that there is more than one hummingbird in the yard. I know that because I saw one chasing [...]

Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

Saturday, July 30th, 2005
I walked Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge for the first time in years today and had a delightful time, despite sporadic bursts of machine gun fire and thudding booms of artillery pieces drifting across the valley from Ft. Lewis. For a very short time I had a chance to experience this area the way [...]

Soaring

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Old stick-in-the-mud, who could imagine such graceful flight possible?