Archive for the ‘Mary Oliver’ Category

Great Hopping Horn Toads

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
I was about to finish my fourth straight trip to Nisqually National Refuge and was thinking that I certainly hadn’t seen many birds today, and, had, in fact, had finally resorted to taking more pictures of Giant Blue Herons. However, while talking to a couple from the mid-West they informed that there was a Giant Horned [...]

Mary Oliver’s “Messenger”

Saturday, September 20th, 2008
“Messenger” is the first poem in Mary Oliver’s Thirst and I loved it on first reading. Still I was hoping that I would find another poem that I loved more. Heck, I would have preferred that the volume end with the best poem rather than begin with it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find [...]