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Education!

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Wouldn't you know it?  Now, everybody wants to learn!!

Robino Teaches Ounce to Sit Still

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We know how impetuous my sparrow Ounce is, especially near water, and I thought Robino might teach a few modeling methods..  You know it takes concentration and discipline to be a good model, and Robino has been mastering poses for months.  I was so excited when I saw the results of my experiment! However, you can imagine my surprise when I got a little closer and saw that both of them were distinctly damp!   It seems that Ounce has also taught Robino a thing or two. Robino and Ounce in te English Garden

New York Bluejay

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New York Bluejay, 94th Street West of Madison Avenue

Robin Robino Reveals his New Spring Poses

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Robino has been practicing his modeling and posing  for an entire year,  and look what determination has accomplished!  Not only has Robino mastered the art of calm and beautiful sitting, he has also learned to appear only in the most concordant settings to complement his beautiful colors. 

A Snowy Foot-printed Path

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I crossed this snowy foot-printed path and I followed along for a ways. I’ve seen a few trails and tales of grails so I thought that one of these days I’d follow the scent just see where they went and to fend off my certain malaise. They leapt and skipped and galloped and still I scampered along with an icy thrill, when at once they ceased with a swirl in the snow. What destiny fell them, I’ll never know. I conceived a great leap to foil a hawk a hidden burrow a sheltering rock-- Still now and then when we walk that way I pause at the spot and remember the day When that prescient malaise began fading away

Freedom

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 Freedom breaking after the winter storm   Over the Central Park Reservoir

Late Afternoon, Boxing Day

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Our Magic Tree waits in the snow for the dark sparrows to feed

Rejoice

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Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection 59 East Second Street, New York, NY 10003 info@nycathedral.org

Let's Play Let's Pretend

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I have an idea Would you like to play? No special rules, it’s a game called today We’ll meet at the farm by the cottonwood tree Bring a basket along; it’s all right with me There are raspberries up in the canyon they say We can take the old path though it’s out of the way I’ll hide and you seek, I’ll give you a clue If you find the old mill I’ll be waiting for you. We can’t wait too long for the time to be right Tomorrow is already stalking tonight.   Waiting Bird hiding in a camouflage of patterns

Dinner at the Silver Pie-Tin Restaurant

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He told me he'd be here by now!  I hope he isn't caught in that pressure inversion over the interstate.

Bamboo Water Bird

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Here's Ounce once again, trying to hide behind a reservoir leaf.  It is not easy to catch a glimpse of a little Ounce determined to hide.  Ounce knows he ought not to go too near large bodies of water, because he (or she) cannot swim!    Reservoir, September 2010

Ticket Stubs and Scrapbook Fodder

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I've hijacked a few rides in my day along the highways and truck stops, through the fields of winter wheat and sugar beets. I've hooked into the next idea to soothe a restless mind, slogging through the netherworld of iso-pragmeroticism. A new galaxy is just the trick I thought, and hitched my wagon to a star. Oh, what fresh galactic air! There is no substitute, but the time did come, as it so often does. I had a hard time by the tail then, for a year or so, but when the climate changed,  I climbed aboard a magic carpet heading East. Oh, what exhilarating, spicy clangy saffron nights among the weavy symbolism. And still I cannot resist a fetching invitation to a far off land, for look what I have found among the ticket stubs and scrapbook fodder. India:  Ramana Athreya Confirms a New  Bird Species   Liocichla Bugunorum 2006 (Reuters)

Sated Raptor

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How does one know their raptor is comfortably full? a.  Raptor is not turning in the widening gyre. b.  Raptor is sitting quietly, close to the ground. c.  Raptor is not diving towards a small alive thing at 200 miles per hour. d.  All of the above. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, July 30, 2010 (lj calloway as usual)

Toes Goes to the Met

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Pretty Pigeon may be a little Monster Pigeon out for its  first walk on cobblestones.  We don't know for sure, but maybe .  Some people slander pigeons, simply because one ought to avoid pigeon droppings, and take care cleaning them up.  Well, certainly do not stand under Monster Pigeon.   As often happens, however, Human people go over the nest about Pigeon people, using terms like the Pigeon Menace.  Menace?  "To threaten with evil..." ?  Not Toes! Toes is simply going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Soiree!  See how nicely she (or he) is dressed?

Two Dimensions

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OK, perhaps I am not the best at wildlife photography, but I have waited long and hard for a clear view of Silhouette, and now I have it. You know how it often goes, the light is wrong, the subject doesn't wish to stay still, or some other something intervenes . I have finally understood that Silhouette simply chooses to remain two dimensional!

White Feather with Snow Drop

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I almost missed it, pre-occupied as I was. . Nothing fast enough for me! Right, left, scratch and skid. Damn snow. Who's in charge, and where's the salt? I have some thoughts to mull about and very little time. Move over! I hunkered at the corner curb to watch my step, and in that pause, I paid attention.  And look what I got for my money.

Shhhhh, Listen!

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Crestone Colorado lies up against the Sangre De Cristo Mountains on the Eastern side of the San Luis Valley. The quiet capatures reality. I’m a Westerner by birth and a City dweller by happenstance. In a quiet place, nature listens. Deer Listening at a Window Junco Listening for a seed

The Fall Buffle Heads

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There are times when I cannot maneuver anymore and can’t think what to do. It comes and goes, thank goodness. I have an old friend. Time goes by without a word, then bang! There we are, back in the youth of memory. So what I do is pause. Fall is a time for the beauty of transition.  It flares and sparks and smolders away-- quietly, slowly, leaf by leaf.

It's done! (Maybe)

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It's hard to resist a catalog picture, even though we know it's all for show and doesn't tell the truth.  B ut wait until we find out own tulips, or somebody elses if ours somehow don't appear.  Then we'll know what a REAL tulip looks like.  Or maybe a real sparrow.