Three Birds

Singing bird

Inquisitive bird

Watchful bird

"Three birds" is a popular term. Of course, there's the Bob Marley song. And it's a trendy name for eating establishments...

** Three Birds Tavern in St. Petersburg, FL

** Three Birds Restaurant in Corning, NY

** Three Little Birds Restaurant, Charleston, SC


And then I came across this (no city listed):

Three Birds would like to thank all the Guests, Staff and Family for their support of the restaurant for the past eight years. As a result of the real estate being sold it was time for the Birds to take Flight.

It was an honor and extremely rewarding to serve such exciting food and drink at our beautiful restaurant. We could not have done it without you!

We will miss everyone and don’t be surprised if you see another Three Birds in the future...

Consider the flowers

Sundance Daisy (Such a fitting name)

So many artists and writers have been influenced by the beauty of flowers:

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. 
~John Ruskin

Blue flax

 I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. 
~Claude Monet

Columbine; remind me of star bursts.

Flowers open every night
across the sky, a breathing peace,
and sudden flame catching.
~ Rumi

Lavender Penstemon

Still, there's always another point of view:

 I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Things to ponder

We nicknamed this cloud, the "Zipper Cloud", although it also looks like a skeletal backbone. (Dragon fossil?)

A little unnerving to find right over your back door. Still, it's amazing how wasps build their nests.

Sometimes words just can't describe the situation....

Missing something?

Locust blossoms at sunset

To get the full effect, click on the photos to enlarge them. The way the blossoms caught the sunset glow was magnifique!

Have a beautiful week.

Feathered follow-up

Remember this post from April? Well, here are the geese families again. Look how much they've grown! 

They fed voraciously in the grass. Snorking along like feathered vacuum cleaners. 

Some of the goslings were lounging on the bank of the pond. The way their necks curve remind me of flamingos. 

Speaking of necks; check out the "neck action" of the adults. 

After a few final morsels, it was time to move on. 

An eclectic collection

The season for tulips is winding down as the weather turns toward summer. 

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"  -- although I don't think this is quite what King Richard had in mind. 

"Ya better watch how you talk/ or where you walk/ or you and your homies might be lined in chalk!"  
—Coolio, "Gangsta's Paradise" 

Actually, I learned investigators rarely use chalk outlines; it's more a Hollywood thing. 

As you go into Monday, imagine sitting in this chair, sipping your favorite beverage and looking out over the creek that runs below.  
(And no, this is not where I live....) 

Have a good week. 

About dogwoods

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. 
~John Burroughs 

The poetry of the earth is never dead. 
~John Keats

April showers bring flowers

Tulip "lanterns"? 

Blossoms on trees remind me of lace. 

Such a lovely shade of blue. Clusters of tiny bells, "ringing" as they sway in the wind. 

"Sunburst" daffodils. 

Wishing you a sunny week.

A goose tale -- for Earth Day

During our walk today, we spied a family of geese in the stream. 

"What do you think, Dear? Should we get out here?"   

Meanwhile, another family of geese swims into view. 

The first family has made their decision and is on the move. 

"I dunno, are you sure we should leave? That stream was pretty nice..." 

"Okay, then, here we go! I hope no cars are coming."   

 

By now, the second family is crossing the road, hurrying to catch up with the first family. This goose couple doesn't "consult"; you can tell the one leading is in charge. 

And cars, bicyclists, and walkers all stopped to watch the families as they made their way across the road to a nearby pond. The water is always better on the other side, you know.

Sunsets & shadows

Downtown Boise at sunset, looking down Capitol Boulevard.

Magnificent evening light.... 

Medusa's "hair", branchings of arteries. neural pathways... 
What do you see?

Light of Spring

In the beginning there was nothing.  God said, "Let there be light!"  And there was light.  There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. 
~ Ellen DeGeneres 

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. 
 ~ Ben Sweetland  

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. 
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As seen during a walk

A pair of swans have been hanging out here lately. But I have yet to see them together. They stay on opposite sides of the pond. 

Water globes, micro-worlds.  

From a season past... 

to the season present.