For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: grip.
Beak and claw
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: grip.
A redwing blackbird exchanging calls with me, flashing his colors.
It’s not a flower, is it? But for Cee anyhow.
I think this is a pinon jay. I took this up on the Colorado National Monument on Saturday. I was pretty blind in the sun, but got the shot, after I cropped it. That’s a new bird to me: here.
There were tons of junipers in the Monument and some pinon pines. The junipers look like the winters might be a bit hard, with amazing twisted trunks.

They are happily producing berries anyhow and look way healthier than the ones in town.

The pinon pines and the junipers appear to be the local armchairs for the pinon jays. There was a pair flirting, too.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: armchair.
“Gosh, my feathers need grooming. I feel totally plucky!”
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: plucky.
Precise and punctilious, neat as a pin
Taps at my window, wants to come in.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: punctilious.
I am sitting here watching a great blue heron watch the sunrise. We are both happy.
“The sun comes up
in a coffee cup
waitress please I’ve had enough.”
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: consistent.
Sometimes I am an extrovert
sometimes an introvert
we are all a mix
we all have preferences
which can change with time
and situations
I would go to parties
check the exits
and spend time studying the bookshelves
when I was tired of people
greeting familiar friends on the shelves
and knowing a little more
about my host
I start dancing
meet my spouse
we took dance classes
dance with lots of people
and invented moves
and taught each other
Dance takes balance
paying attention to a partner
sometimes we dance with someone new
Sometimes I am an extrovert
sometimes I am an introvert
and I almost always love to dance
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I took the photograph yesterday through my front window. A bird dance!
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: extrovert.
We love to dance to this rather naughty song. It’s pretty extroverted!
Where does honeymoon come from?
Honeymoon. Perhaps from Hony Moone, Old English for the June full moon, called the Honey Moon or Mead Moon. There are other possible sources.
I took the photograph in June 2022. A crescent, not a full moon, but in the right month.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: honeymoon.
For Judyβs Numbers Game: 128.
I have enough showing up that it can be all beach. Brandt geese out in the early morning.

Let’s look closer at the eagle in the tree. Splotchy feathers, not quite fully mature.

Rocks and logs and sand.

The deer come down too.

A gull in the evening as the light falls.

BLIND WILDERNESS
in front of the garden gate - JezzieG
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Or not, depending on my mood
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain!
An onion has many layers. So have I!
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Some of the creative paths that escaped from my brain!
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Coast-to-coast US bike tour
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imperfect pictures
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