For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: three.
flight
Tag Archives: flight
lift
I am trying to photograph great blue herons in flight. It is difficult. But when I catch one… what a lift!
For the Daily Prompt: assumption.
wide wings
For Wordless Wednesday.
flight
For the Daily Prompt: premonition.
quick
I have a hummingbird feeder outside my kitchen nook, and a suet feeder too. The suet has been disappearing, but I don’t see birds on it. I wondered if the other birds were sneaking in at twilight, because the hummingbirds will chase larger birds away.
This week I was home for the plumbers on Wednesday. After they left, I looked out the window and there were six small birds perched on the feeder. I rush for my camera and catch four! And through the window. A friend says they are bushtits, which may be right….
uncaptured
On Thanksgiving I tried to capture a shot of one of our neighbor hummingbirds out the window. I have a feeder. They are so fast! Perched one moment and then gone. And yet I like the photograph….
Here is the best capture of this one…. not in focus but look at that red. This hummingbird’s throat looks green or dark from the side. The red is only straight on, flashed, startling and beautiful.
the deer remind me
the deer remind me
the deer are not a metaphor
nor simile
they don’t mean anything
they are in town
because we don’t shoot them
outside the town limits
they are shy
here they cross at the crosswalks
and teach their young
about cars and trucks
the deer remind me
each time I see them
they have no voice
I remember
we think of bambi, gentle
and tragedy of a mother’s death
are deer gentle?
they are strong
fast, we are told hooves can kick
sharp and wound
I sing to deer
when I come across them
almost daily
they look at me
singing, watch me
the deer want to live
as I do too
the deer are not a metaphor
and yet they remind me
to be gentle
and that I am strong
and fleet
and can run when I have to
even when I do not have a voice
