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here is a guide to baltimore and other orioles' identification:
click to enlarge
some vids from last year: (updating by request)
A female Oriole listens as a male woos her. 2) The male; watch his throat. 3. The male gives his feeder to the female. click on vid 2X to view at youtube larger.
here is a guide to baltimore and other orioles identification:
click to enlarge
some vids from last year: (updating by request)
A female Oriole listens as a male woos her. 2) The male; watch his throat. 3. The male gives his feeder to the female. click on vid 2X to view at youtube larger.
Add Red-headed woodpeckers, Yellow-headed blackbirds, bluebirds, wrens, bluejays, sparrows, grackles, vultures, robins, and on and on.
Here are some pics from this week:
Baltimore oriole was really more orange but the sun was right on him.
from
the most graceful, beautiful mated Deer Pair in soybeans (HERE)
click on pics to view large
who came to check out the apple, peach, and apricot trees in early spring and wandered peacefully around the yard for 15 minutes,
to
Woodchucks, one of whom
came in late winter and is now a family of four who love cold carrots and my mustard greens-- eating apples (HERE), and
playing on the woodpile HERE
from
ethereal butterflies (e.g., HERE and HERE and moreHERE)
Last night i killed a big brown recluse spider in the bathroom. I didn't want to, but my fear still exists. Perfect love which drives out fear is an ongoing endeavor.
Last night, up late reading the political blogs, i squeaked as a mouse scampered in from the kitchen--it screeched in its tracks as it saw me sitting up in bed--and made a sharp right turn into a pile of sheets. Later in the deep dark of early morning, my Konza Prairie Dog sounded like she was in playheaven, pouncing and murmering with glee as she moved the mouse along in its journey through The Cycle.
The death of a crow in the yard, a wounded skunk, a passing wildcat wounded by a bullet, an enourmous disemboweled rat given as a gift by a member of the Thunderpaws Tribe of cats...
Death. It is not the death that hurts, but the moments of violence, confusion, pain and fear that preceed.
Earlier in the day
a hawk had descended in hungry fury on the woodpile, resulting in a scattering of birds but perhaps one less squirrel...
There are cycles in everything.
A woodpecker and a sparrow were pecking and arguing over a seedcake yesterday morning. Back and forth they picked and pecked and peeped-- all while NOT eating. Suddenly, a hummingbird came close and just hovered around both of them. This is three feet from the front porch. Usually the hummers stay 15-25 feet out, near the nectar feeders and the flowers.
The hummingbird came within 3-4 inches of each bird, just humming with interest, for about 20 seconds.
The tiny weightless hummingbird whispered away.
The sparrow and the woodpecker quietly began to eat.
A song to listen to while hiking in the Flint Hills: HERE
So we are sitting here in Daddy O'Pigglies feeling like Buccaneer fans in the early 90's. (If you think you are gonna want to eat, better do it in the first half, 'cuz yer gonna lose your appetite.)
No,
I'm not quite there yet.
Shades of Sam Wyche.
but the Guys at the table are.
One guy is ripping off his nicotine patch and coercing his friend to give him a smoke. there they go. out the door of the clarion.
says it will "soothe" him. Come'on, cats!
y'er makin him smoke!
Srsly, I'm looking at a guy who has a week head start on quitting smoking and the Cardiac Cats are taking that Nail and Pounding it into his heart.
And--
He is a Well Respected Man
The Rockin K-State Wildcat fans are singing happy birthday to Coach Snyder. He must have a roller coaster of emotions:
1. He left a hall of fame "hero", and now that he came back,
Holy Moley if he "fails"--but that is a silly way to see it.
One walks one's walk.
One does what one loves.
One does one's best, and enjoys the journey.
The garden i grow when i'm 90 or 19 is not NEAR as 'successful as the
one i grow when i'm40.)
"Success"
is not what is required, but Love and Honor. satan was "success"ful. for a year or two.
2. Can he still reach the boys/men?
I am becoming discouraged about this issue.
Coach Bill Snyder's heart was broken in Paradise Valley By E.R. just a few years ago, and he was one of the good guys, right? more later... (see previous post of today...)
about honor, discipline, and conduct becoming a gentleman among the youth...
When Tony Dungy came to Tampa bay, the Bucs had tried. Sam wyche was a good nice man, it appeared, but...
The papers ripped him apart. he was not the savior they had expected.
My grandmother sent me a note that said, "The papers have been writing of Sam Wyche. The Sports Writers are SO UNKIND!" Bless her most kind heart.
When i was working in washington dc, a police officer was telling us about an abuse case.
he said,
This one little boy had been beaten by his mom so badly
that they wanted to move him back to his fathers house.
the kid started crying in court.
the judge asked the kid what was wrong.
the kid says, my Father beats me too.
the judge takes him into Chambers, says,
"Kid, your mom beats you, your father beats you, where do you want to live?"
the kid says, tearfully,
"I wanna go live with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they don't beat NObody..."
That was the same year that Baltimore (orioles) could not win a game.
They went longer than anyone, i think, without winning a game in the opening of the season. 20 or 22 games i think.
they said,
"It ain't over till the fat lady sings, but in Baltimore, she sings the national anthem!!!!"
BADUM BING.
Lou Holtz is talking.
our nationally televised game.
although he coached
quite "success"fullly
Notre Dame,
Forever,
what HE says
is important,
is,
for
parents to raise good kids and for each father to make sure that his kids know
How much He loves their mother.
DAG NAB IT!! another nebraska score.
sadness.
this game had the potential to put k-state in a SUHweet position.
They have been lucky, coasting on some lucky waves.
I was thinking maybe that
Confidence might be imparted to the players, they might play above their level, a biological change might occur so that they might play actually worthy of a ranking, after getting it. (Hey, shout out to adrienne leslie-toogood. you should be directing a major university athletic program --but you know...)
DAG NAB IT!! another nebraska score.
more people are entering the clarion.
they ran out of medicating liquor at home.
The police are out in force, hoping for a clean party after the game, methinks.
It is windy!
