Lars-Doug-Leeman

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With thanks to Ario for the poetry.



































Egrets ~Judith WrightOnce as I travelled through a quiet evening,I saw a pool, jet-black and mirror-still.Beyond, the slender paperbarks stood crowding;each on its own white image looked its fill,and nothing moved but thirty egrets wading -thirty egrets in a quiet evening.Once in a lifetime, lovely past believing,your lucky eyes may light on such a pool.As though for many years I had been waiting,I watched in silence, till my heart was fullof clear dark water, and white trees unmoving,and, whiter yet, those thirty egrets wading.



























Return ~ JaimeSmall birds wing north: their beata vibration, like a note pitched, rising and collapsingagainst the line of zero--or silence--caught, a breathless instant within the ear.A feather drops, twists like Orpheusto the earth's surface: Swallows abandon Egyptian shoresto build their muddy homes under cooler eaves.Butterflies enleave the trees of Monterey.By the Pacific eight egrets mouse in a vacant lot,long grasses against their reedy legs,their shoulders--moon's white glow made solid--streaming and narrow, their plumage a veil pulled back.The planet tilts again and heartsshed cruelty, slide--wavering--into spring.

simultaneousness...♫ little egrets - egretta garzetta - from bali ♫♫♫

© bocavermelha, a Brazilian photographer living in Singapore who has a very large and excellent collection of wildlife on Flickr.

A gift from Janine.

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© Patryk Osmola

With thanks to Ink.

© Chi Liu

With thanks to Janine

Inquisitor

cooling down the heat wave

"el bernat pescaire"

© Joan Rodó
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