Today is day seven of Inktober and of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. Today’s prompt is passport. Imagine if you had to get permission to visit the lands of mammals and insects and birds and the waters of the fish. Imagine if the animals themselves gave you permission to visit them. And imagine visiting them and […]
A visit to Wolf Nation Read More »
Day four of The Ultimate Blogging Challenge and Inktober. The prompt for today is exotic. The boy picked up his backpack. His parents smiled at him. But the boy was watching Baby Bear, who went into a wooded area near the beach. “I wonder what’s there,” the boy said. “You have a lot of curiosity,”
Today, I went with two friends to the opening day of the Erie County Fair. The entry fee was a donation of four cans of food. All food was going to Feedmore of Western New York. When we arrived and donated our cans, we saw that the bins were overflowing with cans, which meant that
Wooden creations at the Erie County Fair Read More »
St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church holds a chicken barbecue and basket raffle every year. It’s not only a fundraiser, it’s a community event. This year, I had a Very Important and Very Powerful Job. I was a Roll Opener. Doesn’t that sound like a great Job Title? I thought so. I was celebrating
Soup is souper… even souperb! Read More »
When did I become a birdwatcher? Ummmmmmm. I really don’t know. It’s one of these things that sort of happened when I was least expecting it. One day, I was wondering how realistic Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, “The Birds,” was. And, before I knew it, I was saying, “Oooh, is that a Baltimore Oriole?” I really
On a clear day, you can see forever… Bird flying high, you know how I feel… Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the days… Here comes the sun (Here goes the sun??) “My time of day is the nighttime…” listening for the “black bird singing in the dead of night.”
Sunset over the Niagara River Read More »
Today, I chose to write a poem, and the poetic form that I picked was the blank verse. This poetic form can be any number of lines. It is an unrhymed form of poetry, and each line is ten syllables. I’ve been thinking about the weather forecast because it’s gardening season now. So, tomorrow, the
Just recently, I was walking down the street when I saw a goose couple with their babies. I was very excited and happy because those babies looked very young. Seeing something like that is exactly why I try to remember to take my camera with me wherever I go. So, I got the camera out
Introducing… the goslings! Read More »
At last, it really feels like spring. After snow and wind and freezing weather, spring has finally arrived. Today, I was out for a walk and I saw two geese and their family of nine goslings. The whole family was pecking at the ground. I would guess that they were looking for something to eat.
There is something interesting to see in any place that you are… Mostly, I’m going to be focusing on the cherry blossoms in Buffalo…. but I had to say something about this picture that I took on Grand Island of a group of turkeys, apparently out for their late morning run along the river. In