“Trust the music you feel, the rhythm doesn’t lie.” - source unknown
Hello friends! It is hot, hot, hot. The heat index at 5:30 this morning (before sunrise) was 88F and it was like walking into a bowl of soup. Not many photos will be taken this week!
Luckily last week was cool so today I’m going to give you the “sandpiper experience”. One of my favorite things is when a little sandpiper will decide to just hang out near me on the shore and this little spotted sandpiper did exactly that last week:
Hello little guy! Welcome back from wherever your summer travels took you!
Strutting his stuff with his rhythmic walk, bee-bopping along to his own music.
Oh! Are you going to come down and see me? (Please say yes, please say yes…)
Yay! Lovely landing too by the way.
“That’s a funny looking creature with a long black pointed nose, but she seems safe.”
Doing his Big Bird impression - I mean, isn’t this how Big Bird always posed?
Doing the tail-bob dance. I love how they bounce along to life.
In case you didn’t catch it in the last one, they tail-bob all day long. Tail down…
…Tail up.
Oh yes, that’s perfect for your close-up. (One of these days one of them is going to climb over me like a rock but it hasn’t happened yet.)
Check out his changing feathers.
Here’s a spring photo of a spotted sandpiper so you can see the difference between spring and fall. So many birds change their feathers two (or more) times a year.
Thank you for trusting me little guy.
Whatever you are facing this week - and I know so many are facing heat, floods, tropical storms, earthquake and who knows what else - sending love and hoping you find safety and then can drop beneath the waves and find moments of peace.
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Yesterday, my daughter sent me a striking close up photo of a hummingbird making a buffet of her honeysuckles that she grew specifically for hummingbirds.
Yours is one of four publications here that I look forward to each week, because they soothe my soul. They take me to the good, peaceful world I wanted to live in and diminish the memories of the hard world I actually inhabited.
For example, when I saw your photos in today’s article, I started thinking about scarlet breasted rollers, hammerkops, and two secretary birds who somehow ended up in our front yard. I think of the fish eagles, the grey laury go-away birds and the delightful little hoopoes. I think of these beautiful creatures and it diminishes other less pleasant experiences.
Beautiful, as always...and a great quote!
Yesterday, my daughter sent me a striking close up photo of a hummingbird making a buffet of her honeysuckles that she grew specifically for hummingbirds.
Yours is one of four publications here that I look forward to each week, because they soothe my soul. They take me to the good, peaceful world I wanted to live in and diminish the memories of the hard world I actually inhabited.
For example, when I saw your photos in today’s article, I started thinking about scarlet breasted rollers, hammerkops, and two secretary birds who somehow ended up in our front yard. I think of the fish eagles, the grey laury go-away birds and the delightful little hoopoes. I think of these beautiful creatures and it diminishes other less pleasant experiences.