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This This is the best part Roll down the windows Let the cool air caress your face Don't remember That it'll be hot and sunny In just a few hours, or that By the end of this sweet October Children bundled in winter coats Costumes peeking out from under Will be knocking at the door.

040821

 

sunlight streams in

the cat and I shift

as the beam moves

032821c

 

12-16

one year, before Christmas

some lost homes and lives

030421b

 

another cold

winter day at 22

C, that is

021221

 

daffodils in bloom

was January

chopped liver?

020821

 

house sparrow

part of the British invasion

dive bombing a much prettier

male towhee

under the feeder

back to Stratford you thug!

013021

 

clouds

do their long striptease

night's curtain falls

012521b

 

70F

in January US

tornado weather

012021b

 

office plants

are glad to see the sun

not like me

011621

 

scudding clouds

the flashing sun teases

through my window

122820

 

eye to eye

with an anole on a leaf

nobody moves

122320b

 

heat radiates

from the black keyboard

typing in the sun

122220b

 

Reports from the front
(close to the window
where the plants live):
the young anole lives

(and may be terrifying to southerners)
I haven't seen any insects--
its food source
still a mystery

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 white-sky day

waiting for the sun promised

by the weather app

122020b

 

The house finches have moved on to greener pastures, and the house sparrows have taken over the birdfeeder. So that's something, but they're both British immigrants brought to the states by some fool who wanted to import every bird mentioned in Shakespeare. Not good for the local ecology, and by local I mean all of North America.

121820

 

3 finches

fighting over 6 perches

chill, ladies! 

*****

Substitute "vulture" for "finch" and "perch" for "perch" and you get two for one.

121620b

 

mud-puddle

memories crunch underfoot

stomping ice crystals

121420d

 

overcast day 

I feel like I'm living

in the UK

121220b

 

feeder hangs still

this slow gray drip of rain 

keeps birds in their beds

113020

 

Arctic blob 

brings fall colors to AL

consolation prize