THE FLITTING LITTLE BLUE BUSH TITS ARE BACK

Used to       on cool summer mornings

   they came to our bird grain

       just about every day 

and flitted and fluttered around faster

   than the eye could follow,

having breakfast with us, so to speak...

Ah, the sun was still climbing

  and the sun's angle threw an amazing

                 "dappled light"

across the writing place's fruit cloth...

   and all seemed peaceful and quiet

with the world...

But then our trusted Bird Grain Lady

   at the bird store told us:

"We got this new bird grain in...

   that will attract all kinds of exotic

birds, you know, like cardinals, parrots,

   blue-footed boobies...and 

amazing birds hardly ever seen...if

you buy it--they will come!"

So we bought it, a hanging cylinder

   of miraculous unheard-of grain!

            They didn't come....

and our marvelous and interesting 

    little Bush Tits...just up and left.

So now we have returned to the old

   tried and true regular 

          run-of-the-mill bird grain

and the little Tits 

     "have returned to Capistrano,"

once again....today!

They are back and the happiest,

   flitting-est, nervous-like, 

energetic that one can imagine!

   Amazing little creatures...from

The Creator...

We think there are five, but then

    they are difficult to count

as they won't be still...

    Four are eating as fast 

as they can...with one poor little

                watch-bird

over in the waxy bush.

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MIL

11 JULY 2019

THE EYES OF THE POTATOES ARE UPON YOU

"all the live long day".....the Irish know...






In these uncertain times 
  when the grocery shelves
just suddenly "up and clear,"
 ( tho' strangely it is not 
the food that goes first...)

We'd all better be like the 
 crazy "dead man walking"
and morale-boosting such
  movies   and have a final
plan for a delightful meal
   once all the "comestibles"
are gone...a meal that will
   endure a long time 
      in nourishment 
        and happy memory...

Oh, I know that there are
  naysayers galore who 
like to diss everything and
  always be negative...
and they class Spam ..
        as "spam"
every chance they get.

You see   they never had
  to live on Spam and
fried potatoes while in school...
      The Hamburger steak,
          "RICH  CROWD."
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MIL
23 JULY 2020

"WHO MORE THAN SELF THEIR COUNTRY LOVED.."

"O beautiful for spacious skies,

  For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

  Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

  God shed his grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

  From sea to shining sea."

   ......Katherine Lee Bates 

             (1859-1929)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, TAIBAN, N. MEX., U.S.A.

"Breathes there a man with soul

     so dead,

Who never to himself hath said:

This is my own, my native land 

    Whose heart within him ne'er

hath burned when home his

  footsteps he hath turned,

From wandering on a foreign strand?

If such there breathe, go mark him well;

   For him no Minstrel raptures swell,

High tho' his titles, proud his name,

   Despite these titles, power, and pelf,

The wretch concentered all in self--

  Living shall forfeit fair renown,

And doubly dying, shall go down

  To the dust from which he spring,

Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."

     ......Sir Walter Scott

"Praise the Power that hath made

    and preserved us a nation..."

         .."The Star Spangled Banner"

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"Long may our land be bright 

  With freedom's Holy Light;

Protect us by Thy might,

  Great God our King."

  Amen

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Hymns on the FOURTH...

MIL

4 JULY 2020

Painting by Annalon