November 22, 2008

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  This morning many birds came to visit my back yard.  I looked up from my table where I was writing and I saw a little cardinal perching on the top of my retaining wall.  I reached for my camera which was conveniently on the book shelf right behind me.  And then I spotted a red head woodpecker.  A moment later a flock of turkeys stood in the woods just a few feet away from the retaining wall.  Perhaps they wanted to ask if I would want turkeys for thanksgiving.  The turkey stood on the retaining wall just starring at me.

   

  And here is a poem from Emily Dickinson.  My regrets that the great poet did not have a poem about turkeys or woodpeckers or cardinals, just crimson robin, it is close enough for cardinal, isn’t it?

   

  I had a crimson robin

  Who sang full many a day,

  But when the woods were painted

  He, too did fly away.

  Time brought me other robins,-

  Their ballads were the same, –

  Still for my missing troubadour

  I kept the ‘house at hame.’

   

  Emily Dickinson

   

  I am sorry that the pictures are blurry.  I was behind my double hung window.  And the dirtiness of the window glass, not having enough light, zoom too out of range are the reasons of the blurriness.
  
  
  

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