Simmer Till Done » birds http://simmertilldone.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:13:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Four and Twenty Blackbirds http://simmertilldone.com/2008/05/02/four-and-twenty-blackbirds/ http://simmertilldone.com/2008/05/02/four-and-twenty-blackbirds/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 20:30:23 +0000 Marilyn http://simmertilldone.com/?p=187 Other than the near-tornado we had last night (oh, Kansas) it’s been absolutely beautiful around here.
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So pretty that when I walk to and from downtown, I’ve been playing nature photographer. When I first saw these birds with the flowering dogwoods and the blue sky, I was all Marlon Perkins and blah blah blah, I should be a birder, I’m hunting for antique bird books, the birds are lovely, I love the birds.
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Then this little guy hopped by, and he made me think of Ernest Hemingway – and how as a starving writer in Paris, he’d stroll through the Luxembourg Gardens, pushing a baby carriage, and occasionally strangle a pigeon for dinner.

This one was so shiny, so beady – and he made me think of Ma Ingalls on the plains. Laura recalled that when the sky rained dead blackbirds, they had no chicken, so Ma put them in a pie.

So maybe I’m not the right person for wildlife photography.
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But I chop carrots fast, and make a very flaky crust.

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