My balcony has turned into an aviary Rodeo Drive. Finches and chickadees and songbirds are scuffling and mating and rolling all over the place in the snow outside my sliding glass doors. It's like extreme Discovery channel, live.
They're really quite acrobatic, if ferocious and unromantic.
Part of me wants to lean out the window and yell, "Hey! What gives? I'm writing a paper in here!" Another part of me finds it enormously funny. Another part of me witnesses the sudden, sweeping, falling-in-mid-air feats and finds it beautiful.
Monday, January 31, 2005
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Time to time, I feel that I am wasting my time with all these blogs. But yours is very interesting. I will return for sure
Jeff - jock itch
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