Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

It is astonishing how violently a big branch shakes when a silly little bird has left it.

~ Katherine Mansfield, from “Alors, je pars.” in Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield


Photo of Common Redpoll (male) by Larissa Datsha

15 thoughts on “Monday Morning Wake-Up Call”

  1. Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
    The beauty of nature, for an early morning … ‘It is astonishing how violently a big branch shakes when a silly little bird has left it.
    Katherine Mansfield, from “Alors, je pars.”

  2. What a little beauty! don’t think I’ve ever seen one–has anyone else? if so, where?

  3. Such a darling little bird. I knew it had to be in the larger Finch family…Just yesterday a fat Sparrow took off from an Apsen sapling we both remark about how the sapling was moving so quickly from the force of the bird takeoff…and Thank You for answering my question from you offering of yesterday…Now I know which “Mansfield”, Yiyun Li quoted. Hope your afternoon brings you many smiles…and wonderful nourishment from Susan, kitchen skills…I know she is an amazing baker and assume cook as well…you once mentioned her meatloaf (yum)

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