First sighting in 2024 of a Great Blue Heron at 5:30 am. at Cove Island Park. She’s resting from her long flight from her winter home in the Caribbean. More photos from this mornings walk here.
Spring is here…
Tag: heron
Bad Hair Day
Great Blue Heron @ Daybreak. 32° F feels like 24° F. 7:15 am., November 28, 2023. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
Inspired by: “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.” — Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Harper, January 1, 1953) (via Make Believe Boutique)
Saturday Morning
Where to strike when work is home?
A persistent little voice that says,
get out, get out —
— Lotte L.S., from “This Energy Wasted by Flight — ” (NY Times, September 3, 2023)
DK Photo: Great Blue Heron @ Daybreak. 56° F. 6:46 am. September 2, 2023. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
Saturday Morning
Photos from this morning’s walk @ Cove Island Park. Moon over Cove Island Park photos here. And daybreak sunrise photos here.
alone at water, its open eye, without seeming to move
I am always watching
the single heron at its place
alone at water, its open eye…
without seeming to move…
The bird is more beautiful
than my hand, skin more graceful
than my foot, my own dark eye…
— Linda Hogan, from “The Heron” in “Rounding the Human Corners”
DK Photo: Great Blue Heron. 6:15 a.m. this morning. 50° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning here.