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The Biggest Week in American Birding Festival at Ohio's Magee Marsh is coming our way on May 9-18 (uh, is this a week?). Between 75,000 and 90,00 visitors will crowd the boardwalk searching for migrating birds, especially teeny, tiny warblers. Photographers must steady their $12,000 + "big glass" lenses on monopods ONLY in May. No tripods allowed on the boardwalk! I think that all the fanfare surrounding Magee Marsh is overlooking another unique, culturally significant bird migration event - the annual Plastic Flamingo Migration. Every spring thousands of these avian denizens migrate from their winter shelters to yards and gardens throughout northeast Ohio - most notably in and around Parma. I captured this beautiful pair foraging in our neighbor's backyard (spotted three others in their front yard near the lighthouse.) Don Featherstone, we salute you!
Pictures from a walk my wife and I took at the Clara McLean House Healing Garden.
Pictures from a walk my wife and I took at the Clara McLean House Healing Garden.
Pictures from a walk my wife and I took at the Clara McLean House Healing Garden.
Pictures from a walk my wife and I took at the Clara McLean House Healing Garden.
Pictures from a walk my wife and I took at the Clara McLean House Healing Garden.
The day started off with a decision: To shovel, or not to shovel...that was the question. It was 24° F Easy choice. : )
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Packing up so many displays to store for 10 or 11 months of the year is a major consideration with this scale of lawn exhibition. Why people go to such lengths at Halloween but only at a smaller scale (or not at all) for the rest of the year's several holidays is worth thinking about: what kinds of things does Halloween signify for person meaning and for popular or collective meanings, I wonder. No doubt such questions will give different results as the society drifts and turns, deepens and narrows, widens and become shallow in the course of time.
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Been unpacking things. Will be unpacking things for a while. Looking forward to the day when I actually feel like this is my home I live in.
Spotted this fun, creative Thanksgiving display on my way home. Check out the cute turkey pumpkin in the wagon, lol =)
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You’ve heard of a rose between two thorns? Well, this is a bench between two birds.
If you look closely you will see two bird sculptures on either side of the bench. They are for sale, as are the bench, potted plants and various other garden items at Vale's Greenhouse in Diamond Valley (formerly Black Diamond), Alberta. It's a little treasure of a place.
Happy Bench Monday!
