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March 25, 2012 - Somewhere on the road between Memphis and Dallas...
Somewhere on the road between Memphis and Dallas I came around a curve and saw this. Pretty, huh? If you are having trouble locating the objects of my appreciation, I am talking about everything on the outside of the windshield.
Driving cross country in the spring is an exercise in appreciating beauty. The woods on either side of the road are like backup singers in a pretty song. I might not notice them, but they are there. And when I do hear the woods, I am entranced by their existence, by the juxtaposition of the separate, and the ever new creation which is the result.
Rather than make this a journey from monuments to local attractions to the Caves of Mystery and Gravity Hill, and mandatory excursions, such as,
"You must see the Grand Canyon!"
"The Bluebonnet Festival is this weekend!!"
and,
"You are missing the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, just so you can eat a Moon Pie and drink RC Cola with some old fogy in East Texas?!!!"...
Yes, rather than make such a journey, I think I will linger, and look at the little beauties that surround me.
short walk...
a dandelion blooms
in cracked cement
the road between Memphis and Dallas
November 14, 2011 ~ Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes ~ 1919
Bobolink
The bobolink is a migratory bird at home in grasslands and wetlands. They spend their summers in North America and winter in Argentina.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 - 1927) American ornithologist, illustrator and artist graduated from Cornell in 1897. In pursuit of new bird species, Fuertes traveled to Alaska, much of the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Columbia and Ethiopia.
He collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History performing field research, painting dioramas and book illustrations.
Fuertes lectured on Ornithology at Cornell from 1923, illustrated more than 60 books and contributed hundreds of works for magazine articles.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes
THE AUK: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. In Memoriam: Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 - 1927)
SCARLET TANAGER
August 20, 2011 ~ Scarlet Tanager
scarlet tanager
tanagers overheard
talking... heading west through
Cumberland Gap
