Posts Tagged: hummingbirds

   
Hi everyone! Around our neck of the woods, we are dealing with “in-between-ness”: the snow is still strewn in melty-gray piles, it’s not quite spring, daylight savings time has started, Downton Abbey is over, and Easter is still weeks away. Oh, and Leonard Nimoy died.  🙁  Sigh. In other words, things are feeling kind of “blah” around…

   
I am on a mission: to photograph hummingbirds. Every summer, I try my hand at it, with mixed (mostly blurry) results.  Those critters are FAST!  But I make the attempt, just the same.  Here are some of my best pics so far (only from the last two summers; the earlier ones weren’t worth putting up,…

   
  I used to picture the author’s life as a very solitary angst-ridden one.  You know, the cursed-ivory-tower with gin bottles and cigarette butts strewn on the floor. (Ok, stop laughing, I was raised on mixture of Tennyson and Beat Poetry). Imagine my delight in discovering that friendship is the key component to the writing…