http://coyotemercury.com/blog1 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:49:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Morning... Yellow flower-dandelion-clovers-weeds, speargrass That rooster crowing by the shed Small tree-purple flowers Cars on the highway Yellow stars on green grass space Tiny moth flying below the tops of grass-unseen & secret Lines of trees-leafless, still asleep Birds chirp and sing, unseen Dandelions gone to seed Vulture, distant, glides horizon wind Pink flowers beyond the ditch, beyond reach Stands of bluebonnet Chilly ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/04/10/things-seen-outside-school-on-april-2-2008/ [photopress:scissor_tailed_flycatcher.jpg,full,pp_image] Soaring overhead, scissor-tails returning a long journey ends I love the scissor-tailed flycatcher. So beautiful and elegant with tails forked wide or streaming long and thin behind like signs towed by toy airplanes. What would the sign say? Bugs beware, spring is here. They're the state bird of Oklahoma, and can be found on the Oklahoma ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/04/07/scissor-tails-return/ [photopress:cardinal_1.jpg,full,pp_image] Not much time for blogging and book writing. Guess what comes first? So, here, another picture of a bird. In a free moment at work today, I flipped open Beat Poets and found Kerouac's advice for writers: "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose." Half lunatic love ravings of the self-professed angelic mind (see me vent ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/03/26/northern-cardinal/ [photopress:squirrel.jpg,full,pp_image] Being a squirrel sometimes looks like good work if you can get it. Today was a perfect first day of spring with deep blue skies and a nice cool breeze. I saw a barn swallow while out today, so the swallows are back as are the hummingbirds who are starting to ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/03/20/first-day-of-spring/ [photopress:wall.jpg,full,pp_image] There's nothing like an old stone wall, crumbling and forgotten, to make a gray day seem even grayer. I'm sure its builder would be as surprised to find it still here as I was to find it at all only a few steps away, though all but hidden from the trail. [photopress:plant.jpg,full,pp_image] These thick leathery plants ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/03/19/overcast-day-on-the-trail/ [photopress:downy_woodpecker.jpg,full,pp_image] I saw this downy woodpecker banging away on a branch about ten feet above the trail yesterday. Everyone I passed on the trail was talking about the woodpecker. Did you see the woodpecker? Did you see him? Loud as he was, he wasn't hard to miss. http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/03/18/downy-woodpecker/ [photopress:gadwall_swimming.jpg,full,pp_image] I took my survey walk along the trail near the house on Saturday morning. The first thing that hit me when I walked outside was the sheer number of birds that were singing. It's been a while since it was that loud. It was a beautiful spring day, and the ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/03/03/e-gadwall-thats-some-birds/ [photopress:joey_about_to_bark.jpg,full,pp_image] There's that moment just before a dog barks when you can see it in his eyes. It's going to happen. You know he's going to bark. He knows you know he's about to bark. It's like he's saying, "It's dinner time. We can do this easy way... or the loud way." 'Round here, we seem to ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/02/29/weekend-hound-blogging-the-calm-before-the-bark/ [photopress:mockingbird_in_blue_1.jpg,full,pp_image] A few years ago we went camping up near Colorado Bend. All through the night we kept hearing what sounded like a cell phone ringing up in a tree above our camp site. We initially suspected it to be the mysterious birdus ringus loudus (commonly known as the central Texas greater ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/02/28/and-if-that-mockingbird-dont-ring/ "Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." -Philip K Dick, VALIS Sound like certain members of the Oceanic 6? I can't even begin to say how thrilled I was to see the book that Locke pulled off Ben's shelf to serve with his breakfast in last week's episode of Lost, ... http://coyotemercury.com/blog1/2008/02/27/the-lost-book-club-valis/