The other day the Bohemian Waxwings came to harvest the berries of our Mt. Ash trees out front.
Today the moose were here to trim the tree a bit.
While the young one was feasting, the mom was acting as lookout.
I'm guessing that one benefit of dirty windows is that moose are more likely to see the glass. When it was looking in like this I was hoping it wasn't thinking about tasting the green things inside. There was a spring visit long ago when just outside the windows was a row of budding tulips and I watched from two feet away as she - one-by-one - took each tulip bud.
Steve & all your readers (and to good moose everywhere).
ReplyDeleteWe watched much of yesterday's (20 Jan 2021) inaugural events in Washington, DC, unfold from the perspective of ex-Americans (who had fought the good fight their entire lives in the USA) sitting in our 'snug' in our small cottage on a small island off the south coast of much-smaller-than-America, Britain.
Taking in yesterday's images, sounds, hopes, we began to feel that if this is how representative democracy can respond in crisis, things are on the mend in our former home. Grandpa Biden is now in the White House: a man with decades of high-level government experience elected its executive public servant, borne to the presidency by an incredible surge of voters who really got it -- that each & every vote matters.
Yet we were left wondering, Will Republican voters in the States begin to talk with Democratic friends & family now, to rejoin a commonweal?
Can Americans build civil, (even better) neighbourly regard toward one another after years of civil war-gaming led by a man (family, really) whose leadership offered enlistment or disregard?
Instead, we agree with your now president that you all find ways to pull together. And if we might offer a metaphor of hope, the sun is out this morning in our corner of the world, welcomed after weeks of dismal rain.
Go well, America. Practice the work of peace, Americans. We're counting on it.
Jacob (Brit) & Eugene (Irish) Dugan-Brause
formerly Americans; always native-born Americans
Thanks for your good wishes. Way too many issues, way too facts for me to be able to blog about this stuff yet. But I do know that not convicting Trump after the first impeachment led directly to where we are now. Obviously because he would have been out of office. But pretty clearly to me, because his lifelong disregard for decency, norms, and the law, was reinforced by not making him accountable in the Senate. Let's hope enough Republican Senators come down from their Trump high and do their duty.
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DeleteToo much information, too little wisdom. And this internet thing is only making it irretrievably worse. In twenty years, the Amazon will have destroyed everything, the seas will have swallowed coastlines and entire countries, and most voters will brain dead on technology.
DeleteBut hey, we love first world convenience.