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  2. This post made me google images of other bird nests. They are amazing structures.

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  3. Janet Holt – Bald Head Island, NC – I am on a journey of discovery. One that involves discovering the world around me and discovering myself. I have found that using a camera is making this process of discovery much more enjoyable. I trust you will enjoy it as well. My passion for all animals knows no bounds, but it is the parrot that has caught my heart! I am now involved in a campaign to help bring parrots in the wild back into their normal existence! The Indonesian Parrot Project is first on my list, and with a little help from our friends we will bring the Abotti Cockatoo back into a full, strong life in their natural habitat.
    janethilton says:

    Simply amazing!!!

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  4. Wonderful photo – full of promise indeed.

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  6. Such a nice image. The oak leaves set off the nest beautifully.

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  8. Gretchen Del Rio – Crestline, California, USA – I first discovered the magic of water based colors when many years ago I began to paint with procion dyes on silk. I loved the unexpected quality of the process. It was so exciting to never be sure what the colors and water would combine to produce. It seemed as though the medium had its own passion. Painting with watercolors and paper is much the same. I love the color combinations and separations that occur spontaneously as the color floats on the water. You can never totally predict what effect will result. If you try to control the medium too much, your painting will be very tight losing its aliveness. The artist must be bold and decisive or the work will not be clear and fresh. It is really like a dance. It becomes a controlled folly in knowing when to let go and when to take charge of the direction that the painting is taking. The images that I paint reflect my emotions and are expression of my life experience. They are not extensively planned, but rather evolve as the painting progresses. I am always surprised by the end result since it comes into being because of what the medium and emotion has suggested. The paintings are from my heart and I always fall in love with the subject. I believe that we are all connected and, if an image touches you, it is because we all have the same heart even though our paths may be different. Most of all, painting what I paint makes me happy. The paintings are my own path unfolding. They are an opening door for me and contain my own passion for life.
    Gretchen Del Rio says:

    Love ‘a feathered promiss’

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  10. Catherine Johnson – Canada – Welcome to my art blog with the occasional sheep and poem thrown in. http://catherinemjohnson.com Contact me at catherine_mrsj@hotmail.com
    Catherine Johnson says:

    I too love ‘feathered promise’ great poem!

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  12. no step too loose – With time I've come to make sense of all the energy and strength that I have tugged and hustled within me. I've found enormous peace and gratification in sharing the way I see and feel the world that is around me on my ever day basis and the one I'm insistently searching and broadening. I accept few limits and fear no newness. The good part of getting older is the challenge of working anticlockwise with the soul - look and experience all as if it were the first time, brings awareness and sensitivity to the basics of life. Truly "Less is more".
    no step too loose says:

    I love the composition of the photo! Congrats!

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  14. typewriterpoet – I enjoy many poetry styles but enjoy short poetry the most and a little bit of microfiction, but the challenge of a long poem has it's enjoyment as well!
    typewriterpoet says:

    Awe so sweet.

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  17. Cynthia Guenther Richardson – Pacific NW – Hello fellow readers and bloggers, Writing has always been a powerful connector to diverse ideas and people. We each are a meaningful part of this beautiful, ever-widening web of life. Blogging enables more interaction, which I love even after 11 years of blogging posts on three different sites. For thirty years I was an addictions/mental health counselor and also a manager of home care services for elderly folks. Now that I have hit 70 and am more devoted to a creative life! I've published online or in literary journals/collections several times, including fiction and creative non-fiction pieces and poetry over five decades. Additionally, I was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for an excerpt of my novel-in-progress, Other than Words (the work gathering dust at present), about a mute dancer and her impact on her adopted community and a world-travelling photojournalist. I also am working on a connected set of stories about a close-knit town in northern Michigan. On Wordpress I enjoy writing about living richly despite (or because of) life's setbacks and a diagnosis of heart disease at age 51. Posts tagged "memoir" share spiritual adventures, interactions with nature, the healing of trauma's impact and challenges of writing full-time. Short stories and creative nonfiction, and poetry are favorite genres but I enjoy sharing my photography as well My hope is my offerings reflect a profound faith in God and our humanness which cloaks spiritual natures. I include myself as part of the diverse group of writers who discover and share the illuminating, positive experiences amid life's uncertainties and hardships. Let me hear from you when you visit--I appreciate your comments a great deal. Blessings and regards, Cynthia
    Cynthia Guenther Richardson says:

    Nests are so exquisite–thanks.

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  18. gwenie07 – I am a creative mystic -- an adventurer who wants to deep dive into all of the lessons life has to offer.
    gwenie07 says:

    Reblogged this on Gwen's musings and commented:
    So wonderful! I will be writing about my infatuation with nests on my next blog! 🙂

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  20. leiflife – I have lived most of my life as a dancer,but I have been daughter, sister, lover, wife, mother and, more recently, grandmother, writer, sculptor, musician, and visual artist. Balancing all these aspects of my life continues to be a challenge. I was born on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, but have also lived in New Orleans, Texas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York City. My father was the artist and naturalist, Walter Inglis Anderson, and my mother was Agnes Grinstead Anderson, an elementary school teacher and a writer. As a child, I loved to dance naturally, inspired by the trees, birds, wind, and waves that greeted my every day. Eventually, I took lessons and my mother encouraged my dream of becoming a great ballerina. I studied ballet with Lelia Haller in New Orleans, and the atmosphere of competition, and the sense that one could never be good enough, daunted my dreams and exhausted my spirit and body. In 1965, Three things happened to free me from the tyrannical world of ballet and move me further toward the balance my soul craved. I discovered Isadora Duncan, the great revolutionist of modern dance, I gave birth to my daughter, Moira, and my artist father died. From here on I would claim the freedom to explore and express the whole of my life through dancing. I was free to become the many-faceted star I was born to be. Since then I have mothered and performed, loved and written poetry, taught the dance technique I called Airth (after the balancing forces of air and earth). I have shared my life with husband or lover, raised my children and kissed them goodby and hello repeatedly. I have also kissed my students goodby and enjoyed teaching workshops from which I could walk away, glad to relax in the company of various dogs and cats. I have read huge quantities of extraordinary books, making friends with the authors through their engaging characters. I have also written poems, memoirs, children's books, and one novel. I have two published books: DANCING THROUGH AIRTH and DANCING WITH MY FATHER. My brush and ink drawings, sculptures, and paintins dance through the homes of strangers while I make occasional journies to Paris and dance anonymously on Paris Streets. At age sixty-five, one is tempted to settle into complacency, to say "I have done the best I can; so be it. I would rather die.
    leiflife says:

    Exquisite…and promising.

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  23. zingertalesandmore – In building this blog i'm hoping to create a modern Stillroom Book. Long ago a Stillroom Book was a complete guide to daily life passed down from generation to generation. It was not only a cookbook or just an herbal guide, but something of each and more, it contained drawings of herbs for identification, recipes and formulas for medicines, cosmetics, preserved foods, liqueurs, beer and ales, household products, along with advice on midwifery, animal husbandry and general care and cleaning methods for the household. Often with notes and antidotes of the ladies, children and butlers. My dream is to inspire, inform and design a little space where one can ponder!
    zingertalesandmore says:

    love.

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  27. Saskia - Villa in Umbria – Tuoro sul Trasimeno (PG), Italy – I am the owner of Villa in Umbria, a small holiday rental agency in Umbria, Italy. We live in Umbria and as Umbria specialists we advise people on where to stay and what to do in Umbria.
    villainumbria says:

    Very nice!

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  29. George Weaver – Progressive old woman with an opinion. "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot." ...Mark Twain
    George Weaver says:

    I began at the most recent post and worked my way backwards. What an astounding collection of beautiful images and poetry. It is far past my bedtime and my eyes are drooping, but I couldn’t stop strolling through the farm and the flowers and the forest. This is the most delightful blog I’ve discovered in forever. What a joy! 🙂

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