33 Replies to “Tattered Wing”

  1. willmeneke – Carmel Valley,Ca – lost voice due to cancer-now speak thru my camera and artwork and my Friesian horse-Jake please visit my blog willmeneke.wordpress.com
    willmeneke says:

    Beauty is best savored
    with a taste of
    imperfection
    to bring out its full
    flavor

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    2. Will, how marvelous! thank you for sharing and enhancing this post! a delightful poem. Best, Seedbud

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  3. Lovely image. It looks like a bird took a nip at this fellow’s wing but he’s still able to fly and feed!

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  4. johncpicardi – Welcome to my blog. I am the author of the novel Oliver Pepper's Pickle and the published plays The Sweepers and Seven Rabbits on a Pole, both plays have been produced off Broadway and around the US. I am a graduate of Johnson & Wales University where I majored in Culinary arts. I have a BA from The University of Massachusetts and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. This blog is about food and food memories and every other fantastic and scrumptious thing to do with it. My appetite and passion for food is large and runs deep, sometimes its indulgent and wild and other times wholesome and simple, often humorous and always immeasurable. I grew up outside of Boston and spent many hours of my childhood in front of the TV watching Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet) and Julia Child prepare all kinds of luscious meals that would make my mouth water. Other days I’d follow my mother and two grandmothers around their simple, tidy kitchens as they busily prepared hearty fragrant meals, hand-cut pastas, preserved fruits and vegetables, baked yeasty breads, spicy cookies and frosted lopsided cakes. I was there by their side asking questions and helping where needed and there were plenty of times I was ordered to leave if I was in their way. It was a given that by the time I graduated High School I would be going off to Johnson & Wales University to study Culinary Arts. Those years were fine and good. I loved the hands on creativeness of cooking whether it be the simple lesson of washing a sink full of colorful salad greens, trussing a chicken or peeling a gorgeous carrot or the complicated lessons of making a French Country Pate or Julia Child’s Cassoulet or making Brioche, it all thrilled me and my dream had arrived!
    johncpicardi says:

    Wow! Thanks for follow my blog, these photos are amazing, looking forward to coming back! Thank you. John

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  7. thirdhandart – Kansas City, MO – If I’m not out taking photos, you’ll probably find me sitting at the computer editing photos. Recently, I've been experimenting with turning photos into digital artwork: paintings, sketches and pastels...
    thirdhandart says:

    Wonderful post… the swallowtail’s survival scar is beautiful!

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  8. Susan Feniak – Salmon Arm – I am an artist. I live with my husband on the shore of Shuswap Lake in British Columbia Canada. If my art makes you smile then I have succeeded in my quest to make this world a happier, brighter place. Please, NO NFT's!!
    sefeniak says:

    Nice image!

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  9. 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:

    What a lovely tiger swallow tail, this is so romantic

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  10. Robyn Lee – "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." ~Carl Jung
    Robyn Lee says:

    2 ‘beautiful’ subjects to focus on! Thank you 🙂 ~ RL

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  12. 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:

    And adores… And adores… Exquisite and reverent moment caught…

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  20. How lovelyy. <3 swallowtails. This triggered the opposite thought. What if beauty isn't as beauty does? Wouldn't it look weird if a butterfly were attracted to a cactus? But I digress.

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    1. Oh! But I like that thought! Surely there is some insect that adores (and pollinates) cactus. I wonder what it is…

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    2. Don’t you just love thinking like this. I did paint a I do believe with a fish and a bird once.

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  21. ShimonZ – Jerusalem – I find my pleasure in art and literature. My primary language is Hebrew, but I enjoy English as an international language. Have worked most of my life in photography, and writing. Have also taught in college. Enjoy a good adventure.
    ShimonZ says:

    beautiful picture

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  22. terrietez – I'm a retired Secondary School teacher and was Head of Department of Physical Education in a Sports College and latterly Head of Department of Personal and Social Education. I taught Marketing and Customer Service to 6th form students and had a hectic teaching career. Since retirement I completed a Writer's Bureau Creative Writing Course which covered everything from magazine letters to novels. I loved every minute of it. I write on several sites, have had a selection of articles in National Magazines and two short stories on Kindle. Drop in on the following links to see my work:- http://www.infobarrel.com/signup.php?ref_id=75055 On infobarrel I have a variety of articles ranging from travel, food and drink, cats, retirement advice, golf and much more. On the following site, Webanswers, I've received plenty of clicks every day and I am continuing to make cash out of answering questions. This is my most successful site so far. http://www.webanswers.com/_r88gpe9gx I can also recommend Bubblews. It is also a great site for earning cash. Go to http://www.bubblews.com?referral=515afe538f43e4.86682309 Redgage is a great link, too. I use it mainly to display my photos. http://www.redgage.com/?refby=TerrieTez When I'm not writing I spend my time playing golf, entertaining my Birman cat and traveling. Thanks for taking the time to read my profile.
    terrietez says:

    Reblogged this on Cats and allsorts and commented:
    Whata great photo.

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  23. Dr. Denny Wilkins – Dr. Denny Wilkins professes journalism at a small, private university in the Northeast. He has climbed, hiked, kayaked, photographed, skied, and otherwise meandered aimlessly throughout the American West for decades. He has degrees in geology, environmental studies, and communication — and has tried to make use of them as a co-founder of the progressive cultural blog ScholarsandRogues.com. He’s broadly interested in how the world works and why it works that way. He hates writing, although he does like having written well.
    Dr. Denny says:

    I’m envious. Capturing a butterfly is difficult. This is superb.

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  25. simon7banks – Harwich, UK – I write poems and stories, often mystical or fantastical. I believe very strongly that poetry is an art of the spoken word, so the sound of the words is important: so please say my poems aloud, if only in your head. I live in the U.K., in Harwich, Essex, but have worked in Kenya and Finland, and travelled to many other places. This is my literary blog. I'm also a Liberal Democrat political activist, birder, long-distance trail walker, real ale drinker and Quaker.
    simon7banks says:

    On Friday, a Swallowtail landed on my hat!

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