Current background,
from my office window: A big
pileated woodpecker stabbing –
very loudly – a series of hollows
in a semi-dead tree out front.
Foreground: Thickets of
cheepy wrens — I guess
they’re wrens — over and
under the azalea bushes
by the window.
In the back garden,
it’s all robins.
They’re diving into
our leafy gutters.
Nest material? I have
no idea what birds
do in November.
Raking has been a
pleasure on these
cool, light, and windy
autumn mornings.
Right now, on the
back deck, mourning
doves mass around
the birdbath.
In the evenings, from
the deck, I can just
make out full moons
behind all the high
branches in our forest.
I think back to my time
at the beach last week,
and how the cosmos
comes right up to your
balcony there. I love
Garrett Park’s arboretum,
but I miss the night sky.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:06AM
The bottoms of your leafy gutters are supremely good places for little worms and bugs to be living, especially if you don’t scrape the gunk out regularly.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:15AM
Ah. Hadn’t thought of that, tp. We must have ancient worm and bug kingdoms down there.