Grasping bursts

Grasping bursts
Drops to overflowing
Let slip
as overflows slip.

On the swing

Bird moment:
On the swing
At ease, melodic
even whilst on perch.

Bird tale

Bird moment:
Love,
love openly.

Bird moment:
Love,
love freely.

Bird tale:
Love,
love openly
love freely.

"My destination ...."

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

"The whole idea of stereotype ...."

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Chinua Achebe

Red-throated Barbet (f)

Red-crowned Barbet 

Blue-eared Barbet

Gold-whiskered Barbet

Yellow-crowned Barbet 

Sooty Barbet

Black-browed Barbet

"Joy and woe are woven fine"

Joy and woe are woven fine,

A clothing for the soul divine.

Under every grief and pine


Runs a joy with silken twine.

--> 
William Blake 

"We do not see nature ...."

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

--> William Hazlitt