Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. The Waste Land is not an easy poem to teach, but I’ve always liked teaching it anyway. There’s so much to contend with, even in that overly familiar opening stanza. I love that phrase–“forgetful snow.” We got 12 inches […]
Tag Archives: birds
Sandia Summer
I’m in Albuquerque this week, in the foothills of the Sandia mountains, enjoying a holiday with friends. And by friends, I mean the Texas Blue Scale Quail that inhabit the backyard: The exotic orange-eyed Curve-Billed Thrashers that hop about in the sage and the cone flowers: And the gorgeous roses. This is “Party Time,” an […]
Everglades
I finally have a chance to post some photos from our trip to The Everglades. We saw so many birds: herons, ibises, pelicans, gallinules. Here’s a beautiful anhinga: Nesting with young: A purple gallinule: And, of course, an alligator: