I Swear To GOD I've Tried...

  

 

Link to MaddowBlog

 

"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.

 His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University."

 

~Mitt Romney

 

I swear to god that I have tried to tune out all the noise, including Donald Trump, who is mostly wind, but today he hit a new low in politicizing the plane crash that occurred in Washington D.C. and I just can't sit quiet! He's such a jackass. He took the oath of office a little over 10 days ago, and in the time he has done a lot of damage across government, but to imply that the crash happened because of DEI and democrats, with NO PROOF, is not just stupid, it is beyond cruel to the victims, families of the victims, and their friends. It sometimes take years to fully investigate the cause of the crash. YEARS! So truly, save me your conspiracy theories! I am trying so hard to not sit here with deep anger, and deep sadness, but I find myself failing magnificently. I should be posting a photo of a glorious bird, but instead Ellipsis is filing another example of yet another deep low Donald Trump has reached and how it affects a little fish like me. I am already tired.

Tomorrow I will post something of beauty.

I promise.

 

UPDATE...

 

 

By the way, this happened in the week before the crash.

 

 

 

 

I Went On A Winter Walk In My Wheelchair

 

Cosumnes River Wetlands Walk

Galt, California

January 15th, 2025

 

 

“At this season of the year, darkness

 is a more insistent thing than cold.

 The days are short as any dream.” 

 
~E.B. White

 

  Essays of E.B. White

 

I am slowly finding the beauty of winter. I will never be a winter person, my arthritis and scoliosis won't allow it, but I forgot how interesting shadows can be. I can see more birds because the leaves have all fallen from the trees, although I will post tomorrow about a truly beautiful leaf I found on the Consumes River Wetlands Walk. Winter brings new sounds from the sky. I am up to 69 birds in the file for 2025. That's roughly half of what I go all last year, and I will probably add more tomorrow, when I go to Monterey! I am looking forward to real life for a while. I will be back to posting about politics at some point, but for now, there is winter in the real world.

 

 

 

And Your Point?

 

“Legal plunder has two roots: One of them,

 as I have said before, is in human greed; 

the other is in false philanthropy.” 

 
~Frédéric Bastiat,

  The Law

 

This happened 10 days ago, and today he becomes president. It doesn't matter, I have given up. I have no more shits to give. If America is this damn stupid, why the actual fuck should I try to change their mind? How dare I! Today, rather than face his disgusting inauguration, I am off to find some new birds for the file, and afterwards enjoy a lovely dinner out with my husband. In other words, I am not going to give him the power I did the last time around. I am going to enjoy my life as much as possible. Oh, I am sure I will vent my anxieties from time to time, but for the most part, I am choosing to be happy!

 

I am really going to try to be a whole person.

 

Sigh. God I miss, Dylan.

 

 

Happy New Year, 2025

 

Yes, I'm back, and with plenty to say, but just not today. Today I am off to do some birding, as this is the first day of our birding adventure for the year. So, see you tomorrow, when I will get the whole thing caught up. The thing I refer to as, LIFE, then and now.

 

See you then. 

 

Happy New Year!

 

If It's The Holiday Season, It Must Be Covid-19 *UPDATE

 

“The decisions and choices that we make in society today will have a direct impact on the number of people who get hospitalized (with COVID-19) two weeks from now."

Jay Varkey, ID physician, Facebook Live

 Alan tested positive this morning. The current strain of Covid-19 making the round is Omicron Sub-variant XEC, so it's more than likely what he has. So far he has only mild symptoms, which I am grateful for. I suppose, in that we are in the same house, I will be getting it soon. I am beginning to get some symptoms. Scratchy throat, aches, etc. Sigh. We wear our masks, wash our hands frequently, I don't know what to say. Everywhere I go, everyone is mask free, and pretty much acting like it never existed. Perfect. Thanks unvaccinated assholes. Here we are. Please folks. I beg you, do your reading. Get vaccinated. WEAR YOUR DAMN MASKS! Stay home if you are feeling unwell stay home! As was pointed out the first time around, entire families DO NOT NEED TO SHOP TOGETHER!

 

XEC Information

 

Sigh. I don't know what the next few days or weeks will be like, but I will probably take a few days or perhaps a week off from posting anywhere, so I will post my autumn leaves in one large post at a later time. Love autumn while it is here. Those little leaves travel a whole year to reach us, they are good for the soul, so enjoy whatever leaves are left.

 

I will try to update soon, even if it is just an emoji.

READ UP FOLKS, PRETTY SOON WE WILL BE ON OUR OWN.

UPDATE

 My body is not very happy right now. 12/15/24

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #82

 

“Autumn"

Again the wind
flakes gold-leaf from the trees
and the painting darkens—
as if a thousand penitents
kissed an icon
till it thinned
back to bare wood,
without diminishment."

 

~Sara Addison Allen
The Paris ReviewIssue 109,

  Winter 1988”

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #81

 “Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.” 

 

 ~Elizabeth Chadwick

  The Autumn Throne

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #80

 

“In the autumn, the entire backyard became a mass of lollipop-yellow leaves, so bright they lit up the night like daylight. Birds nesting in the trees would get confused because they couldn't tell what time of day it was, and they would stay awake for days until they dropped out of the branches with exhaustion.” 

~Sarah Addison Allen

  The Peach Keeper

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #79

 

“Autumn...the grace in letting dead things fall.” 

~Darnell Lamont Walkermont Walker

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #78

 

“That is the way the leaves fall round an autumn  tree; it is unaware of it, rain runs down it, it is subjected to sun or frost and life slowly retreats. It does not die. It waits.” 

~Hermann Hesse,

  Demian

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #77

 “Nature is an alchemist,
gathering the last of summer’s green
and turning it to gold.” 

~Laura Jaworski 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #75 And #76

 

 

 

 

 “Autumn burned
Deep red and amber,
An inferno of intense
Terrifying beauty,
Devouring feverishly
Everything in
Her path.” 

~L.S.

 

 

Okay, so life gets busy. I'll share about that in the next couple days. I have some good reasons, it is the holiday season after all. Anyway, here are the two leaves I owe my Ellipsis, with more to come. Something beautiful to look forward to, as autumn kisses the earth goodnight for another year. I am already grieving it, as I do every year about this time. But autumn doesn't ever go quietly. Look at the vibrancy of a life well lived!

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #74

 

“Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand.”

 
~Donna Lynn Hope 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #73

 

“Rest your eyes well before September

 because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them!”

 
~Mehmet Murat ildan 

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #72

 

There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; 

so much separation and so much sorrow!

~Mehmet Murat Ildan

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #71

 

The Passing

 by Stewart Stafford

In the gorgeous death of Autumn,
Tree-bowed alms for the wind,
Sacrificing eye-catching features,
Now primed for Winter, skinned.

Organic shaded palaces looted,
Shells of once-shimmering things,
Shorn of their prettified plumage,
Until born again the following Spring.

Everything is recycled in Nature,
Dead leaves compost the soil,
Turning wheel of rampant Summer,
No memories in the humid broil.

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #70

 

“It was the best time of the year. Frost at night and warm, sunny days, when the yellows and oranges of the aspen and cottonwoods did something to the blue of the sky behind them that an artist might never mimic.” 

~Peter Heller,

  Celine

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #69

 

“Sleep now a little while
Till within our dreams we wake
Unfolding our Forever
If only for Never’s sake

And take me to your ever after
Let’s hide behind our eyes
Together pour through that door
Where autumn never dies

And I’ll sift my sands to your side
Before we slip away
Before we’re little more than silt
Beneath the rocking waves

And side by side we’ll fight the tide
That sweeps in to take us down
And hand in hand we’ll both withstand
Even as we drown.” 

~Kelly Creagh,

  Enshadowed

 

 

Autumn Leaf Of The Day #68

 

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?"

 

 ~Charlie Brown

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving 2024

 

Yes, it's true, this Thanksgiving will be very different, but it's the little things that will get me by, like holding onto the whimsy when I can. My amazing, husband is making dinner tonight, so what more can I ask for on this day? 

 

I am thankful, for this one day.

 

“Give thanks as if you are living just to appreciate life. Live as if your life depends on love, kindness, gratitude, and thanksgiving.” 

 ~Debasish Mridha