Osprey and falcon

My birding and wildlife photography friends will enjoy this series of photos of a peregrine falcon attempting to steal a fish from an osprey.

http://www.raptorresource.org/anyboard9/forum/posts/10032.html#10041

With thanks to stephe.

Sea visits

You're always straining, pouring out,
a sail deflating when the wind fails.

Nothing bigger in the world
than small questions in the back seat,
hands digging sand
make charms from vertebrae of a carp.

Always sailing away;
The painting never gets it right.

You come a beggar to adult beaches
pockets billowing bankrupt.

Soul always replenishing
swollen with endless horizon.




~~~~~~~~~~

From some lines written on September 1.

And magic from the haiku generator

( automatic poetry )

Body Worlds; shopping with Brenna

St. Lawrence Market


Brenna and I spent Friday afternoon exploring Ontario Science Centre, especially Body Worlds 2, a temporary exhibit featuring 200 specimens of people who donated their bodies. It provides unprecedented insight into health and anatomy. It seems a bold undertaking, pushing buttons about the body as temple of a life. The average person never sees cadavers this way. A little gruesome, but mostly I was fascinated. Some specimens were presented as sculptures, people in lifelike postures. Their skin had been removed, rendering them unrecognizable. The one that sticks in my mind is Angel, named for the way her back muscles were dissected to reveal underlying nerves. She had gorgeous, long red hair.

Today’s shopping excursion was lighter. At St. Lawrence Market we bought lemons and poppy seeds to make Brenna’s birthday cake; also russet apples, a rare autumn treat. I took her to the Old Distillery to see glass bead makers, but her eyes lit up when we walked into Wildhagen hats. The new bead store on Roncesvalles Avenue doesn’t compare to Arton. We stopped at Romney Wools where Brenna help pick yarn for a scarf I plan to knit for Mom for Christmas: we chose orange and red Scheepjes Alpine.