Photo Challenge: Shiny

August 21, 2017 / Anna Blake / No Comments

 





Birdwatching in the dark

is an art best practiced

with no yard light. Start

just after the colors are

gone from the horizon and


the leftover sheen of the day

lingers, waiting for the spark

of stars just dawning. Birds

are easier to locate at this

thoughtful time when the


beginning of dark quiets the

trees. Of course, you’ll want

to be near a barn. That’s the

place where the wild world

intermingles with those we


like to believe are domestic.

“Look up,” says the old white

gelding, and I do, seeing a

watermelon on a high wire.

“She has no neck,” I answer,


“it’s an owl,” as she turns to

show her horns. Then she lifts

away without a sound, taking the

ghost gelding with her, leaving

me standing on stardust and dirt.




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Anna Blake at Infinity Farm




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(WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. I take these photos with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high-tech.)




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    Beautiful description of my favorite time of day.  Just a few nights ago an owl swooped past my deck where I was sitting.  Ghostly, silvery and without a sound.  I felt blessed.
    
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    I’m with you Anna! Dawn and dusk are those sacred times when I’m privileged to witness what so many others never have a chance to see. I have noticed that the silence is filled with sounds when I concentrate and listen. There is a richness to what goes on in life that positively dwarfs my human status. I love it.
    
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    I’m with you Anna! Dawn and dusk are those sacred times when I’m privileged to witness what so many others never have a chance to see. I have noticed that the silence is filled with sounds when I concentrate and listen. There is a richness to what goes on in life that positively dwarfs my human status. I love it.
    
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    Absolutely gorgeous. You capture the thin time and place between night and day perfectly. Wow. Have you read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? The trilogy is a long meditation on what happens when the thin place goes threadbare and other worlds bleed into each other and people travel between them. It’s achingly beautiful as is this poem. I will be catching dawn when I walk the dogs in the not too distant future…
    
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