Pelican Limerick

"A wonderful bird is the Pelican,

His beak can hold more than his belly can.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week!

But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?"

- Dixon Lanier Merrit

c. 1912

What one feels

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

- Gustave Flaubert

Quiet

"Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?  Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends?  Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house?  Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully."

- Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth 

Portrait

Out for a duck

Something pretty to offset yesterday's rant...

The birds were photographed at the pans near the salt works just outside of Swakopmund at Mile 6.  I love their colours.  These are Cape Teal ducks.  I still have to ID their little flying friend...

Why sing?

Majestic Flight

"In order to see birds

one must become 

part of the silence."

Robert Lynd