March 11, 2025
My Pa
and
Happy Birthday,
Gabe!!!!




In the last week of July in 2010 I bent over Mom, close to her and told her her granddaughter, Maddie, was pregnant and her quiet response was, "of course she is."
Mom and I shared a belief that when one soul went out another came in, she the out, Gabe was the in.  He was born March 11, 2011, the anniversary of his great grandfather's death 39 years earlier. And now he is 14 and a kind and smart young man.


Before I went to photograph birds, Herb took me out to lunch for his belated birthday.  I ate EJ's favorite lunch in their honor.  So good.  I am good to myself on this day that always makes me feel tender.  Life is hard at the moment and people are angry for good reason.  But today I needed to be tender.  Today I needed kindness.  


64 degrees at the canal at 3.

At least 300 birds
and bright blue skies
pairs of swan
dotted Migratory Way.
Sounds of geese
honking dominate
by echoing.
Still no eagle.  It maybe
too early for them
to hunt.








The moon isn't full yet, but it certainly looked that way at 5:30.  Hope I can take it on the 13th



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