June 16, 2025
Happy Happy Birthday, Bersky!!!!!
I can't believe you are a middle aged man with a career and family. I love you so dearly.



drawn by EJ
I got to the Coop around 1.   My leg was screaming for me to just stay off of it.  I made the decision to not go to the pool and to go to the chiropractor at 2.  When I arrived at the coop there were two ravens having a major discussion about something .  One was sitting on the lamppost above my car and the other was circling the parking lot and occasionally standing across from the first and making a terrible noise.  It was high raven drama.  None of my photos came out.  





The chiropractor set my knee.  It was still slightly ajar and the muscles around it were clumped up not letting anything move freely inside or out.  He did an adjustment, told me to come back on Wednesday and to stay quiet.  I went home to sleep.

When I got up I went to the rookery at about 5:30.  The amount of song birds singing was extraordinary and quite beautiful.  By this time it was clouded over and the temperature had gone down a little.  There were turtles, deer and rabbits around.  It's a perfect time to visit the hills.  
I think his shell has been harmed, but he was moving alright.  He hung out for 10 minutes or so and then headed towards the water.  I couldn't tell how crushed the back of the shell was. 


Being without my camera is like being without my leg and being without both of them is making me quite lost.  I have to tell you it is worse than being without my car.   I shouldn't say that, I'll jinx myself.  


The mountain laurel has been in full bloom this week.  I'm so glad others have photographed it.  It really is one of my favorite things about summer.   

I think my leg is on the mend.  It'll be ready just in time for my eye surgery.  I'm not sure I'm tolerating this aging stuff very well.  I need to be even more intentional about self care.  

I've also been unable to write anything for real in 2 weeks.  I'm a featured reader on July 5th.  I'm going to have to put something together towards the goal of creating a manuscript.  I'm going to begin to pull the first section together.   

Tomorrow I will again be calm all day.  I'm did a lot of breathing today.  Intentional, that's the name of the game.  



 

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