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| Great Blue Heron
Today was a very relaxed day. I got a good workout in the morning while breakfast was cooking. We took a quick drive into town to get a car...and here, right on the side of the road, was a great blue heron, roosting in the top of a tree. He didn't mind us much at all. We turned the car around, we talked, we got lots of different angles...and he moved his head just once. He was where he wanted to be, and we weren't going to frighten him away!
The amazing thing about the photos are the things I can't see with my bare eyes. For instance, on the top photo, if you look to the left of the heron, you see a mass in a branch. It's probably an oriole's nest. I have one just like it in my maple tree in the back yard. In the lower photo, you can see the two feathers that jut out at the heron's neck. I couldn't see them, either - but now I can. This project is giving me more than the gift of noticing what's always been right in front of me - it's also giving a gift of seeing more clearly, of finding detail I can't otherwise discern.
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