Random observations #phenology

• Male goldfinches in July sunlight are bright enough to hurt your eyes.
  
  

  

  male goldfinches at feeder in May
  

  Photo by J. Harrington

  
  
• The only true example of trickle-down economics I've found is at our bird feeder. Finches and grosbeaks and chickadees feed at the elevated feeder. Cardinals and chipmunks and some turkeys feed on the ground below.
  
  
• "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" suggests interdependence, not interdependence. We live in the United States, not the Independent States. Our Brexit was a Civil War.
  
  
• We live in a beautiful, fruitful part of the world and are (very slowly) learning to take better care of it.
  
  
• The comings and goings of birds, butterflies and chipmunks, especially chipmunks, observed from inside a screen patio, are akin to great TV for our dogs.
  
  
• When Minnesota has weather like this weekend, San Diegans(?) can eat their hearts out.
  
  
• Fields of grasses are just beginning to be washed with the tawny shades of Autumn.
  
  
• I am not Robinson, but might once have been.
  

Robinson Escapes to the Cape for Independence Day

By Kathleen Rooney

O little-know facts—how Robinson attracts them!

Pilgrims rocked ashore here, before Plymouth Rock.

The word scrimshaw is of unknown origin.

The stock name of the archaic two-lane main road? Route 6A. Really

it’s Old King’s Highway.

Some facts are useless: the paper bag was invented in Dennis.

Some facts are not: Wellfleet’s town clock sings out ship’s time.

19^th century Americans observed only three holidays. The Fourth of

July was one.

O witty aperçus—how Robinson accrues them!

Good food is self-made, like a good millionaire.

Don’t just do something. Stand there.

It’s got to be the weekend somewhere.

Robinson is crisp & perspicuous. His wife stands next to him on the

sand.

Democracy could be a lot more sexy if . . . this one fades in the rockets’

red glare.

Ann blushes, runs a hand through his hair.

Robinson looks up, concussed.

Fireworks percuss.

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