in May, the yaks come back
Photo by J. Harrington
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That's probably just as well for one of the neighbors. They've a small herd of yaks that they pasture nearby during the warmer months. We noticed them this morning as we drove past. Given the length of yak hair(?) - fur(?), it might be dangerous for the animals to drive them between Beltane fires to purify them.
May is the month for turtle travel
Photo by J. Harrington
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If the weather isn't too far out of whack, May should be the month for wild flowers and turtles. At least, May is the month when we have the most pictures of wild flowers and turtles. Another contender this May might be sandhill cranes. Several just flew, trumpeting, over the house. We were standing on the deck with both dogs, surveying the status of things in our domain, when crane calls from directly overhead, and not very high, startled the dickens out of all three of us. May could turn out to be more exciting than we've been anticipating. Stay tuned!
Turtle
By Kay Ryan
Who would be a turtle who could help it?A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet,she can ill afford the chances she must takein rowing toward the grasses that she eats.Her track is graceless, like dragginga packing-case places, and almost any slopedefeats her modest hopes. Even being practical,she's often stuck up to the axle on her wayto something edible. With everything optimal,she skirts the ditch which would converther shell into a serving dish. She livesbelow luck-level, never imagining some lotterywill change her load of pottery to wings.Her only levity is patience,the sport of truly chastened things.
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