St. Patrick's Day: swans at the Sunrise River pools
Photo by J. Harrington
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St. Patrick's Day: swans at the Sunrise River pools
Photo by J. Harrington
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In a related event, while taking the pictures we heard, but did not see, a red-winged blackbird. Spring is here. No, we hadn't any thought of dyeing the swans green in honor of the day. But we will share an Irish blessing with you because, as we know, these days we can all use all the help we can get.
May the road rise to meet you,
and the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm on your face
and the rains fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again
May God hold you gently in the palm of his hand.
Two Ivory Swans
Moya Cannon
Two Ivory Swansfly across a display caseas they flew across Siberian tundratwenty thousand years ago,heralding thaw on an inland sea,their wings, their necks, stretched, stretchedvulnerable, magnificent.Their whooping set off a harmonicin someone who looked up,registered the imageof the great journeying birdsand, with a hunter-gatherer’s handcarved their tiny white likenessesfrom the tip of the tuskof the greatest of all land-mammals,wore them for a while,or traded or gifted thembefore they were dropped down time’s echoing chute,to emerge, strong-winged,whooping,to fly across our time.The British Museum, April, 2013
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Please be kind to each other while you can.
River covered in swans...lovely at any distance.
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