tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post9076876836975241109..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Aram Saroyan: Replication and Variation (bird bird bird / eyeye)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80650488735900574702011-04-19T19:05:48.328-07:002011-04-19T19:05:48.328-07:00Julia, I would agree that the interior life of bir...Julia, I would agree that the interior life of birds is a great mystery to us. The exterior however, a great blessing, when we can catch a lucky glimpse of it. As did Vincent, with that Connecticut hummingbird. Or as does J.J. Harrison, with this brilliant bird photography, revealing the ineffable. Every exquisite feather of it. This is perhaps my favourite bird photographer, and wonderful with landscapes as well; in fact J.J. Harrison's great pictures have appeared here often, as it happens, sometimes under the interesting pseudonym "noodle snacks". Mother Nature must be the greatest of all artists, but with a photographer like this one (Australian, by the way), we might say a bit of that natural genius has rubbed off. <br /><br />And in today's aviary we also have Stephen's robin... and the orange plumage on Victor's chest protector.<br /><br />Sorry to be a bit slow responding to these sweet comments, by the way; house demolition in agonizing stops and starts again here this week, more rain complicating matters... the best thing I can think to say of life amongst us ancient wingless creatures at the moment would be, it's for the birds.<br /><br />And the next best thing I can think to say is: more orange! more orange!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91522289609481384802011-04-19T09:11:04.262-07:002011-04-19T09:11:04.262-07:00Samara Pearlstein: Replication and Victor(y)
Tom...Samara Pearlstein: Replication and Victor(y)<br /><br />Tom,<br /><br />Read this right after you. From the Grand Mistress of Tigers bloggers, her recent observations of plumage at the Oakland Aviary:<br /><br />“Victor Martinez caught Coke, and he had his away gear on. He <br />is still using Mizuno so his chest protector…is navy blue and…<br />NEON ORANGE. I love it so hard. More orange, more, MOAR!<br /><br />…Speaking of Victor, he also took a foul tip off the replicators <br />in this one.”kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48626588934997137212011-04-19T06:45:02.032-07:002011-04-19T06:45:02.032-07:00Here in Connecticut I saw a hummingbird on August ...Here in Connecticut I saw a hummingbird on August 21st in the backyard.VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-151205264625897132011-04-19T06:41:47.882-07:002011-04-19T06:41:47.882-07:00correction, "lighght"correction, "lighght"STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54260206172840990762011-04-19T06:38:52.009-07:002011-04-19T06:38:52.009-07:00Tom,
lighgt / morni,ng / and that robin robin ro...Tom,<br /> <br />lighgt / morni,ng / and that robin robin robin still calling calling calling . . . .<br /><br /><br />4.19<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />ridge, robin calling on branch in right<br />foreground, no sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> sort of actual, as evidence<br /> therefore of present<br /><br /> part of the whole, position<br /> “abstract,” material<br /><br />grey-white fog against invisible ridge,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35818417753261153402011-04-18T17:50:21.248-07:002011-04-18T17:50:21.248-07:00So beautiful. So little. And so distant. Birds are...So beautiful. So little. And so distant. Birds are always distant and a mystery. But you make them look always close to us.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6726429194395813772011-04-18T09:04:49.487-07:002011-04-18T09:04:49.487-07:00Putting together "parts of world made habitab...Putting together "parts of world made habitable (again). . . .", here, and yes, what joy, a birding trip to Thailand.<br /><br />(Though to be an insect in Thailand, with so many beautiful but keen-eyed and sharp-beaked insectivorous woodland "friends" in every tree and bush -- possibly somewhat fraught?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15518413525547617322011-04-18T08:35:38.621-07:002011-04-18T08:35:38.621-07:00Tom,
Thanks for such sightings (these birds &...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for such sightings (these birds & Aram's words), whose 'reappearances' here resonate as parts of world made habitable (again). . . .<br /><br />4.18<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, robin calling on branch in right<br />foreground, no sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> still in the same direction,<br /> make pictures out of<br /><br /> everything, only appearance<br /> of surfaces, what is<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />sunlit white cloud against top of ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49122760614828054472011-04-18T08:26:57.679-07:002011-04-18T08:26:57.679-07:00I think "replication and variation" says...I think "replication and variation" says it all. I guess "sizing" is implicit in "replication". The poems are just the right size for the birds. Obviously, a birding trip to Thailand would be astonishing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com