tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3483576106693771984..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: DilemmaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88184131417286303392011-03-28T03:16:30.473-07:002011-03-28T03:16:30.473-07:00Yes, though it may be our company sometimes seems ...Yes, though it may be our company sometimes seems less than excellent to them -- things being relative, that is.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30979505715486159762011-03-28T00:22:30.105-07:002011-03-28T00:22:30.105-07:00Great post. To talk of the relative worlds, birds ...Great post. To talk of the relative worlds, birds are an excellent company to keep.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66301448602202447852011-03-23T08:28:53.419-07:002011-03-23T08:28:53.419-07:00Brilliant comments all. I am considering obtaining...Brilliant comments all. I am considering obtaining a red tufted crest. <br /><br />Every viewpoint expressed so far has its merits.<br /><br />Someone, however, who has latterly been exposed to <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/crested-wood-partridge-rollulus-rouloul.html" rel="nofollow">this further evidence</a>, is now convinced that<br />the red splash in the background is the foot of a female Crested Wood Partridge, perching comfortably on one leg (as, in the video evidence attached to the above, one of these clever birds is seen to do).<br /><br />Perhaps that might be described as the "stand and wait" posture.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46774979651448165852011-03-23T07:35:11.884-07:002011-03-23T07:35:11.884-07:00Tom and Someone,
Perhaps we could say it's a ...Tom and Someone,<br /><br />Perhaps we could say it's a particularly beautiful fuchsia-colored left (or maybe right?) foot. . . .<br /><br /><br />3.23<br /><br />light coming into cloud against shadowed<br />green ridge, sparrow calling from branch<br />in foreground, waves sounding in channel<br /><br /> sense of past elsewhere, is<br /> particular in traces<br /><br /> to experience, picture each<br /> occasion, only it is<br /><br />grey white clouds to the left of point,<br />silver of drops splashing into channelSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22019353837330961242011-03-23T06:56:26.021-07:002011-03-23T06:56:26.021-07:00does seem to have a bit of a neural resonance
and...does seem to have a bit of a neural resonance<br /><br />and that kind of semiological recapitulation which returns itself<br />to wonder<br /><br />where the banal<br />is disturbed by beauty<br />and beauty by the banal<br /><br />and where the distribution<br />of disturbances<br /><br />leads an other essence<br />to stir<br /><br />what timidness<br />is there in the sculpting<br />of a chirp?<br /><br />a chirp is like a cannon <br />whose every molecule<br />is both a sigh<br />and a flowering<br /><br />an approach<br />which returnsPhanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89209096253271862252011-03-22T15:20:34.843-07:002011-03-22T15:20:34.843-07:00............:)............:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81693216853126602632011-03-22T14:26:47.387-07:002011-03-22T14:26:47.387-07:00I agree with "someone"
it IS "...I agree with "someone" <br /> it IS "a fuchsia blossom"<br /><br />when you get to be my age<br />you can certainly tell <br />a<br />blood-red chicken leg<br />from an <br /> erotic<br /><br />fuchsia blossom !<br /><br /><br /><br />where's the "pear tree"?<br /><br />where is<br /><br />anything?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64816217138354938572011-03-22T12:47:18.163-07:002011-03-22T12:47:18.163-07:00I'm pretty sure that's a one-legged partri...I'm pretty sure that's a one-legged partridge hiding in the background. I can see part of its beak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65719665814743987752011-03-22T12:28:19.887-07:002011-03-22T12:28:19.887-07:00I do not post to disagree just to say what I think...I do not post to disagree just to say what I thinkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30053198229684878692011-03-22T11:30:27.911-07:002011-03-22T11:30:27.911-07:00I'm sorry, but I have to disagree here with So...I'm sorry, but I have to disagree here with Someone.<br />But the good thing is that I completely agree with you, Tom. And I can see the second foot slightly behind the first one (is very out of focus, but there it is).<br />A beautiful bird and a beautiful post as usual.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67460097596380333052011-03-22T10:44:17.958-07:002011-03-22T10:44:17.958-07:00two dilemmas...!two dilemmas...!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58275804912615221732011-03-22T09:23:26.406-07:002011-03-22T09:23:26.406-07:00Curtis, know what you mean about the suspended ani...Curtis, know what you mean about the suspended animation.<br /><br />Meanwhile, on the ornithological front...<br /><br />Someone here speculated at first that the bright red shape directly above the red tuft of the partridge is a fuchsia blossom.<br /><br />I contended that it is in fact the foot of another partridge. <br /><br />A shy partridge, shrinking from view and half-concealed beneath a leaf.<br /><br />And where then is the second foot? it was sensibly countered.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70292241689420312002011-03-22T09:11:47.839-07:002011-03-22T09:11:47.839-07:00I like the contrast of black feathers that I imagi...I like the contrast of black feathers that I imagine very bright and the red tuft...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41746017470710819912011-03-22T08:49:02.437-07:002011-03-22T08:49:02.437-07:00Very beautiful and helpful this morning. Thank yo...Very beautiful and helpful this morning. Thank you. This entire situation (Japan and Libya) seems like an event of suspended animation, which seems like a petty and irrelevant complaint on my part.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63619405461590745192011-03-22T08:44:16.800-07:002011-03-22T08:44:16.800-07:00Partridges are generally modest in their plumage, ...Partridges are generally modest in their plumage, though of course to other partridges it probably doesn't seem that way.<br /><br />But this one is a real beauty. <br /><br />What can we do but pray and hope for something good on the wind for Japan (and everyone).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63269016747897514922011-03-22T08:44:15.791-07:002011-03-22T08:44:15.791-07:00Tom,
Speaking and silence
Partridges chirp among...Tom,<br /><br />Speaking and silence<br /><br />Partridges chirp among the scented blossoms<br /><br /><br />3.22<br /><br />shadowed shape of cloud in pale blue sky<br />above ridge, sparrow calling from branch<br />in foreground, waves sounding in channel<br /><br /> in line of descent from one<br /> more, version of same<br /><br /> places of sound in thinking,<br /> still to notice, what<br /><br />white of cloud above shoulder of ridge,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54143947655695963822011-03-22T08:30:00.953-07:002011-03-22T08:30:00.953-07:00what a beautiful bird...I have never seen it...! &...what a beautiful bird...I have never seen it...! "scented blossoms in Kónan..." I pray for thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com