How would I look, if my body gleamed
With the sheen of metal?


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First my daughter had two Banjara girls, whom she asked to thread together various name beads for all of KTB's friends at Urban Sprouts, the daycare back home:


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We visited a few homes for the golu, and I was most impressed by the collection of dolls the ladies seem to have acquired over the years:


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I was walking to meet Eliot Miller and his girlfriend, Sarah, both of whom are postdocs in bird science; Eliot is studing at UMSSL, and called me over to go birding with them.

I suddenly heard a lot of disturbance in a tree nearby, and stopped to investigate. Here's what I saw:


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I made post of the beautiful

WOOD DUCK


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Boat House, Forest Park, 140913


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Ruth was kind enough to take me to the Lewis and Clark Historical Center, Hartford, Illinois, venue of the Hummingbird Festival. We were going to watch the

RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS

being caught, banded and released...


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Some names from the past that just go together...Hall and Stevens (geometry), Wren and Martin (English grammar), Swan and Edgar (shopping in London), Lakshmikant and Pyarelal, Shankar and Jaikishen (Hindi film music) Viswanathan and Ramamurthy (Tamizh film music), Simon and Garfunkel (pop music ( Read more... )

Milk...is white...and the job of feeding it to a baby every day (and the other care associated with it) can be bland and boring.

But when you least expect it, like a baby's toothless smile, or the sight of two fat legs kicking when I am changing the nappies....colour hits me.


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