Without Lifting A Finger

In Michigan for a bit. Mostly birds @ Mom's feeder, wood ducks down the road (very skittish and far away), and a few cranes in a nearby field.

Another poem (making three total now) -- Sevilla -- has been posted at Bookends Review. Very short. Thanks to Jordan Blum (editor) for his generosity in accepting my poems. http://thebookendsreview.com/2022/08/22/sevilla/ #rlswihart13 #poetry #thebookendsreview #sevilla

Surfbird @ White Point Beach in San Pedro. Lifer. Saw him the first time (out of three) and never again. Right in the middle of the Black Turnstones standing on one leg (hope the other one is tucked in).  #rlswihart13 #sanpedroca #whitepointbeach #birdsofinstagram #surfbirdsofamerica #surfbird #birdphotos #lifers #nature #poetry #beauty #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine 🇺🇦

A new poem is up @ Bookends Review: Shelter Valley. The link is below but also in my bio. Please check it out.:) http://thebookendsreview.com/2022/08/12/shelter-valley/ #rlswihart13 #bookendsreview #sheltervalley #newpoetry #poetry #rlswihart #nature #poetry

Saw several Spotted Sandpipers this morning @ White Point, but none as trim & spotted as this beauty (the backdrop isn't bad either).  #rlswihart13 #sanpedroca #whitepointbeach #sandpipersofinstagram #spottedsandpiper #nature #naturephotography #birdphotography #beauty #poetry #readmorepoetry2022 #ukraine 🇺🇦

At this point Mr. Golyadkin very appropriately remembered a novel he had read long ago in which the heroine, in precisely similar circumstances, signaled to Alfred by tying a pink ribbon to her window. But now, at night, in the climate of Petersburg, famous for its dampness and unreliability, a pink ribbon was hardly appropriate and, in fact, was utterly out of the question.