on the feeder

Early morning here with my second cup of coffee in hand. It's busy on the feeder outside the family room window. I'm guessing that I'm seeing the intersection of winter residents and late season migrants: red-bellied woodpecker, morning dove, house finch, Carolina chickadees, tufted tit mice, juncos, white breasted nuthatches,cardinals (one pair), yellow-bellied sapsucker, house wren, blue jays, red breasted nuthatch,... wow.

Word Piracy

Ever think about how some words have been hijacked by commercial interests along the information highway? Have wonderful, evocative words like "adobe," "acrobat," and "amazon," lost something as they've been co-opted by corporations? But then some words, like amazon, have multiple meanings--female warriors, river flowing from the Peruvian Andes,...--and have evolved nicely over the years.

I suppose Humpty Dumpty had it right.

Peggy named this guy "Earl." Perfect!