Dear Blog,
I’m sorry to have neglected you lo this past (almost) year.
To make it up to you, here is a picture of a Great Blue
Heron eating a gopher she has hunted down and killed in a cemetery.
I have seen Great Blue Herons hunting in wetlands many times,
spearing with their dagger-like beaks unsuspecting fishes or frogs as they swim
by. But a heron hunting gophers on dry land in a historic Mendocino cemetery? Well,
this was a first for me.
When today started, I had a simple goal. I was going to
photograph the first compelling thing I saw on my way to work, and I was going
to post it on my blog with a commentary. But my walk this morning was
relatively peaceful and uneventful, and as I passed one of the oldest
cemeteries in town on the way to my job, I was losing all hope of anything materializing
that was noteworthy enough to re-start this whole blogging business.
But then, less than fifty feet from my office, there she was,
a creature completely out of her element. A thing unexpected. A thing figuring
out how to survive in a strange environment. A thing adapting, learning,
growing... A thing killing rodents instead of frogs and fishes - rodents that
have sharp teeth. And stabby claws.
She was a thing killing things and eating things in a place filled
with killed things who themselves were being eaten by the things being killed
and eaten by her.
And so has been my life.
Love,
Jen
omg.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best post in over a year, Jendo!
I too have been looking @ my blog, thinking, geez maybe today I will write something. You inspire!
Good to see you back @ it.
Awesome post. Wow, you ask and you receive. perfectly. I am also trying to get back to my beloved neglected blog. Was just looking over some old posts and came across your comments. Welcome back :-)
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