I thought to end the year on a positive note, as strange as that may be given the wretched state of the world. Nevertheless, to end on a note of beauty that is or should be common to all of us brings a certain contentment. And that is the beauty of butterflies, whose colors are so often magnificent.
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Head turning
I’ve been honored to be included in the wonderful dinosaur blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, since it was covering raptor head turning, for which I had a number of photos. The posting is entitled, “More raptors with their heads on backwards.”
Good riddance
Dick Cheney died yesterday. Way back when, in my cartooning days, I drew a cartoon in his “honor,” featuring Bush Jr. and Cheney.
A bald eagle release
Thanks in large part to the U.S. government, the world is becoming a worse and worse place; nevertheless, good things do happen. Earlier, in September, I photographed the release of a 10-year-old bald eagle after successful rehabilitation by Centre Wildlife Care.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla – while in international waters – was attacked by Israel. The boats and humanitarian aid were seized and crew and passengers kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel. Most of the flotilla participants have been released, but there is little good news to report. A flotilla from Turkey (with humanitarian aid) was also seized.
Another flotilla is sailing toward Gaza, and perhaps with the so-called peace deal in place, it will get through.
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Global Sumud Flotilla
“The Global Sumud Flotilla is a coordinated, nonviolent fleet of mostly small vessels sailing from ports across the Mediterranean to break the Israeli occupation’s illegal siege on Gaza.”
Wishing them good luck!
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A springtime walk
Personally, with all the horror of the present world, particularly the devastation in Gaza and the West Bank, I find it difficult to concentrate; however, a walk outdoors during spring returns a certain amount of joy (and I wish that such a walk would be available to everyone). To begin, what indicates spring more than anything else is bird song. (I’ve delayed this post for ages, but I’m determined to have a voice again.)
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A walk at night
On Saturday, February 1, the night was particularly clear, along with a crescent moon and nearby Venus. What better way to avoid thinking about world disasters than by seeing something beautiful and eternal: the night sky.
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Given the dire state of the world, I thought to begin the New Year with something attractive: A photo sequence of a pileated woodpecker family.
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A friend and I were discussing the sad events in West Asia (otherwise known as the Middle East) and Ukraine, and he had the best one-paragraph summary of the whole situation:
Events in the Middle East and Ukraine continue to be horrifying and are not likely to improve once the orange man takes up the reins. The irony of the US supporting a head-chopping Sunni Jihadist with a US bounty on his head beggars belief. His group, run by the CIA, MI-6, and Mossard, are busily slaughtering Christians and people in other Islamic cults. Barbarous. Meanwhile, the Palestine genocide continues. So we have one bunch of psychos who are following a ‘kill ’em all and let Allah sort them out policy, and another bunch following a ‘kill ’em all and let Yaweh sort ’em out. And the latter bunch, the Israelis, helped the other bunch oust Assad so they can grab more land for the “greater Israel.” What a friggin’ mess! It’s heartbreaking to think of the children.
