IT IS DONE

Today I was up at 5AM discouraging the pigeon partners by banging on the window and air conditioner each time they started to chortle.  My timing was good--the  first fledgling had flown.

After the A/C guys got here and removed the innards, I found the very well established nest above.  I used a big paint scraper and gloves, carefully removed it all, then sprayed disinfectant like crazy.  I found tiles I had stored away, and piled enough in there to block their return.  The clean air conditioner will be back in a few days.

I will miss the daily visits, but it's for the best.

The memory lingers on:
(One Minute Home Video)

~April 2013~

http://youtu.be/lf24G4YQw4E

HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS

Singular moments seen, caught with a digital lens, and enhanced.

Quotes taken at random from the 'Sunbeams' page

in December's issue of "The Sun"

1

 Penn Station Pigeon

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Leave the fingers open and it stays.

Clutch it and it darts away.

~Dorothy Parker~

2 

 'Wessiefoo' Landscape

"I will love you forever" says the poet.

I find this easy to swear too.

"I will love you at 4:15 PM next Tuesday."

Is that still as easy?

~W. H. Auden~

3

 Child's Feet

Love and love-always read together from the same book,

but not always from the same page.

~Richard Garnet~

4

Dancing Cloud-Girl

The trouble with many married people is

that they are  trying to get more out of marriage

than there is in it.

~Elbert Hubbard~

5

 "Sassy"

He felt now that he was not simply close to her,

but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

~Leo Tolstoy~

6

 The Giving Table

Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me....

It creates pain that it is the only true cure for....

It is the only comfort for it's hardships.

Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective.

The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark.  We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.

~Wendell Berry~

7

Southbound "Vermonter" Sunset

There is no democracy in any love relation:

only mercy.

~Gillian Rose~

8

A Glance Back