That time of year:
All fluffed up,
showing off one's stylish winter coat,
looking around to see who notices,
checking out the competition.
[First posted: November 24, 2014]
Foxglove Moments
Alan's haunting novel of the AIDS epidemic, As If Death Summoned, was released on December 1, 2020, World AIDS Day, and can be ordered at your favorite bookstore or from any online bookseller (418 pp) Paperback, $18.95, e-Book, $9.99. Read the reviews here.
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- A bunch of pretty blossoms
- A Certain Slant of Light
- A Little Burst of Color, with Feathers
- A Morning Visitation
- A Multi-layered World
- A Season of Anticipation (There are four of them)
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- All the thyme in the world
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- Amid winter's monochrome
- Amidst the prosaic
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- Autumn crinkling at my feet
- Autumn Framed
- Autumn Inspiration
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- Autumn Perfect
- Autumn's Passage
- Back by Popular Demand--Summer!
- Beauty in Transit
- Better Than a Gravestone
- Blossom Antidotes to the World
- Buddha Frog
- Bug from Outer Space
- Catching the Morning Sun in Winter
- Caught in Cobwebs
- Coming into Spider Season
- Coming into the Heartland
- Cosmic Water Lily
- Daily Practice
- Deer and Squirrel Stand Off
- Definitely Autumn
- Different Eyes
- Digitalis
- Distinguished Visitor
- Doomsday Update
- Evanescence
- Even Squirrels Have Less Than Graceful Moments
- Feeling the Year Turning Over...
- Finding the Sun
- First Taste of Autumn
- Fluffed Up Flicker
- Foxglove Glow
- Grace Note
- Grand Opening
- Great Buddha of the Blossoms
- Happily (now) watching the leaves happily fall where they may
- Hillside at First Light
- Hovercraft
- How hot?
- How to tell which plants are safe from deer
- Hummingbird gripes overheard at the window
- Hummingbird Wars-2013
- Hummingbird Wars-2014
- I get to come home to this
- In the Twilight Zone between Seasons
- It's beginning...
- Just Stopping By To Wash Up
- Last Light of the Year
- Lesson from the Leaves
- Lots of Suggestive Tail Wagging Going On
- Monarch
- My Bird / Squirrel / Raccoon Feeder
- Mystery of the Disappearing Suet Cakes Solved!
- Nature's Valentine
- New Neighbors
- No one at home
- Noted in Passing
- Nothing can stay
- Now that's a first
- On the clear crisp cusp of Autumn
- One very steep road
- Peanuts and poetry
- Pests
- Poe's Hummingbird
- Poets Make Good Walking Companions
- Pond People
- Pond Sitting
- Re-frame Problems And There May Be No Need to Solve Them
- Reading tracks in snowtime
- Relationships take time...and sometimes peanuts
- Requiem for a Rhododendron
- Rhododendron Road
- Roof Top Perspectives
- Season of Bursting Blossoms
- Shared Communion
- Six Reasons I Don't Keep Fish in My Pond
- Snowbound
- Sometimes it's a stretch
- Squirrel Problem Solved
- Squirrel Shaming
- Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder For Sale
- Squirrel-Proof, He Said
- Squirrels on Ice
- Still Capable of Being Taken by Surprise
- Still Snowbound, Not Complaining
- Still Waters
- Stone in a Stump
- Storm at sunset
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- Switching on the Hillside
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- The Further Adventures of Chip and Jay
- The Melt is On!
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- The Season of Full Cheeks
- The World at Last Light
- The Year at Dusk
- This Day Signing Off
- This Photo Was A Mistake
- This, too...
- Time Flutters On
- Trade Offs
- True Royalty
- Up Close & Personal
- Up Close & Personal II
- Watching the Rain Roll Up the Valley
- Welcome back, Rufus
- What a difference a day makes!
- What is a home anyway?
- When Hummingbirds Become Snowbirds
- When the word "green" seems inadequate
- Where is everyone tonight?
- Who Could Have Ever Thought of This?
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- Winter Hummingbird
- Woodland Encounter
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