Journal of a Sabbatical |
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June 20, 2001 |
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Adopt these cats at Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society Today's
Bird Sightings: Today's Reading: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird, Pilgrimage for Plants by Frank Kingdon-Ward, On Agriculture by Columella Today's
Starting Pitcher: 2001
Book List Photos: Big Plastic Bull Savannah Sandy Miss Newburyport Carmine and Jemma on the Dusty Laptop Carmine on the Dusty Laptop Jemma on the Desk Rough-fruited Cinquefoil Common Milkweed Flowers More Rough-fruited Cinquefoil Flowers English Plantain (close-up) Sweet Clover |
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Emma did get to settle in and watch Roy dry the dishes, and Sandy found a comfy place to sleep in the closet. Somebody put Seamus back in his cage. Duchess took herself as far away from other cats as possible up on top of the bank of cages. Things got calmer after that.
Just about anything is a cat toy
around here. The shorts I put on this morning had a small
hole in the seam by the left pocket and a little balled up
thread hanging down. I made the mistake of sitting on top of
the credenza when one of the cats was playing with a pencil.
The pencil rolled toward my left hip. Next thing I knew the
seam of my shorts was I pulled my T-shirt down over the hole
and went for the usual veggie sub. Angelina's is like a
refrigerator compared to the cat shelter. The cat shelter
does have air-conditioning but I was sweating buckets at the
sink anyway. Whatever Angelina's has is more that air
conditioning. They could put a skating rink in there. The TV
is tuned to CNN and the news is making no sense to me. I
can't tell the difference between Alan Greenspan and
a For like half a minute I'm refreshed enough to consider getting a cup of coffee for my drive-by birding expedition. The feeling passed. I decided against coffee. The drive-by birding was weird in that
the first birds I saw were two cedar waxwings, which I
always associate with fall even though I know they're here
in the summer. Another bird for the year list, but this is
too easy - Monday a blue jay, today cedar waxwings - I get
to add something "new" to The weirdest thing by far was one of
the suicidal mourning dove pair perched on top of a tree. A
tree? Perched? Not walking recklessly in the road? OK, I
don't know for sure whether it was one of that pair but it
was in the right spot - just on the tree instead of the
road. Since Monday the fields developed huge yellow patches of what I'm guessing is rough-fruited cinquefoil. It's for sure some kind of cinquefoil. Yellow all over the place. The milkweed is in bloom too with those weird balls of tiny flowers. The flowers are minuscule but there are so many of them in each ball that it looks huge. Actually a lot more things are in bloom since last week and the rosa rugosa is busting out all over. I could have photographed a lot more
plants today except that I didn't want to get out of the
car. That would be because when I did, to photograph that
weird-looking thing I think is English plantain, bugs of
many species Biodiversity is great but does it have to happen all at once? How many species can fit in my shorts?
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Copyright © 2001, Janet I. Egan |