more and more herons- otis perkins

i couldn't stop photographing them...

mo eagle mo eagle mo eagle

Herons, seagulls and eagles oh my! Otis Perkins Day Park, lopez island

beaches, beaches, beaches....
and  birds and rocks and seaweed and bull kelp and the list goes on...
crab shells...
otis perkins day park was not so much as fun to rock collect and a little smelly but perhaps that is why the birds were out en mass.

Three bald eagles swooped and dived to avoid harassing gulls of varying sorts. four herons avoiding being photographed too closely. seagulls darkened waters below with shadows of nondescript shape. and it was beautiful, more so then anything one could ever imagine coming from beaches on Lake Erie , i didn't grow up with such beaches...mist entered in while we were there watching distant islands slowly become hazier and hazier, softening the already soft water world of the san juans, cushioned on all sides- less a separation from us and it - surrounding all consuming interconnected ness merging subconscious with conscious not that it matters.

House Speaker John Boehner's phone number! CALL HIM.

For anyone who would like to represent themselves to the supposid representive of who?
oh us?
yes this guy represents you get him to do it!
House Speaker John Boehner, You can call his office at (202) 225-0600.
message box is full but there is still monday....

some things of concern in washington state

so we have been thinking if we were to want to farm more seriously and have land to have bees and such perhaps chickens well where would that be...
Bellingham was a place in my mind until today when I found out there was more mercury there then most anywhere else in america..
sad, so close to Mt Baker and such rich natural beauty. the water glistens blue out in the bay yet it's filled with a toxic element that can not be broken down..
Bellingham herald
NPR KUOW broadcast
now that's just the half of it I maybe have listened to too much NPR in the past week- but there is also the threat of an oil spill in this area due to the increased traffic of oil tankers from canada to the usa.
then there's hanford...
More Hanford Workers Raise Safety Concerns
what has been done?

smaller aspects of our vacation house on lopez island

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