NaNoWriMo: It All Started (ch. 12 - 13)

... did my thing: wrote my poems, read my books in my lap, thought my thoughts. I studied, copied the mindlessly repetitive sentences over and over. ...staying in my room, never going out, eating Cheetos and watching Woody Woodpecker and getting fat. “What do you think about going to summer camp?” my dad asked me on day. I thought about it: about other kids and outside activities and being away from ...

... table at Hogwarts. Good when he thought he and Remus were exclusive, ...that doesn't need to be thought about so early, so he stumbles...Dorcas prods for secrets like a woodpecker looking for bugs, Marlene has the...Couldn't, of course. But I thought about it." James smiles at ...." Lily laughs. "I've always thought the same, actually. But that's... anyway. Peter never would have thought he'd miss having his ...

Loud mistakes and the smallest oak leaf

... I sat in the coarse beargrass near the aqueduct and watched water trickle through the stones, and a downy woodpecker flew between birches.  On my way back, I kept trying to catch a leaf, but the eddies of ... into my hands.  It was flimsy and thin, smaller than my fingers at its narrow points.  I thought about keeping it but buried it under a shrub instead. None of this was important, really.  It ...

IPS: M/Raph, M/M-ish - Icarus Descending [PG-13]

... damn road." "I don't know why you thought it would make it up a mountain," he answers...minutes, the only sounds are her crunching and a woodpecker drilling. Marshall closes his eyes, boots propped on ... out of town to see the damage." Watching the woodpecker fly away, he feels her eyes settle on him ... to say," she finally tells him, quietly. "I thought maybe..." "Oh, Jesus, Mer. You can't sleep with...

...sparrow like than gutteral so the birds hopping about in the shrubs must have been Bewick's. (On sighting them, i thought, "Carolina Wrens! But no.") The bird song got my attention just intime for me to watch a female Nuttal's Woodpecker make her way up the trunk of the eucalyptus. This morning seems so glorious after days of morning marine layer...

A new bird

... the blue patches on the wings really give them away. I've seen them a few times since moving to the new house, but for some reason thought I was seeing the Green Woodpecker, but I got a good look at the one earlier this week and it is really a Jay : http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/...

I thought this was SUPER cute!

Woodpecker wars

... back and forth off the rain gutter.  That worked for awhile (although their were some fearless sorts that would work early in the morning on new abodes.)   We finally had to return the hawk.  I thought we might have overcome but lust broke through.  I say this because it is male woodpeckers that are drilling these nests.  No nest, no nookie.  To no one's surprise we have a new Romeo pecking away...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

... spreads by means of spores, which are produced in the hundreds of millions in each canker. A single woodpecker can transfer a billion spores on one flight between trees. At the height of the American chestnut blight,... let's stop there. I think we've both had enough science for one chapter. But hold that thought, please, and bear it in mind when I tell you that there wasn't a day in the Appalachian...

A Picture a Day -- Week 37

... managed to mow the rest of it into the ground. I thought it was kind of weird because there was still patches of .... Wednesday, September 9th : Our pine trees in back have woodpecker holes in them. This is because they're either infested with ..., the woodpeckers love them. Anyhow, forestdruid told us that he thought they were termites, but doomsey seems to think they were ...