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Buddha at Crown Beach

May 8, 2009 East Bay

The Awakened One, catching the last rays of light at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda. (See this short piece for symbolic insight: Buddha Statues Have Meaning Head to Toe). ©ingrid Taped to the statue: Today is absolutely today Today is not yesterday Today is not tomorrow ~ Ogui ©ingrid

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More Alameda Terns: Caspian, Forster’s, Least Terns

May 5, 2009 East Bay

Take a look at this image of terns — not because it’s anything spectacular. In fact, those terns were but specks on my visual horizon, so this is a dramatic crop to show just one thing: the size differential between the Caspian Terns and the Forster’s Terns I wrote about in a previous post. The [...]

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There is a Season … Terns (Alameda Terns)

April 18, 2009 Birds

Lame Byrds pun aside . . . Forster’s Tern Nation in Alameda – Sterna forsteri ** Photo usage and restrictions Their gravelly call precedes them, these Forster’s Terns (Sterna forsteri) with their fuzzy black berets and orange feet. They sound like aerial barflys with too much whiskey and smoke on the voice box. When it’s [...]

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