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).

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Taped to the statue:
Today is absolutely today
Today is not yesterday
Today is not tomorrow
~ Ogui

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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 large
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Lame Byrds pun aside . . .
Forster’s Tern Nation in Alameda – Sterna forsteri
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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 a row
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