Uploads from Shalla Ball

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:29:09 -0700

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Brazilian Tanager / Tiê Sangue

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:25:38 -0700

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Saffron Finch - Young / Canario da terra verdadeiro

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:12:17 -0700

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Whistling Heron / Maria Faceira

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:43:35 -0800

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King Vulture / urubu rei

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:37:07 -0800

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♫ i go to this window

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:27:19 -0800

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i go to this window / e.e. cummings

just as day dissolves
when it is twilight (and
looking up in fear

i see the new moon
thinner than a hair)

making me feel
how myself has been coarse and dull
compared with you, silently who are
and cling
to my mind always

But now she sharpens and becomes crisper
until i smile with knowing
-and all about
herself

the sprouting largest final air

plunges
inward with hurled
downward thousands of enormous dreams

Tesourinha (Fork-tailed Flycatcher)

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:24:07 -0800

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South American Snipe / Narceja

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:28:40 -0800

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Hooded Siskin / Pintassilgo

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:02:07 -0800

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Sporagra magellanica

Tiriba de testa vermelha / Maroon-bellied Parakeet

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:15:37 -0800

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Pyrrhura frontalis

The light through the window

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:55:06 -0800

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Saffron Finch with horse background

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:08:45 -0800

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Gray Monjita / Primavera

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:43:26 -0800

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Xolmis cinereus

wildflower / best viewed in lightbox!

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:30:29 -0800

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A Sleepin' Bee

When a bee lies sleepin'
In the palm of your hand
You're bewitched
And deep in love's
Long looked-after land
Where you'll see a sun-up sky
With a mornin' new
And where the days go laughin' by
As love comes a-callin' on you
Sleep on bee, don't waken ...
Barbara Streisand

Paraty - Rio de Janeiro

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:50:15 -0800

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Paraty - RJ

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:21:40 -0800

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Paraty - Rio de Janeiro

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:03:51 -0800

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Rufous-collared Sparrow / Tico tico

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:47:13 -0800

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A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost

OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orcahrd white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
To which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends he will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

Fork-tailed Flycatcher / Tesourinha

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:52:58 -0800

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The Birds Companion

As love
that is
each day upon the twig
which may die
So springs your love
fresh up
lusty for the sun
the bird’s companion

By: William Carlos Williams

Carcará - Crested Caracara / Polyborus Plancus (falconidae)

nobody@flickr.com (Shalla Ball) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:57:08 -0700

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