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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2017-06-15 12:41 pm

Out On A Limb

You've got to admire people who go out on a limb and lead extreme lives so the rest of us don't have to.

Anita Pallenberg for instance.

Talking about going out on a limb I just watched a young sparrow fledge. When I first caught sight of it it was backed against the trunk of a holly tree in a little ball of fluff with its friends and relations coming and going around it. Then, gradually, it edged out along a branch, stopping to stretch its wings and preen, growing sleeker by the minute until, when it was three quarters of the way towards nowhere in particular it spread its wings fully- flew...
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2017-06-15 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Always a wonderful sight! :o)