Staring at the mountains from afar, distant reflections.
Barred Owl spotting in the Whitaker!
Okay so it wasn't this very one pictured. This, in fact, is a Barred Owl we caught when I got to go along with a Spotted Owl team in their search for possible nearby Spotty nests. The two owls appear fairly similar but the barred (bearing a barred instead of spotted chest) has a detrimental impact on the threatened Spotted Owl. By being somewhat of a bully Barreds push Spotteds out of prime nesting territory. Spotteds aren't confrontational and so have to try to find nesting elsewhere. Nonetheless, I am an owl lover and seeing any owl in town, especially one not far from my house, like a couple days ago in the middle of Eugene's Whitaker, I was thrilled! It too was a Barred Owl although one that I only saw in flight right past Scobert Park, I hooted at it a bit and then saw it fly across the center of the Whit toward my apartment complex. Maybe a sign of some sort?
Cheeky Crows.
This is the beginning of my cheeky crow series that I've continued onto my blog. This was taken at the North Jetty where I learned some of how beautiful the Oregon Coast is. You can tell this was taken during a warmer time of season, I think I took this series not last summer but the summer of 2012.
I saw this crow landed in the bed of the truck and I wasn't quite sure why he was there until he dipped down and came up with some kind of tasty morsel. Why ignore a crow when he or she seems to be up to something cheeky? They almost always are! Check to find out here!
I saw this crow landed in the bed of the truck and I wasn't quite sure why he was there until he dipped down and came up with some kind of tasty morsel. Why ignore a crow when he or she seems to be up to something cheeky? They almost always are! Check to find out here!
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Memories of living and working out on Project Puffin islands off the coast of Maine
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Plucky Girl realizing she's a Plucky Girl
Dear, precious Humans:
Thannks, first of all. To all the opportunities that this plucky (i.e. LUCKY, and realizing it, and therefore
NOT TAKING IT FOR GRANTED.) girl has been afforded over the course of her 29 years on Earth.
Thanks to the generations before her that bowed down when they realized their time had past (they're the dead ones, guys (all ya'll: m/f), not you!).
Let me introduce myself: I am a generation that happens to exist on earth (yay humans for making it to where we've gotten to — from the tiny crawly mammal-things that hibernate underground that WE ONCE WERE seem to be smarter than this generation and a lot of the others scattered before mine. (I am a part of GenY, Generation WHY?, & — if you really want to get specific — #GenWhyTF?).
And we are just starting to learn that it's our turn to start the bow (scary).
But where WE start it, is of our own volition.
Because we have been afforded that volition, who knows why (seriously, who knows? I'm asking. Remember? I'm GenWHY..?) and by "who?", I mean, who?, what?, where?, when? or why?
WHY?
But WE are Effing Lucky To Have It.
Please believe in us so we can believe in ourselves.
Written by Stacey M. Hollis on 9/8/2013
Addendum (a minute later or so; 4:20pm on Sunday the Eighth Day of September in the Year Twenty-thousand Thirteen.)...
Thanks to all who have helped me to get to where I am now, no matter how you helped me. If you know me, you've helped me. Thanks.
And Now, I'm going to start passing that on to the next generation that has yet to know the cost of living. It's painful, there's more suffering (that every single last one of us endure, even the skinny DC blondes with boobs and an iphone, crap that's..me. But at least I have a job I start soon and that will last the WHOLE school year! That's from a girl who has worked 5+ years as a "contractor" a.k.a. intern a.k.a. your bitch — if that makes sense?)..wait, where was I? OH YEAH. There's more suffering that each and every one of us endure than any of us would bow to each other and admit (don't worry, I got a good story on that one coming soon, just you wait LAX!).
That's what I find sad about our species (speaking of LAX, oh, wait, no I meant suffering is what I find sad about our species! Keep up!). We're way too proud and it's killing off the sensitive artistic types (they're not all gay, they're not all bull-IED, they're NOT cowards (that includes you). So where are we now? We hide together in beautiful eclectic pockets now, just simply trying to survive and crawl out from under the MAN/BRAND (Man is a bad word, but WoMan isn't, because it's got Man in it...I love you both I swear!).
So, in conclusion (this is my science paper of the day from my studies out in "the field" which at the moment for me is a BRAND NEW PLACE (that I've been to millions of times and you have too if you know what I'm talking about!) Just like every other living thing (bird, human, ape, monkey, macaw, parrotlet...even the extinct ones know! WE ARE ALL JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE) They learned it! They (the monkeys, apes, macaws parrotlets might have had to or might have to learn that their species wasn't strong enough to survive, especially now that we're here.
So, Is OURS strong enough?
I know we can do it. <3@stacebird
Dear, precious Humans:
Thannks, first of all. To all the opportunities that this plucky (i.e. LUCKY, and realizing it, and therefore
NOT TAKING IT FOR GRANTED.) girl has been afforded over the course of her 29 years on Earth.
Thanks to the generations before her that bowed down when they realized their time had past (they're the dead ones, guys (all ya'll: m/f), not you!).
Let me introduce myself: I am a generation that happens to exist on earth (yay humans for making it to where we've gotten to — from the tiny crawly mammal-things that hibernate underground that WE ONCE WERE seem to be smarter than this generation and a lot of the others scattered before mine. (I am a part of GenY, Generation WHY?, & — if you really want to get specific — #GenWhyTF?).
And we are just starting to learn that it's our turn to start the bow (scary).
But where WE start it, is of our own volition.
Because we have been afforded that volition, who knows why (seriously, who knows? I'm asking. Remember? I'm GenWHY..?) and by "who?", I mean, who?, what?, where?, when? or why?
WHY?
But WE are Effing Lucky To Have It.
Please believe in us so we can believe in ourselves.
Written by Stacey M. Hollis on 9/8/2013
Addendum (a minute later or so; 4:20pm on Sunday the Eighth Day of September in the Year Twenty-thousand Thirteen.)...
Thanks to all who have helped me to get to where I am now, no matter how you helped me. If you know me, you've helped me. Thanks.
And Now, I'm going to start passing that on to the next generation that has yet to know the cost of living. It's painful, there's more suffering (that every single last one of us endure, even the skinny DC blondes with boobs and an iphone, crap that's..me. But at least I have a job I start soon and that will last the WHOLE school year! That's from a girl who has worked 5+ years as a "contractor" a.k.a. intern a.k.a. your bitch — if that makes sense?)..wait, where was I? OH YEAH. There's more suffering that each and every one of us endure than any of us would bow to each other and admit (don't worry, I got a good story on that one coming soon, just you wait LAX!).
That's what I find sad about our species (speaking of LAX, oh, wait, no I meant suffering is what I find sad about our species! Keep up!). We're way too proud and it's killing off the sensitive artistic types (they're not all gay, they're not all bull-IED, they're NOT cowards (that includes you). So where are we now? We hide together in beautiful eclectic pockets now, just simply trying to survive and crawl out from under the MAN/BRAND (Man is a bad word, but WoMan isn't, because it's got Man in it...I love you both I swear!).
So, in conclusion (this is my science paper of the day from my studies out in "the field" which at the moment for me is a BRAND NEW PLACE (that I've been to millions of times and you have too if you know what I'm talking about!) Just like every other living thing (bird, human, ape, monkey, macaw, parrotlet...even the extinct ones know! WE ARE ALL JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE) They learned it! They (the monkeys, apes, macaws parrotlets might have had to or might have to learn that their species wasn't strong enough to survive, especially now that we're here.
So, Is OURS strong enough?
I know we can do it. <3@stacebird