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I love Spotted Towhees! And I feel the same way about my porch. Watching birds is so freeing and I would say joyful. Appreciate you sharing and have a happy new year!

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Thanks Hillarie! Porches are awesome! Happy New Year to you too!

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Happy New Year, indeed!

I love your writing style.

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Thanks so much Jeanne! My mentor, for more than 30 years now, is the poet Richard Shelton. We've become fast friends...

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You're welcome. His influence shows. You find a way to say something with a tweak of a little somethin'-somethin' more interesting than the normal fare.

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Thank you--you are so kind. I'll pass this along to him...

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Happy New Year!

No blanket required here at the moment, unseasonably warm but with that comes rain too, supposed to get colder soon though. A new year means a new garden list, the first birds are all regulars and here every year that I’ve been keeping that list.

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We warmed up to 28 degrees this morning! Mostly regulars here too--31 species so far--but a nice "rarity" for this time of year has been visiting the elderberry tree...Hepatic Tanager!

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