Bonnie, Great quote ! Good Birding, Darius Ecker (dariuse@abs.net) Columbia, Maryland USA "You almost never find what you set out to see, but you can always find something amazing." -----Original Message----- From: Bonnie Ott <bott@erols.com> To: Bob Solem <Odenata@msn.com>; darius ecker <dariuse@abs.net>; hank <hanks@clark.net>; Harvey, David A. <HarveDA1@APLMSG.JHUAPL.EDU>; Jane Coskren <coskren@erols.com>; Magnusson, Nancy C. <MagnuNC1@central.SSD.JHUAPL.edu>; maud <onthebanks@aol.com>; MBetts1030@aol.com <MBetts1030@aol.com>; McClure, Grazina <grazina.mcclure@erols.com>; McClure, Michael D. <McCluMD1@central.SSD.JHUAPL.edu>; mjker@erols.com <mjker@erols.com>; Natalie gilbert <Nagilbe@smtp2.erols.com>; Paulae2156 <Paulae2156@aol.com>; Peter Osenton <Peter_Osenton@usgs.gov>; Phil Davis <pdavis@ix.netcom.com>; ralph <OldHawk@aol.com>; Stirrat, Charles R. <StirrCR1@central.SSD.JHUAPL.edu>; Wildunltd@aol.com <Wildunltd@aol.com>; osprey <MDOsprey@ARI.Net> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:01 PM Subject: SPRING!(can't wait!) >"Imagine yourself in a green dell, where the meadows meet the wood, a >soft warm wind gently blowing, and the big white clouds above sailing >under a dome of blue. > All around you, in the bushes, in the trees, and up in the sky, there >is music: Thrushes and blackbirds whistling their pure notes from the >bushes; Linnets flitting on the yellow gorse, singing their softer >liquid songs; Cuckoos calling in the fields; Warblers singing in the >wood, and Larks soaring over all. Flowers everywhere, butterflies >dancing over them, and the air itself filled with the more faint music >of insect's wings. Wherever you look there is happiness, for the whole >world is awake and mad with a great joy." > > Oliver G. Pike, from "Birdland" >