I'm patching database servers whilst observing the bird circus at the
feeders. Not easy. It's fortunate I don't have a National G within reach and
there are no owls in sight or a disaster would be highly probable.

fdp

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Patricia Valdata
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:57 AM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] "Snow Clouds"
>
>
> While you're waiting, you can read about great gray owls in the
> latest National Geographic.
>
> At 09:30 AM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
> >"About seven this morning, I awoke to a still, closed-in day.
> Lead-colored
> >clouds hung low and the mercury stood at 29 degrees F. The smell
> of snow was
> >in the air when I walked for the morning papers. The sky seemed weighted
> >down, pressed low, with a myriad unborn flakes. A few fell
> slowly, turning
> >and drifting down in the hushed, unmoving air." - January 22
> (1952?) entry
> >in
> >Edwin Way Teale's "Circle of the Seasons"
> >
> >I'm tempted to turn the page to see how it will look tomorrow, but I'll
> >wait.
> >
> >fdp
>
> --Pat
>
> Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
> "The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
> and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the
> race of gods.
> More than any other thing that pertains to the body
> it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato
>