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· Maine Event

It was cloudy and gray today. Only moments of sun and blue sky in the middle of the day. Work is busy and the summer quiet time when there are fewer staff around is starting.

I was reading this history of San Francisco and when Mr. Leese wanted to start a mercantile business his partners in Monterey asked the government to give him land in San Francisco and they did! A couple years ago I worked with a Jesuit Priest from Zimbabwe and we were sketching out a program for a borehole well and community garden for water and food security in rural lands. I was concerned about how he would get the land to do all this. He smiled and said well we will ask the local leaders and they will see the value and of course they will give us the land. It seems similar but somehow I cannot imagine that happening here. It is just outside of what I can imagine.

Peaks!
Sunset looking at House Island
Long Island in Casco Bay
Red-masked Parakeets! (what a ruckus bunch)
To think a small version of this tree (Norfolk Island Pine) was in the living room all bent over when I moved in with Matthew
Love flowering ginger
Sutro and the PINK triangle

5:47 am – 8:33 pm, which is 14 hours and 46 minutes of daylight (it's growing much much slower)

The bird of the day is the Solitary Sandpiper

Here is a poem for you.

Sending oodles of love,

Tawnia

Bird List - 14 species today

Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Western Gull
Red-masked Parakeet
American Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco