Tree full of roosting Black Vultures.
Note how the vulture at center is doing the classic Snoopy vulture pose.
Black Vultures
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friday black vulture party
Posted by sean on October 14, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/10/14/friday-black-vulture-party/
chimney swifts entering their evening roost
[click in the lower right corner to enlarge]
Hundreds of migrant chimney swifts enter the chimney at Free State Bookbinders in Baltimore City last night for their evening roost. Recent rough estimates come in around 2000 birds roosting in this single chimney, though on peak migration nights that number can double or even triple. If you do some investigation in your area you may find there’s an annual event like this near you, too. If there is, I highly recommend checking it out–it’s quite a spectacle! More info here.
Posted by sean on September 18, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/09/18/chimney-swifts-entering-their-evening-roost/
september psithurism
psithurism n. sound of wind whispering in the trees.
And thus waking to the first instance of psithurism born of a cool breeze do we now herald the arrival of autumn, though the equinox is yet seven days hence. Get thee behind us, summer, and yield the stage to your more attractive successor. Thank you.
Posted by sean on September 15, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/09/15/september-psithurism/
good morning!
A groundhog (aka woodchuck, whistlepig, etc.) takes the early morning sun.
Posted by sean on September 6, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/09/06/good-morning/
eastern tiger swallowtail
Worn late-summer Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Note the faded and ragged wing tips, completely missing the ‘swallow tail’. They’re almost too degraded to identify the sex, but based on my other photos I think it’s a male. The light form of the female has much more blue on the hind wings. Still, it’s kind of a tough call.
Late-summer Eastern Tiger Swallowtail with bee companion.
Posted by sean on August 26, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/26/eastern-tiger-swallowtail/
keluar ‘fractures’
Dissonance streaked with melody
See also: live version (best viewed in seizure-inducing full-screen mode)
Posted by sean on August 22, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/22/keluar-fractures/
trio
inside outside hot
inside cold and outside hot
all hot but one room
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dry faded flowers
offer seed of life in death
a bird flies off full
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the walls are falling
glimpses seen through plaster cracks
yet there are no walls
Posted by sean on August 15, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/15/trio/
ghost cats of Delverne
ghost cats of Delverne
from their hilly perches stare
white sentries above
Posted by sean on August 8, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/08/ghost-cats-of-delverne/
black sun
“Black Sun”, from Splendor Solis, a German alchemical treatise, 1582
Wikipedia entry for Splendor Solis
Discussion on the significance of the Black Sun in alchemy
(found via Public Domain Review)
Posted by sean on August 4, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/04/black-sun/
A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906
A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906 (Source: Public Domain Review via Diseases of Modern Life)
Posted by sean on July 28, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/07/28/a-vision-of-isolating-technology-from-1906/
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