Rest In Patience …
My friend the magpie. He sits and poops just outside my door, waiting for a crumb of my breakfast. He’s welcome …
On a rainy day he is undeterred. Where there’s a will … there’s going to be baby magpies soon.
He’s been chasing off last years youngsters, won’t have them around. Gotta make way for the new.
Lazy day at the jetty … Pelican sleeping.
The butcher-bird comes a calling. And a beautiful song he has too.
Or she, who knows … And they still feed their young from last year. And chase off intruders without mercy.
Closer still, one in particular is unafraid of people. A simple pleasure to engage.
Caught out in the same rain as maggie above. Looking forlorn, but nothing that can’t be shrugged off as need allows.
Ibis, not a pretty bird. Known locally as Bin Chicken, for it’s capacity to eat anything and everything.
Rest, who knows rest, really? Beyond a little here and there. Welcome respite from the incessant activity of the world, of mind.
And patience … I have been told by people looking at my photos “you must have great patience”. But no, I have some capacity for giving up impatience. Patience is a life’s work, unless you are lucky.
So I practice, rest in patience. To keep the light on … full time. And it might stay on full time, we’ll see.
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Winter just suddenly gave way to summer here, no springtime for all the plants and creatures to adjust their clocks.
A sign of our times, no time left. If there’s anything needs doing now is the time. The birds know it, taking cue from nature, their own nature.
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I’ve just started doing other markets than Manly, and in one day sold as many pix as for the previous 10 weeks. The selling season has begun.
I’ve been busy prepping for sales, getting some new stuff printed and ready for framing. The framing already on the way.
It’s warming up … in every way. And cooling down, may be.
© Mark Berkery … Click on those pictures for a closer look …
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Nature's Place 
Love this.
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Very nice series of candid portraits.
Thanks David.
Fantastic photos Mark – your usual standard! And your thoughts are always good to read. Yes, it’s a scarily early summer with all its implications.
Thanks A … A story unfolding, is our nature.