Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the animals category.
Feb. 13, 2010
Meet me & a ga-zillion other folks at the Florida coast, Feb. 13, 2010 just after lunch at 12:30 p.m.
Link hands along the shore.
Let our leaders know how protective we are, of Florida’s shores.
This is organized by a Seaside Florida restaurant owner.
Visit www.handsacrossthesand.com
or the Facebook page of the same name.
If we don’t show our strength & carry the day, we’ll all be searching for appropriate gear to wear for continual beach clean up. Here’s a future newspaper I conjured up from the coast town where I spent childhood time at the beach. Tar balls, anyone?
Chickees
Inspection
The office assistant weighs in on a summer project, experimenting with different materials for miniature chickees.
Thanksgiving 2008 & American Buffalo in Florida
Native Tribal People &
their heritage
receive the short
stick from our tasty national
holiday in the U.S. , Thanksgiving.
A few days before the 2008
Thanksgiving I took a detour with my
sister & we found this roadside
surprise in Alachua County,
Florida.
It was late in the afternoon, with a cool breeze
tickling the palm fronds.
As I watched this creature clip the field
for dinner,
near U.S. Highway 27,
I thought of archival reports from
the Old West, of
the thundering herds of bison that
could stampede for days,
which sustained the First Peoples
of North America.
This ranch buffalo of 2008 represents legit Florida
heritage, although the Florida bison were scant
compared to the way their cousins once blanketed the mid-West
& The West.
(Buffalo are featured in the book
SCENIC DRIVING FLORIDA, 2nd ed.
the “Crossing Creeks and Prairie” chapter,
by my own self, Jan Godown. The chapter guides
you to the lucky chance for your own encounter to see
(c.) Jan G. Annino 2008
buffalo in a natural setting at
Paynes Prairie State Preserve)
http://www.floridastateparks.org/paynesprairie
For a fine picture book about the adoption & care of a buffalo calf by a father and son and the restoration of the Pablo-Allard herd, please see Joseph Bruchac’s BUFFALO SONG. The author consulted oral history recorded in part in the 1920s & 1930s in Montana. A 1926 Salish tribal story is woven into this lyrical book. I like the information on it at Oyate.org and at the blog by Debbie Reese American Indians in Children’s Literature
americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com
To begin to understand the interesting work of Carol and Joseph Bruhac, please see
For another picture book about the woman who helped save American Buffalo, please see the story of Mary Ann Goodnight, BUFFALO MUSIC, by
Tracey E. Fern. I like the review of it by children’s book maven Esme Raji Codell, posted at her blogspot blog, Planet Esme.
(Look for the Oct. 14.200 blog, it’s after her review of a fine picture book bio on one of my picture book heroines, Wanda Gag, who lived for some time in the region where I grew up.)
http://planetesme.blogspot.com/2008/10/wanda-gag-girl-who-lived-to-draw.html
To fully immerse in the topic, Steven Rinella’s new book, AMERICAN BUFFALO, recently reviewed on NPR (I’m pretty sure it was an interview with the very fine Terri Gross) follows the herds in history & also one particular buffalo that the author brings down on foot in Alaska, after winning a spot in a hunt lottery, butchers by himself & then packs out for eating later. Not for everyone who reads nature nonfiction, but if you fish ( I have) or hunt (haven’t, wouldn’t, unless for survival) or if you enjoy the buffalo steak in the cafeteria of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. this book may be for you.
Florida garnet and gold
Found in the neighborhood, earlier this week, some Florida garnet & gold.
Let it not be said that The Sunshine State is without an autumn.
Lichgate labyrinth
Lichgate Labyrinth
As The Wizard
didn’t give to The Tin Man
anything
“that he didn’t didn’t already have”
a labyrinth arriving at a site
such as Lichgate on High Road
becomes a natural tapestry
illuminating the precious pathways
Laura Pauline Jepsen found
when she first
climbed over the barbed wire fence
into her precious world
A Lichgate labyrinth
will beckon travelers
to discover
the peace of mind
already here
It will beckon travelers
to explore
the spirit
deep within
the one who travels
And as our area glows with
more and more labyrinths
we can become known
as a “city of turns”
much as holy cities have
long been called, for their
spiritual spiral walking paths
image for illustration idea only
source www.jhu.edu/~chaplain/labyrinth.gif
For information on labyrinths worldwide begin with
Veriditas http://veriditas.org or The Labyrinth Society http://labyrinthsociety.org
One of Charlotte’s Daughters
The well-fed spider
is a constant reader
when she’s not
browsing the Web
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Ghost thread
What is this gray fiber 
wall of hair
ribbon from the grave
thread of the ghost
who visits the yard
(c.) text, photo
Jan G. Annino
Ampersand
We readers & teachers & artists & writers & dancers & storytellers
usually have a favorite punctuation,
& mine is the ampersand.
It derives from ET or et, Latin for “and.”
It is a logogram & the name is said to derive from
“and per se and the character & by itself is the word and”
See a variety of &&&&&& @
the Wiki entry
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
HAPPY PUNCTUATION DAY!
About Birds
Migratory Bird Day
In celebration of both Mother’s Day & Migratory Bird Day, which occur on the same weekend in May:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/ornithology/sounds.htm
take Mom out for a walk to hear birdsong morning, noon or nite
