Captain F. D. S. Fayrer’s photographs and illustrations of birds common to the plains of India and the British Isles, from Birds of the Plains, by Douglas Dewar, first published in 1909.
The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...