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#SilentSunday (even the chickadees are quiet)
Photo of a rain-soaked mountain chickadee--a tiny grey and white songbird with a black cap and thin, black masking stripe across the eye--sitting in the branches of a mahogany bush, dozens of other thick and thin wet branches criss-crossing the frame in sharp and soft focus. The sodden little bird has eir back to us, body drawn up and wings tucked back as e looks off like a night watch at attention in right-facing profile under a misty, overcast winter sky. The colors have that slightly glossed and vivid look stones take on after you submerge them in water--ruddy bark and young stems, stipples of bright green moss, and a soft backdrop of evergreen.
#silentsunday
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