Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Dawn, biscuits and dust bath.

1. I wake so early (corvid calling insistently) but when I go to close the window I see that the new building catches the pink dawn light.

2. There are a few hazelnut wafer biscuits in the tin.

3. Peering through a garden fence to watch a sparrow bathing in dust.
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