Foxglove thanks you!
Posted on 12/22/2013 12:10:02 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
On the way back from the store this morning, I saw a fully grown, wild bald eagle sitting in the middle of a field near where I used to live. This is absolutely the very first wild bald eagle I have ever seen in my life (I saw a captive one at school once). Unfortunately I didn't have a camera, but . . . wow!
You know, sometimes when everything is going to pot and I'm tempted to just give up, something like this happens. It's a reminder that however totalitarian the left becomes, they can't control or social-engineer nature. Nature just goes on and on, absolutely unchanging and beyond the schemes of any human beings.
I suppose their powerlessness over nature is one reason the libs beat their chests so loudly and claim to be "lovers of nature." They might as well, since they can't do anything about it. So they just tell themselves they don't want to socially engineer the natural world as they double down on forcing us to live in a sewer. I mean, really . . . they couldn't change nature if they wanted to.
To that eagle--to all G-d's creatures--the world is going along as it always has since the Creation. The schemes of evil men have no power over them. For all the loud "nature loving" the left does, I think it is we who need this lesson the most. Nothing has really changed. All the totalitarian measures in the world cannot change the way things are, or alter the laws of G-d.
Good to remember sometimes.
I live about 15 miles, as the eagle flies, from the Missouri River. We see a lot of them when we’re out there on the boat, and when the river gets locked up with ice in the winter they venture out this way to hunt the little furry woodland critters. Magnificent animals they are.
In this day and age, everything is on tape, even Paul Walker’s wreck, all these knock-out events..... you see a bald eagle and ya ain’t got a camera?
WOW!
Up here in God’s Country the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, i will watch them soar overhead. On Thursday driving back from Iron Mountain, observed a bald Eagle feasting on a dead deer by the side of the Road. The bird never even moved from pecking away at the dead deer carcass. Beautiful bird to watch. Most people do not know that the Bald eagle will have one mate for life.
WOW!
Actually, I don't even own a camera and haven't for years (my last one was one of the old disk cameras). And I've never owned a digital camera at all (don't know nothin' 'bout them there digital camries).
The few photographs I've had taken in recent years were by my sister, who knows what she's doing and is a mistress of the digital camera.
I was just razzing you. I don’t carry one, but my smartphone has one.
Foxglove thanks you!
Lucky you-—I’m jealous.
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I almost hit one last spring going down the hill into Sumner.
Dumas bird was sittin in the road scavenging a dead possum or some such.
Problem is, they’re so big, it takes them some time to get enough ground speed to get airborne, so I had to swerve.
I don't have a "smartphone" either. It's a matter of principle with me that no simple communication device should know more than I do.
Well said. Thanks.
BTW, I have the privilege of observing a mating pair of bald eagles every year. They use a tree on the property of one of my neighbors.
We have them down here in Jackson county now.
And so does Fluttershy!
I have seen bald eagles in the wild before, been a while though. Nature does have a way of bringing you up.
There used to be a colony up at Lake Buchanan (near Marble Falls, Tx) that over-wintered there. I got to see some of them in the mid 80s. It looks (from google) that they may still be doing that.
Yes, you take a boat to their roosting grounds. It’s about 30 miles from me. Never actually gone, need to.
Back in the 60’s my girlfriend and I were driving around in the South Carolina countryside on a nice spring afternoon.
We pulled off in a secluded, wooded area, windows down, and started to canoodle a little bit.
A few seconds into that, I glanced out her window, and, ten feet away, sitting on a branch, watching us, was the biggest freaking owl I have ever seen in my life!
I swear that owl had a wing span over 4 feet when it flew off.
Story #2......
In the 90’s, I ran every morning on Sentinel Hill in Portland, OR.
On a crisp fall day, just before sunrise, I came around a bend on the path and saw a young woman and her dog completely frozen in place maybe 30 feet in front of me, staring into the woods.
I'm thinking, “What the heck is happening here,” when an elk, the size of a large horse, with a huge rack of antlers, walks right out, stops on the path, stares at us for like 5 seconds, then saunters into the trees on the other side.
The young woman had a big dog, I forget what kind, and the whole time it was crouched almost flat on the path, completely motionless and completely silent, in fear, not in stalking behavior.
Then, the funniest part, the girl and I, both in complete shock, looked at each other, and speaking at exactly the same time said, “Did you see that!”
I second that Amen....God’s wonderful creatures always bring me up.
Maybe Melissa Bachman would be interested in blowing the bird to pieces with a shotgun blast or something.
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