Angry Bird - Mockingbird

 This mockingbird had quite the "angry bird" look going on.

Your Hand Is An Extension of Your Heart

 "Your hand is an extension of your heart. 

Give it freely." 

- Unknown

Bird Expressions - Mockingbird with Attitude

Of all the things you wear, 

your expression is the most important.

~ Janet Lane

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Mockingbird in Autumn

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

~ Rumi

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Mockingbird in the Quince

"Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make." 

~ Lisa Wingate

Berry Merry Mockingbird

 “If you have good thoughts, 

they will shine out of your face like sunbeams 

and you will always look lovely.” 

- Roald Dahl

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Singing For His Supper - Mockingbird in the Berries

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. 

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wild Birds - Northern Mockingbird

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” 

 ― Mary Oliver

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To Chill A Mockingbird

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. 

 ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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A Young Mockingbird

“may my heart always be open to little

birds who are the secrets of living

whatever they sing is better than to know

and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry

and fearless and thirsty and supple

and even if it's sunday may i be wrong

for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully

and love yourself so more than truly

there's never been quite such a fool who could fail

pulling all the sky over him with one smile” 

- E.E. Cummings


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Spring Mockingbird Art

 

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them. . . . It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. 

 - John Burroughs

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Birds In the Rain

Tufted Titmouse 

  The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mourning Dove

The sound of the rain needs no translation. 

~ Alan Watts

Mockingbird - 

who doesn't look to happy about the rain! 

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. 

~ Rachel Carson

Mockingbird Youngster

 In the woods, is perpetual youth. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

But youth smiles without any reason. 

It is one of its chiefest charms.

 - Oscar Wilde

Eye to Eye with a Mockingbird

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 

 ~ Albert Einstein

Singing for Spring!

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind. 

- Carly Simon 

Mockingbird singing for Spring.

Mockingbird Pair

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

 ― Richelle E. Goodrich

An Angry Bird

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course this Mockingbird wasn't really angry - but he looked like it - and the "foot stomp" added to the look.

Wings in the Rain

Mockingbird in the rain 

Tell me how many beads there are 

In a silver chain 

Of evening rain, 

Unravelled from the tumbling main... 

~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Mockingbird Gets In On the Berry Action

He that would have the fruit 
must climb the tree.

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller

The Mockingbird getting in on the berry action in my back yard.

I Am Never Done With Looking

There are things you can’t reach. But 

You can reach out to them, and all day long. 

 The wind, the bird flying away. 
The idea of God. 

 And it can keep you busy as anything else, 
and happier.

 I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. 

 Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around 

As though with your arms open.

~ Mary Oliver