Hello, Monday!
© Tracy Abell 2011
This Sharp-shinned Hawk stopped by yesterday,
and watched as I photographed it from my deck.
“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer.
A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay,
but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
Apologies to Barb ( ), but I’ll strive for hawk-writer this week.
Tracy Abell 
Great picture and wonderful quotation — hope it’s a hawk writer day for you 🙂
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Thank you, Robin. And now I realize your wording makes more sense (hawk-writer rather than writer-hawk).
Wishing you hawk-writing, too!
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Beautiful picture again , you’re great with photos!
Have a wonderful hawk writer day!
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I’m so glad you enjoy my photos, Anabel! I did have a wonderful hawk-writer day, and hope to have another today.
Still sending you good thoughts as you regain your balance and feel better…
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thank you!!
I also hope you have antoher hawk-writer day!
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Hugs!
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Whoo you calling “bloody,” Hem?
That’s cool. Hawks take the day shift; most owls are nocturnal. I can’t write anything creative in the morning anyway. Shhh; don’t tell my former bosses.
(I think I feel a blog post coming on…)
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Re: Whoo you calling “bloody,” Hem?
Then this little arrangements works out perfectly, huh? I’lve got the day shift and you’re covering the night.
(I’m not a huge Hemingway fan but the quote felt apt).
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I just love your pictures.
Just think one word at a time…before you know it, you’ll have a page (or two).
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I’m glad you like my pictures because I really love sharing them.
I’m doing 500 words per day, and it’s going really well. I can stay on the beam that way and not go off on tangents that get me all mixed up. Hope you’re finding your way back to that one word at a time, too.
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Heavens, but he has presence. Here’s betting your manuscript does, too!
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Quite the haughty posture, isn’t it? Thanks for having faith in my ms, too, Amy. I’m having fun so far.
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That bird is really staring at you. Did it make you a bit nervous? It’s a great picture.
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The hawk didn’t make me nervous but I was concerned I’d scare it away. I usually shoot from inside the house but the branches blocked my shot so I went outside.
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Very cool. I’m a big sucker for big birds in the wild.
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I love big birds, too. I love my finches and other little birds, but the birds of prey are so amazingly powerful.
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