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Marion Deeds
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Author of COMEUPPANCE SERVED COLD, reader, lover of crows.
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Your Pacific Standard Time crow.
A crow perches on the peak of a roof. Its head is turned to look right. The sky behind it is unbroken blue.
November 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A pair of cheerful images this morning.
Against a pale green blurred background, a raven perches on a brown fence post. Its body faces the camera and its head is curved to viewer's left. The ruffling of feathers on breast and head can be seen. Very glossy. A green-backed hummingbird hovers, drinking from a long, tubular purple flower, one of a cluster of them. Lavender colored flowers show lower left, in-focus leaves surround the bird and the blossom cluster.
September 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Something tranquil this morning.
At dawn, against a backdrop of dark evergreen trees, a doe stands facing the camera. The grass under her feet is pale green.
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, CA.
A small fishing boat, in the center of the frame, heads to the right. the water around it ripples, creating a blurry reflection of the highway bridge, and a crisper reflection of the boat itself. A wake fans out to the left.
August 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Beaky Raven.
A ruffled raven sits on a white fence post, a walnut fragment under one talon. The crow looks to the right. The eye can be seen and the beak is thick, long with a noticeable hook. Picnic tables in background.
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Bird images from Mendocino, CA. #MCWC2025.
A green-bodied hummingbird hovers, its beak deep in a dark purple tubular flower. Against a blurred green and orange background, a sleek raven perches on a brown wooden post. The bird looks down, left.
August 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Beaky raven.
A large raven perches on a white wooden fence, looking back over its shoulder. Its large bead ends in a noticeable hook. Blurred background includes green shrubbery and white flowers.
August 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Another Mendocino memory; the mouth of Big River.
Against a blue and white sky (thin clouds) three poles in the beach stand march away from the viewer, left to right. Beyond the farthest you can see light surf as Big River reaches the ocean, and beyond that, two tree-covered hills.
July 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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This is from January, 2025, but it felt like a "crow family" morning.
Four crows perch in a bare-branched winter tree, against a dark blue sky.
July 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This hardcover is now in my hands. In addition to donating a story I bought a copy because duh. This is an amazing outpouring of love and support by some great storytellers. Eager to dig in!
(Image: Hardcover book: Appalachian Strong in white text at the top. A rising sun casts orange rays across forested hills. At left, one valley is shrouded in fog. Lower left a bit of white-water river shows. Text at bottom: A Charity Anthology for Hurricane Relief Survivors.)
July 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Great blue heron, male, in mating plumage. Yesterday, Bodega Bay, California.
A male great blue heron perches in the canopy of a tree. The bird is in mating plumage, and a frilly white feather "beard" dangles from its throat. Who says beards aren't sexy?
July 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I took this last year at the Mendocino, CA Botanical Garden. At first I thought I was tracking a slow hummingbird! No such oxymoron; it's a sphinx moth.
A sphinx moth rests on a spike of blue lupin, its wings open. The wings have black and white bands, with red and black on the back or bottom. The body is thick and the moth is about the size of a hummingbird. Blurred in background, a solid wooden fence and green shrubbery.
June 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The installation is called Habitat, representing community as the heart of things. Solar panels collect energy to power the lights which come on after sunset. Sebastopol, CA.
An installation shaped like a human heart stands in an empty lot directly in front of a redwood tree. The body of the heart is made up of tiny houses in rusted metal, with chrome tubes representing veins and arteries. The bottom of the sculpture glows with red light from within. The same sculpture, in close up. It is lit from within by purple light. The chrome veins form a contrast. A light pole, power pole and the tree are visible to the right. It's twilight. Even closer shot; lit with yellow. Branches of the redwood are visible top right.
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Weasels.
Close up; a long-tailed north American weasel peers out of a gopher hole. The white patch between its eyes is a rough rectangle. Grass pokes up around the hole. Middle distance; against a green stretch of grass, a weasel leaps, stretched out. It's facing away from the camera.
June 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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One of my raven favorites.
A raven perches on the corner of a roof, staring left. Lots of details of the feather in shoulders, wings and tail. The eye is visible. New leaves on a tree form a bright green background.
June 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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It's a dahlia kind of a day.
Nearly full screen, a blooming dahlia faces down, right. The petals are mostly white with pink-lavender edges. Top left, a dark green leaf shows.
June 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A couple of signs from the No Kings event I participated in. 2000+ people.
Protester, a woman with curly silvery hair, black cap and black glasses, holds up a sign reading, "Only butterflies should be monarchs." The sign is studded with artificial monarch butterflies. Two protestors. (L) sign reads, "Burger Kings Only." Sign on right reads, "There's money for a parade? Then there's money for MediCaid!'
June 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Signs of Pride.
A swag of eight rainbow wheels dangle between two cement pillars in a shopping mall. A light pole and lush green trees show in the background.
June 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Best backyard crow image so far.
Medium image of a black crow facing right. Beak, eye and talon are well delineated. You can see individual feathers near the neck. Two bright green lines of wisteria snake around behind it. More wisteria, blurry, in background.
June 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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My small home town held its Pride Flag Raising yesterday.
Against a background of green shrubbery, two open rainbow umbrellas fill the lower half of the frame. No people show. Sunlight shines through them, making them glow. Five smiling children and two adults to the right cluster around a flag pole, ready to raise the Pride Flag under the American flag and the California flag.
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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From2024, Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, a moment of reflection.
A shallow pool of still water reflects a tree filled with green and gold leaves, as well as a stand of green reeds. Various blond stones break up with water. Greenery in background.
May 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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From 2024, a hummingbird takes a break.
Against a blurred background of bright green leaves, a ruby-throat hummingbird sits on a slim branch, beak pointed to the right. Bits of blue sky show through the leaves.
May 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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For no particular reason, a lounging fox.
In an unmanicured yard, mostly gray and brown, a gray fox lies down, staring straight at the camera. Its ears are up and its eyes open. The brownish gray of its back blends with the rootbase of the artemisia plant behind it.
May 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This is the most fairy-tale-like image I've gotten of the neighborhood gray fox.
A small male gray fox lifts his muzzle to smell the wind in a cluttered back yard, with wisteria and a wooden fence beyond him. His neck is reddish brown and his plumy gray tail has a wide streak of black.
May 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Two strong, loving sisters, beguiling magic and exquisite prose made this a treat--the woodcut-style illustrations were a bonus. @amalelmohtar.com @tordotordo.bsky.social
Cover of The River Has Roots by Amal El Mohtar. Against a white background and a series of S curves, three dahlias are in full bloom. The author's name is in red at the bottom.
April 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM