Celebrating Women's History Month in the USA and International Women's Day, coming up on Friday, March 8, with this
Women in History poetry feature over at
Escape Into Life. It's got poems by an international crew of women: Nicolette Wong writing about Chinese fiction writer Eileen Chang, Michaela A. Gabriel of Austria, writing about Austrian physicist Lise Meitner (later a Swedish citizen), Jeannine Hall Gailey writing about Austrian-American movie star and
mathematician Hedy Lamarr, and Ren Powell, currently of Norway, writing about Cuban revolutionary Haydee Santamaria. With photos of sculpture by
Petah Coyne.
The various photos of interesting peafowl here, um, all male, since they are the fancy ones, are thanks to posters sharing images at Wikipedia. The amazing white peacock is from the uploader
Abdominator. This peacock feather, which reminds me of decorative feathers in my childhood home, is thanks to
Schnobby. (Here's looking at you, bird.)
Here's another wonderful peacock on display, thanks to
Jebulon. These birds are so amazing, but also so annoying, I hear--from Flannery O'Connor and Joan Didion, to mention a couple women writers! Didion's husband threw things at the screaming birds, I just read in
The Year of Magical Thinking.
Ah, yes, it's a Random Coinciday in the blog, a Poetry Someday, and the Hump of the Week. And now, like a green peafowl, aka
Siamese Dragon, thanks to Frankyboy5, I shall walk daintily, majestically away...
Man, that white peacock is incredible. Although of course regular peacocks are incredible too, and it makes me realize how strange it is that we can get blasé about even extraordinary things.
ReplyDeleteThere was a peacock farm across the way from a house I lived in in Colorado. At that range they were just cool, not annoying at all. We'd hear them at sunset if I remember right. It has been a long, long time.
Peacocks can only say "Yelp!" They do it very loud and often early in the morning. The ones that used to roam the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha would sometimes get out and go yelping around the residential neighborhood driving people crazy. At least peafowl do not tp houses...
ReplyDeleteThanks, you two, for your comments on the beauty and yelping of peacocks!!
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