Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - Harrah's Convenience Store, Laughlin NV
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Catching Some Rays, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
The five Great Blue Heron pairs nesting on this cliff spend their day leisurely tending the nest and each other. What a privilege it was to be able to watch them for a day.
Night camp
Site 17 - Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Harrah's Laughlin Convenience Store on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood