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Friday, April 1, 2011 - Boulder Beach Campground, Boulder City NV

I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011

Fuffy

What's with the fuffy beards? Most of heron pictures I'm getting show these long beard feathers, often puffed out in the presence of a mate. Is this a nesting display of some sort?

Night camp

Site 94 - Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV

Our Past is Written Deep

We do not destroy this past of ours; it is indestructible. We carry it with us; its record is written deep in our lives. We only refuse to acknowledge it as our true past and try to make it an alien thing - something that did not happen to our real selves.... But this unremembered past endures.... Our buried past is mighty; the ghosts of our father and of the selves that we have been haunt our days and nights though we refuse to acknowledge their presence.

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