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The Difference is in The Details

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 Male Bluebird Have you been to one of those memory classes where they ask, “How many dresser drawers do you have?” and did you know? Or care?   It seems that details, seeing them, creating them and remembering them opens the worlds around us.   Details are the difference between the mundane and the wondrous.   They are the difference between ordinary and extraordinary, between good and excellent.   Details amaze me or maybe it’s my ability or inability to observe and remember details. About 6 years ago I started birding.   I met a man, my Peter, who was an avid birder and, of course, I became one also.   I thought it would be a breeze.   I was used to looking at and creating details in my interior design work.   Booted Racket-tailed Hummingbird I saw him in Ecuador and look at his details! I started out knowing there were big birds and little birds, colorful birds and plain birds, birds that flew and birds that stayed on the ground and I knew I liked to watch birds. I lo

Jambo! Welcome to Serengeti

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Welcome to the Serengeti, an area that covers 14,763 square kilometers of Tanzania . Grasslands, rivers, rocky outcrops Birds, animals, reptiles The daily struggle of life and death. People, looking for adventure and a sense of place use land rovers, vans, small aircraft and walking to build their country's infrastucture. Looking out onto the vast expanse of the land with its flat topped acacia forests, comes a feeling of solitude.   Dirt roads wind and cross each other and I know there are others driving in the area but I see no one.   It is quiet and still.  (An excerpt from my handmade book.) The Serengeti was my favorite area in Tanzania.   T he landscape was grassland and dry acacia forest (much like Arizona) with rivers supporting a variety of  wildlife. The birds were breathtaking. (Being a birder I got over 300 new species of birds.)   The exotic animals chose when to let us see them or were in herds.  The people were friendly and colorful and the lodging was delightfu