Thursday 3 September 2009

Goodbye Summer


The swallows are making ready to fly,
Wheeling out on a windy sky;
Goodbye Summer, Goodbye, Goodbye


Two swallows perched on the edge of the gutter, mother bird chirping, twittering, chiding; fledgling shuffling precariously. Fledgling hurls itself into nothingness; a flurry of wings, they're gone.

15 comments:

  1. Goodbye summer for you and goodbye holidays for me. The mood dipping and soaring, or soaring and dipping. I am back in Madrid in a house that has been closed for 2 months, so you can imagine all the housecleaning and organizing that await me. And then back to work, which I am looking forward to.
    That is a beautiful photo of the swallows. Coming back through the Alentejo we found all the stork nests empty, they are already gone to North Africa.

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  2. Hi Friko, The swallows have left our neighbourhood too
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    Autumn is clearly here with colder winds and rainy and cloudy.

    Have a good evening and Friday.

    Love,
    Herrad

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  3. Hi Friko, It is raining like mad here and looks to be an all day affair. Autumn is definatly in the air.

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  4. Swallows and summer - to return again next year - ever and always.

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  5. Hey, don't tell me summer's over! I was just ironing my bikini.

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  6. Our swallows are still here but I can tell by the way they are gathering that they are ready to be gone - could be tomorrow.

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  7. Hello Friko. I enjoyed your poetic thoughts on summer's last days.

    Here, in Bermuda, there is no real autumn. September is one of the hottest months. Then it is spring like till January.

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  8. Perhaps the current full moon will help them on their way?

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  9. ...neighbours of the clouds, oh how I wish to be able to fly...

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  10. friko - the picture, the words - the moment is right there. so good. steven

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  11. Beautifully evocative poem, Friko. I enlarged the photo, and the swallow on the precipice looks scared to death! It just takes one step--a good lesson for us all. I wonder if your swallows migrate to Capistrano? No, that would be too far. the Canary Islands? xx

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  12. They are preparing to depart the west too. Love your photo!

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  13. Swallows are still here in the east, but they're beginning to gather on the wires in larger groups. Hope they stay around a bit longer - there are plenty of insects for them to feast on.
    (And I still haven't been able to get a good photo of one flying!)

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  14. Our swallows disappeared when I blinked one day last week. The dragonflies have left as well. So many lovely summer afternoons were spent on a lounge in the garden while watching the swallows and blue dragonflies swoop and whirl after the mosquitoes. Magical afternoons.

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