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May 20, 2008

WHEN I WENT DOWN TO MAKE TEA the other morning, there was a peace rally going on in the kitchen. This sometimes-angry guy was just waking up, too, after slumbering atop my 1970s stone peace symbol on the windowsill. I escorted him to freedom in a dish towel, and he was off…presumably to spread the word about peace among the races. If a wasp can get this message, then why not us?

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Keith Alexander says:

May 20, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Love that stone peace sign.
margaret says:

May 20, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Welcome, Keith. A vintage possession I unearthed when doing a major housecleaning last winter.
boodely says:

May 21, 2008 at 8:26 am

Hallelujah!
Beautiful photograph.
margaret says:

May 21, 2008 at 9:38 am

Welcome, Boodely. Funny you should say that…besides plants, one of my other obsessions is collecting songs from around the world and through the ages and styles that contain the word “hallelujah” in any of its forms (alleluia…etc.). So yes, hallelujah!
mplonski says:

May 21, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Your blog is just all the buzz. ;->
starr cunningham says:

September 28, 2008 at 12:18 pm

great picture. wasps are cool. wasps love water, so its a regular thing to see the wasps and birds sitting all together around the edge of the bird bath….very funny love that you rescued it

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