
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

Be kind Be safe Wash your hands Wear your mask
The French Open is closed
They have thrown in the towel
It is a très nice towel
though never to be blessed
by Rafi sweat or Roger cool

Dorsey and Neil in his brother Wally’s field of inspiration; Courval, Saskatchewan (pre Covid19 social distancing)

Potemkin village definition: a false front or facade. Potemkin Village named for Grigory Potemkin, who is said to have built sham villages to impress Catherine the Great on her tour of the Crimea

An ode to an elegy: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

Another beauty, in shape and song, that takes me back to the ranch.
Links to an audio of the poem and the meadowlark’s song are below:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Meadowlark/sounds

Yellow-Headed Blackbird pair near Old Wives Lake, Saskatchewan
Photo courtesy of: Giselle Forest, Mossbank, Saskatchewan