{"id":1904,"date":"2011-02-20T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/20\/2202011-rosy-spoons-dessert\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T11:24:11","slug":"2202011-rosy-spoons-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"2\/20\/2011: Rosy Spoons, dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Sunday! <\/p>\n

We have completed our meal of Roseate Spoonbills for this winter (I will back in Spoonbill country in April \ud83d\ude09 and we finish with this delicious dessert confection. It was taken a few moments after yesterday\u2019s helping, but turned 180 degrees so that the low afternoon sun was full on the birds, raising the pinks to a whole new level of intensity and giving dimension to the eye. <\/p>\n

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The bird is on that same mussel covered mangrove snag (see 2\/18<\/a>) and may well be the same bird. But what a difference the light makes!<\/p>\n

Canon SD4000IS behind the 15-56x Vario on the ZEISS DiaScope 65FL for equivalent fields of view of 1) 5000mm @ 1\/500th @ ISO 125, f13 effective, and 2) 2000mm @ 1\/1250 @ ISO 125, f5.6 effective.<\/p>\n

Processed in Lightroom for clarity and sharpness. <\/p>\n

That was a lot of Spoonbills, a 5 course meal. Do you suppose if I lived in Titusville and visited Blackpoint Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island NWR daily, or even weekly, I would get tired of looking at Spoonbills? Do you suppose they might become so ordinary that I would stop looking. I\u2019d like to think not. I\u2019d like to think I could continue to celebrate the amazing beauty of this bird in all its seasons and in every weather and light. I know that is the way it ought to be\u2026that I should be capable of that. I know that it is a matter of paying attention, of seeing through the film of ordinary to the extraordinary at the heart of every moment. I know that every moment is newly created\u2026that every moment the world, the universe, myself, is newly created, had I only the eyes to see and the mind to grasp. If I were only willing to abandon the narrative of my existence which commands so much of my attention\u2026if I were willing, as Jesus said, to die to myself I might live in the moment in all its infinite creative potential. I suspect that is the way we are made to live\u2026that such a life, being the life of our creator, is supposed to be ours as well. If I ever get tired of looking at Spoonbills, it should come as a wake-up call, as a blaring alarm to bring me back from the sleep and dream of self to the waking life I could be living with my creator. After-all, I fully believe my creator made, and makes, the ultimate sacrifice so that I can turn from self and see\u2026and in seeing, celebrate. Though it is generally beyond our culinary art, a good dessert, the right dessert, should leave you hungry, ready, pallet cleansed, for your next meal! <\/p>\n

So, will you be ready for more Roseate Spoonbills by April? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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