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handmade ghost

I love when all the neighborhood #quorb band together.

Photo of eleven California quail milling nervously about in the rock border to my neighbor's driveway. They are so plump and round and wonderful, their bodies a wonderful slate blue with brown wings and cream-colored, quill-like detailing on their lower breasts and wings. Many of the males are in profile showing off their gorgeously dark, colorblocked faces, which are outlined in white and capped with fuzzy gold eyebrows, a white "sweatband," and a punctuation mark of feathers that curl like a Kewpie doll question out of their foreheads. A pair of females are in profile as well, though they are more grey than slate-blue, with softer brown faces and forehead punctuation that is less question than quote. They all have a constellation of tiny white specks on the backs of their necks, and they all look both bold and anxious: They startle with vulnerability at the drop of a hat, but they band together for strength and subterfuge, blending cleverly in with the rocks and scruff of the neighborhood.
6 Nov 2024 at 23:43 | Open on sunny.garden
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handmade ghost

Does anyone need a virtual emotional support quail? Free to all (or take a quail, leave a quail).

Photo zoomed in on one of a dozen or so California quail standing amidst the grey rocks and rusty fallen leaves that border a neighbor's yard. Like all California quail, this gentleman is so appealingly round and plump you might feel like you could reach into the photo and gently scoop em up into your cupped hands for a snoogle. Eir face and throat are a velvety black, outlined in bold white with a feathery blonde unibrow that shags up from under a matching white line that crosses the forehead like a sweatband and is capped with more dark velvet and a poet's plume that curls out from the center like a pretty, slightly silly pennant. Tiny black and white stippling decorate eir plump nape and eir breast, a rich, slate grey, is likewise embroidered with a pattern of creamy speckles that appear like quills or student stitches along the flanks and as a dense pattern of bottom-heavy half-moons across the lower breast. This one is for you, your very own.
8 Nov 2024 at 23:39 | Open on sunny.garden
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