Monday, April 25, 2016

Monday American Dipper Blogging

American Dipper, Virgin River (Zion) - Utah  2016

Seen here perching on a rock in the Virgin River. A favorite of John Muir's:

He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows. Among all the mountain birds, none has cheered me so much in my lonely wanderings, —none so unfailingly. For both in winter and summer he sings, sweetly, cheerily, independent alike of sunshine and of love, requiring no other inspiration than the stream on which he dwells.

- The Mountains of California

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