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Smiling as I read this. Sending it flying to my grandchildren.

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Thanks! I hope they enjoy it!

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Hello Jason! Wonderful poem and art!

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Thank you!

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🤎

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Have a wonderful winter, and a happy holiday season, Jason! Thank you for sharing your art and poetry!

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Thanks! I wish you the same wonderful winter and happy holidays!

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Jason, it's easy to forget that for many winter is arriving. We have had snow on the ground since Halloween but we do get warm days now and again. Winter here in the Rockies is always at least 6 months long. Couple years ago we had 10" of snow in early October and the last snow was 22" on Mother's Day.

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That's a lot of snow! I was born in Idaho and lived for a time in Colorado Springs and I much prefer the winters closer to the Pacific ocean.

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Thank you, Jason! Happy Holidays!

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Thanks, Paul! Happy Holidays to you too!

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I am always here for owl content.

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Thanks! I try to do something with an owl at least once a quarter!

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Beautiful!

Thank you so much!

If you have not seen it on any of the 500 other places I have put it - the Shortest Day of the year, the First Day of Winter - is the day I came kicking and Screaming into this world!

After seeing how I share that birthday with the late great Frank Zappa - it all made sense!! Don’t blame me, I was born into it!!

December Baby

Like Mothers of Invention

It is not our fault

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Happy Birthday! Frank Zappa is an amazing person to share a birthday with, let alone also having it on Winter Solstice!

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Thank you Jason! I always thought so! I have a few others, not quite as cool - Phil Donahue, Baseballs Dave Kingman, Chris Evert & Jane Fonda - quite a selection of all different kinds of people. Frank Zappa is definitely the coolest!

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Oh I just looked and also there is Keifer Sutherland, AND Samuel L

Jackson! 😂

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I love your stylized little owl.

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Thank you, Sue!

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What a great looking owl! My favorite bird :)

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Thanks! Owls are so fascinating

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Dec 18, 2023Liked by Jason McBride

Love the rhyme of adolescent crescent - and the owl are is awesome!!

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Thanks!

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Dec 19, 2023Liked by Jason McBride

I love it as well

I love both

But the strongest owl side to me is life s curiosity ❣️

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Curiosity is a wonderful trait!

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Love the artwork and haiku, Jason!

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Thank you!

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Beautiful owl and "adolescent crescent" is how I will now forever think of the croissant de moon!

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Thanks!

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Dec 19, 2023·edited Dec 19, 2023Liked by Jason McBride

This was a hoot!

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🤣

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Dec 21, 2023Liked by Jason McBride

Loved this. And I'm impressed with how you recognise the owl. We have one in the neighbourhood that I sometimes hear. But I wouldn't know what type it is. Your poem reminded me of the beautiful nights on which I hear the owl and can see the moon and stars.

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Thanks! One advantage of living in a semi-rural area for 25 years is I’ve had a chance to get to know the wildlife

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