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Till recently Sleep and I were pretty good friends. By that I certainly don’t mean we were so into each other we spent all our waking hours together. Errr, that sure is a funny sentence if I ever heard one. If sleep and I were at all to spend all our waking hours together, they’d no longer be ‘waking’ hours. Right? But I digress.
What I meant by ‘we were good friends’ was that we connected pretty well, met at the right times only, and also said our goodbyes at an early hour each day. There was no business of hanging out together during the day which meant I had plenty of time to do stuff that needed to be done. One little butterfly gland came unhinged, and changed everything, egging sleep on to meet meet me at odd hours, day/night no bar and at other times holding it captive, making me wait and wait, in vain.
In short what I am trying to say is today is one of those days when Sleep has been busy throughout the day trying to get me into bed (and I have already obliged during the day, but will it leave me alone now? No!). So I will leave you with these pictures (not great ones as they were taken through a window pane from inside a room) of three Yellow-billed Babblers that came seeking asylum after 48 hours of incessant rain.
Of course, I told them they could stay as long as they wished, but they flew away when the rain stopped for a while.
©Shail Mohan 2015
Three little babblers huddling on a sill
Posing for Shail’s shutter to fill
When the rain stopped
Off they hopped
And now sleep holding Shail to it’s compelling will!
Hehe… in a nutshell! 🙂
Cool pictures.
It’s funny thinking of the personification of sleep. Sleep and I do not have a very good relationship. It takes him a long time to get here at night.
Oooh, that’s not good! 🙂
I hope that you find balance with Sleep again, and thank you for sharing those beautiful birds! They look downright snuggly.
This is the first time I am hosting these birds this close. I was sorry to see them fly away 🙂
Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you for your comment. 🙂
I love the captions more than the pictures, Shail!
Aha. Thank you, Sandhya 😀
Have I told you how much I love these birdie posts of yours? A lot! This was so adorable. 🙂
I arrived here late and I hope you and Sleep have gone back to your old relationship by now 🙂
Yes, we have! 😉
🙂