Still Life with Robin: For Mothers & Mother Figures & Everyone Who Has or Had a Mother on Mother's Day

by Peggy Robin

I thought it would be a good idea to show a few photos of loving moms and babies to start your Mother's Day.

First, one of DC's most celebrated moms, Mei Xiang, with her growing cub, Tai Shan (formerly known familiarly as "Butterstick"):

Next, from the far-flung California coast (Monterey Bay) -- a sea otter mom cuddling her baby:

And now to Africa, where the fearsome rhino is a tenderly protective parent:

...and home again to DC, on Capitol Hill where we find this Mama Duck sheltering her duckling:

You might also enjoy this brief video of a different Mama Duck and her brood, who had hatched on a balcony near the Secret Service headquarters. The agents in charge of protecting people in power took the time to protect this little family by moving them down to the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/secret-service-escorts-mama-duck-and-ducklings-to-us-capitol-reflecting-pool 

And (being a Robin myself) I have to end with this Mama Robin feeding her chicks.

Happy Mother's Day to all on the Cleveland Park Listserv, whether you are a mother, a stepmother, a grandmother, or a great-grandmother, and also to all the children of mothers, which is to say, everyone.

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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays -- or occasionally on Sundays.