The Majestic Feathers Blue Mug loves bird-friendly, earth-friendly, shade grown organic coffee!
Who am I? I am the drinking companion of a birder, birding tour organizer, photographer and videographer sharing day to day happenings, insights, nature adventures, and a love for bird-friendly, shade grown organic coffee. My worldwide mission is to get more people to buy and drink shade grown organic coffee.
As more and more forests disappear so that coffee can be grown, this habitat is lost forever to the birds and other life that used to thrive in the once lush habitat. One thing that humans can do to help is to purchase only shade grown organic coffee! Shade coffee is grown on coffee plantations that have a bright green, scrumptious canopy of tropical trees growing over the coffee plants. They are poly-culture farms and are a haven for birds, both the resident birds of the region and the wintering songbirds of North America. The more the economic demand for shade coffee rises the more likely it is that sun coffee plantations will be converted from mono-cultures to poly-cultures. So, you humans need to be filling your mugs with shade coffee! I have visited both a shade coffee farm and a sun coffee farm and you can take it from me there wasn't the sound of even one bird in the sun coffee. On the other hand, the shade coffee was teaming with life!
Here is a little more about me: Arabica shade grown organic coffee, especially freshly ground from beans harvested in Costa Rica, is my favorite brew. I also enjoy accompanying my companion on birding trips and adding caffeinated energy to long hours of planning and organizing for Majestic Feathers birding tours to Costa Rica and beyond. These activities keep me steaming and happy. I am especially fond of predawn hours in a photo blind near a Greater Sage Grouse lek in early spring when it is really chilly where I can be a hand warmer and a belly warmer. I like holding hot coffee while I am perched next to the computer station for consumption in the wee hours when a video editing deadline approaches. This is especially gratifying because seeing how all those hours seeking "just the right" shot come together is so cool. I have to say that accompanying my birder, photographer companion is quite the interesting daily grind, and I love it! Oh, and occasionally I like to throw in my two bits about current events. I really appreciate a good pun and, dang it, I just like getting my picture taken! I am quite the poser.
We have an awfully good time together traveling around and taking a picture of me every day and posting it on Facebook. We have been doing this since mid-July 2010, and we hope you will become a follower. We promise you lots of smiles, an occasional giggle, and relief from the stresses of the world.
Please join us on Facebook for our adventures, and please help us spread the word about shade grown organic coffee by telling your friends about us. Thanks for dripping...oops! I mean dropping by!
Click here to become a Facebook Fan of the Majestic Feathers Blue Mug Once you have clicked on this link and have arrived at the fan page "click" on the Like button and you are now a fan!
While you are on the Blue Mug's page check out Obama's State of the Union Address in which he heralded the importance of the Blue Mug in current affairs. The State of the Union Address is located in the photos file.
Here are few of the pictures that have been snapped of me since July 2010 along with some of the captions and comments from my Facebook fans.
Caption 2/14/11:
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over “tawee tawee tawee-teeoo”
Think it over “jimp” “dzik” “prididit”
Yes think it over. In the U.S. we drink 300 million cups of coffee a day and import more than 3.3 billion lbs of coffee beans each year. Forests are cut down to grow coffee, but organic shade grown coffee plantations are more like natural forest and provide food and shelter for wintering and resident birds. So make your next mug a bird friendly shade grown organic brew and please ask for the same at your coffee shop. The more we drink shade grown organic coffee the more likely it is that monocultures will be converted to shaded polycultures. And the birds sang “zzip” “seeew” “prrreet” “dzt” “tawee tawee tawee-teeoo” thank you.
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Valentines day Blue Mug you rock!!!
Caption 11/17/10: Face Book sisters, don’t forget to consult with your physician about when you should start getting mammograms and how often you should have one. Brothers on Face Book please remind your loved ones about this as well. Isn’t it nice that the Blue Mug even got a pink ribbon!
Comments from Facebook Fans:
Funny girl
You must have had an awsome Mamo tech!!! This is great!
You are a brave little cup lying there so tenderly. You are a great example for all "cups"! Get it! Tee hee
I am honored to support your cup(s) ; ) 3 >---
to clarify ; ) 3 >---
Caption 11/11/10: Oh thank goodness I hope this gets the taste of BP crude and oil dispersants out of my baleen!
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Holy Spirit, out of the waters you brought forth life: plankton & fish, grasses & birds, dolphins & whales, levianthan for the sheer joy of it, and us as your stewards of your creation. But now our greed & carelessness have despoiled it, death belches up into the water, your creatures are perishing, the coastlands befouled. We pray for all the disaster's victims. Hear our grief, forgive our folly, give us courage for action and sacrifice, &, please, let not your beautiful creation be forever lost.
Caption 11/5/10: My worst fears have been confirmed, but I think I have figured out a way to make it so she will have to take me this time! Do you think it will work?
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Poor baby he looks so sad! It must me hard for him when you leave for one of the Costa Rica birding tours. I feel for him.
Caption 3/1/11: Oh my ghost! March has come in like a hoard of thirsty stale Halloween peeps anxious to take a dip in a steaming mug of shade grown coffee! What next!
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Ha ha ha..yep that little vacation was good for you kathleen...
Caption 2/16/11: Sometimes it is hard to decide if I should keep the binoculars trained on the birds or take a drink of delicious bird friendly coffee to warm up a bit.
Comments from a Facebook Fans:
Ok ..so give me the name of some bird friendly coffee so I can once again enjoy my morning cup...I almost feel criminal anymore drinking my maxwell house...probably toxic to all four legged an flying creatures.
me too, please ;-)
Just be careful: coffee in the eye hurts.
Caption 1/27/11: Recently this sign appeared on a route I take fairly frequently. I think the graphic is pretty interesting and decided that the Mug should pose with it. I wonder what the multiple choice descriptions for this sign would be on the drivers license test. Care to share some possible descriptors?
Comments from Facebook Fans:
Railroad that can fry you ahead... caution!
I have a mug that looks like that. Clever use of it. A descriptor choice could be "Truckers: Turn here to clean the snow off the bottom your trailer on the high railroad track"
"If you lay a flatbed trailer on this railroad track, you will get an electrical shock."
The shade grown coffee that comes out of this cup is SO awesome that it will knock a flat bed trailer right off it's tracks!!!
Caption 1/20/11: There is nothing like a steaming mug of organic shade grown coffee from Costa Rica and last Easter’s Purple Peeps aged to perfection! Yum…
Comments from Facebook Fans:
I have heard that Peeps get better with age. Not my cup of, well, organic shade grown coffee however, but that is the word on the street.
Up until now I thought the mug had taste but I suppose each one has some degenerate habit.
My mother in law always has holiday peeps for me at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and when she buys them, she immediately punctures the plastic so they will be stale when I get them! Gotta love Margie :)
Caption 3/14/11: SAVE THE CRANES! Tomorrow is the deadline for contacting the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to express your opinion about the proposed hunting season on Sandhill Cranes (the deadline was 3/15/11). Please send an email tonight or tomorrow morning. Please see my earlier Facebook posting with the link with more information about how and who to contact in Kentucky about this issue provided by Julie Zickefoose on blogspot. Thank you!
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
OMG! Why would anyone want to shoot a crane? The thought makes me so sad. What is wrong with people!
Caption 3/8/11: Today the Blue Mug is requesting captions from its Facebook Friends. Thanks in advance.
comments from Faccebook Fans:
I think, therefore I drink.
Good one Jim. It could also be I think, therefore I drink bird friendly coffee.
There's a Charlie Sheen joke here somewhere.
Caption 1 23 11: Blue on blue, heartache on heartache…if you are drinking bird friendly coffee good for you! If you are not please start ASAP and help to end the heartache of birds that have lost their habitat to unshaded monoculture coffee crops.
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Blue on Black
Tears on a River
Push on a Shove
It Don't Mean Much
Caption 1/10/11: Yippee! A new case of Costa Rican organic shade grown coffee has arrived!
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
Where do you get it and do they have decaf???
Caption 10/31/10: It is simply GHOULISH not to drink organic shade grown coffee! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Comments from Facebook Fans:
Organic, forest shade grown, free trade, every day!
VERY NICE. VERY IMPRESSIVE. YES, THE ONLY JAVA TO BUY/CONSUME!
Nice, Kathleen! Everybody at our house loved your pumpkin and we had costa rican coffee to toast it with for breakfast.
Caption 9/17/10: The air was filled with Red-tailed Hawks today at the Silver Creek Perserve. This one seemed not the least bit distracted from its "mouse watch" and content to be photographed with the Majestic Feathers Blue Mug.
Comment from a Facebook Fan:
A little known fact: hawks, ever nonchalant though vigilant, are accomplished practitioners of meditative disciplines.
Caption 9/3/10: Organic Shade Grown Coffee is good to the Last draaaawp!
comments from Facebook Fans:
So are you on the rim of the Snake River Canyon or what?
Very clever! I like it!
Very cool! Where is this?
Yes this was taken on the north rim of the Snake River Canyon real close to the Perine bridge. Thanks for your positive comments.
Caption 8/21/10: Okay gang the caption for this one is up to you! The Blue is posing with a visage from Teatro ZinZanni in this shot.
Comment from Facebook Fans:
Oh that was a good year!
Espresso Instead of coffee this morning?
Oooh, is that fresh-brewed, organic Costa Rican coffee? Mmmmm, my favorite!
Caption 12/26/10: I just loved being the scribe for the Jim Sage Christmas Bird Count today! Photo composition derived by Zeke Watkins today.
Comments from Facebook Fans:
Lucky you! What a rewarding and graceful task.
That is such a beautiful count. Spending a day with Zeke and a bunch of raptors isn't too bad either.
where exactly were you? --Ok - saw the rest of the pics -- my old stomping ground!
Can't wait to see the list!
Can't wait to hear what you scribbled! Looks like you had great birding conditions.
Caption 10/ 13/10: Thank you everyone that worked so hard to rescue these guys!
Comment from a Facebook Fan: Amen to that!
Caption 12/15/10: Have fun submitting captions for this one!
Comments from Facebook Fans:
Wake up and smell the coffee!
om, om, om!
Does this cup make my nose look big?
The pause that refreshes.
Mr potatohead plays teaparty with his kids doll toys...good grief kathleen..where
r u now?
"I just like a Sunday morning with coffee and the newspaper." from Pele the Conquer"
You dug me up from the bowels of the earth and coffee is all you are offering, and a thimble sized mug to boot!
Are you out of the country?
Nope!
Oh. I thought perhaps you had teleported with mug to Easter Island.
Caption 3/15/11: For the people of Japan, for all of us, for the birds and all creatures, for every living thing.
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