Marion Deeds

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Author of COMEUPPANCE SERVED COLD, reader, lover of crows.

Applique Banner, red and gold fabric letters reading NO King on a textured cream colored background. The O in NO has a crown outlined in stitching.
A crow perches on the peak of a roof. Its head is turned to look right. The sky behind it is unbroken blue.
Against a pale green blurred background, a raven perches on a brown fence post. Its body faces the camera and its head is curved to viewer's left. The ruffling of feathers on breast and head can be seen. Very glossy.
At dawn, against a backdrop of dark evergreen trees, a doe stands facing the camera. The grass under her feet is pale green.
A small fishing boat, in the center of the frame, heads to the right. the water around it ripples, creating a blurry reflection of the highway bridge, and a crisper reflection of the boat itself. A wake fans out to the left.
A ruffled raven sits on a white fence post, a walnut fragment under one talon. The crow looks to the right. The eye can be seen and the beak is thick, long with a noticeable hook. Picnic tables in background.
A green-bodied hummingbird hovers, its beak deep in a dark purple tubular flower.
A large raven perches on a white wooden fence, looking back over its shoulder. Its large bead ends in a noticeable hook. Blurred background includes green shrubbery and white flowers.
Against a blue and white sky (thin clouds) three poles in the beach stand march away from the viewer, left to right. Beyond the farthest you can see light surf as Big River reaches the ocean, and beyond that, two tree-covered hills.
Four crows perch in a bare-branched winter tree, against a dark blue sky.
(Image: Hardcover book: Appalachian Strong in white text at the top. A rising sun casts orange rays across forested hills. At left, one valley is shrouded in fog. Lower left a bit of white-water river shows. Text at bottom: A Charity Anthology for Hurricane Relief Survivors.)
A male great blue heron perches in the canopy of a tree. The bird is in mating plumage, and a frilly white feather "beard" dangles from its throat. Who says beards aren't sexy?
A sphinx moth rests on a spike of blue lupin, its wings open. The wings have black and white bands, with red and black on the back or bottom. The body is thick and the moth is about the size of a hummingbird. Blurred in background, a solid wooden fence and green shrubbery.
An installation shaped like a human heart stands in an empty lot directly in front of a redwood tree. The body of the heart is made up of tiny houses in rusted metal, with chrome tubes representing veins and arteries. The bottom of the sculpture glows with red light from within.
Close up; a long-tailed north American weasel peers out of a gopher hole. The white patch between its eyes is a rough rectangle. Grass pokes up around the hole.
A raven perches on the corner of a roof, staring left. Lots of details of the feather in shoulders, wings and tail. The eye is visible. New leaves on a tree form a bright green background.
Nearly full screen, a blooming dahlia faces down, right. The petals are mostly white with pink-lavender edges. Top left, a dark green leaf shows.
Protester, a woman with curly silvery hair, black cap and black glasses, holds up a sign reading, "Only butterflies should be monarchs." The sign is studded with artificial monarch butterflies.
A swag of eight rainbow wheels dangle between two cement pillars in a shopping mall. A light pole and lush green trees show in the background.
Medium image of a black crow facing right. Beak, eye and talon are well delineated. You can see individual feathers near the neck. Two bright green lines of wisteria snake around behind it. More wisteria, blurry, in background.
Against a background of green shrubbery, two open rainbow umbrellas fill the lower half of the frame. No people show. Sunlight shines through them, making them glow.
A shallow pool of still water reflects a tree filled with green and gold leaves, as well as a stand of green reeds. Various blond stones break up with water. Greenery in background.
Against a blurred background of bright green leaves, a ruby-throat hummingbird sits on a slim branch, beak pointed to the right. Bits of blue sky show through the leaves.
In an unmanicured yard, mostly gray and brown, a gray fox lies down, staring straight at the camera. Its ears are up and its eyes open. The brownish gray of its back blends with the rootbase of the artemisia plant behind it.
A small male gray fox lifts his muzzle to smell the wind in a cluttered back yard, with wisteria and a wooden fence beyond him. His neck is reddish brown and his plumy gray tail has a wide streak of black.
Cover of The River Has Roots by Amal El Mohtar. Against a white background and a series of S curves, three dahlias are in full bloom. The author's name is in red at the bottom.
Cover of One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
Cover of EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES. Against a blue background, the title is done in pink/lavender. A black cat sit in the "C" of Compendium. A border of branches, mushrooms, and eyes surround the title.
Left to right: (L) Man in a white scientist's coat, with a headset mic and a control panel. He wears a tan baseball cap. Right of him, a six-foot silver Dalek, with bright blue eye piece staring at the camera; complete with plunger and egg-beater weapons. The hemispheres on the lower body are robin's egg blue.
At twilight, the silhouette of a crow perched on a Neighborhood Watch sign. Bare branches of a tree in the background.
Book Cover of FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART by Gennarose Nethercott. Against a green crossstitched quilt, the white cover features a fox, goat and own in black around the edges, surrounded by vines. A pink flower in lower right corner.
Wings folded over back, looking right, a red-tailed hawk perches on the streetlight. A single slender branch curves up toward the light. The sky is blue.
Image shows a redtailed hawk, looking to the viewer's left. Sunlight glints off its light, fluffed up breast. The bottom of the streetlight it sits on shows a label; 53 LED 2K
Against a blue-gray twilight, a right moon shines pale gold behind some bare tree branches. The features of the moon are visible.
Against a blue sky, four crows perch in the bare branches of a maple tree.
A crow or juvenile raven perches on a driftwood log. Sand visible in background.
A black velvet fascinator (flat crown) rests on a wig-head. A diamond-shaped, faceted royal blue gem holds a spray of black plumes that curl over the crown. Books and power cords show in the background.
Against a fog-gray sky, a crow sits silhouetted in the middle of a web of bare branches. The branches end in seed pods the look a little like flowers.
Book Cover for Comeuppance Served Cold. Against a dark background, a female figure in flapper clothes stands in a martini glass. Below the title (which is in white) Art Deco figures of a cat and a wolf stand, in shades of teal. Cocktail glasses and bottles in pink and green line the bottom. Art Deco flourishes fill the corners.
Book cover: The Last One by Rachel Howzell Hall. Against a black background, a red and gold moth hovers above a crescent moon. Tendrils of gold and red mushrooms twine around the title, done in white.
Painted on a wall, three cartoon images of women. L to r: redhaired white woman in a blue dress with pearls, Black woman in a pink dress, white blond woman in a yellow dress. they hold a painted sign reading "We're not Going Back."
From the American side, a view of two Niagara waterfalls, a feathery plume of mist, with the horseshoe falls in the background.
Orange persimmons, the flattish round ones, fill the frame. Several have the tops with the green leaves, and some have black lines on them.
Full face, bronze sunflower. One honeybee works the center of the flower, while near the top, a golden bee takes flights. Sunkissed green leaves surround it.
Against a blue sky and green leaves, two white rose buds point up. The highest one is half-unfurled, with vanilla-colored shadows at the base of the petals.
A large wind-ruffled raven perches on a weathered whitish fence post. Brown grass in the background.
Against a green hedge, a cluster of Shasta daisies and purple salvia.
A scruffy raven peers out of the frame, head cocked.
Blue Heron stands on the sidewalk of a neighborhood street. Houses and cars in background.
In a wide puddle on asphalt, a robin bathes, perfectly reflected in the still water.
Against the dark trunk of a young oak tree sits an orange cat, looking to our left, surrounded by dandelions and tall summer grasses.
A gray and white cat sits atop a pile of dirt dug out for a retaining wall. the cat is surrounded by yellow caution tape. A house is visible in the background.
From the driver's side, a gray cat with a white mask around its eyes stares out of a car.
Gray fox sits up, facing to our right, in full sun.
In a drainage ditch surrounded by fallen leaves, a black cat stares at the camera.
Sleepy-eyed gray fox tips its head back to catch the sun. Olive tree in background, green garden hose among weeds in foreground.
In a patch of sunlight next to an olive tree, a gray fox curls up, looking straight ahead.
A bright yellow dahlia, backlit by the sun, fills the frame.
In a boarded-up alcove of a white brick building, a mural of a Hokusai-style wave, flanked by two other images.
Against bright green leaves of a tree, a raven on the corner of a roof stares out in profile, head lowered, feathers ruffled.