Wilderness Wednesday: Baby Ducks

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Mama + Papa =

Babies

Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. – Michael Caine

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Perception

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. – Langston Hughes

We finally received some much needed rain, but it just made it more humid outside. As if that was possible. I got caught in it, twice. But I wasn’t the only one…Someone was singing in the rain and taking a shower…

He sounded like a cardinal, but he looked like a wet rooster.

Some people feel the rain. Some people just get wet. – Bob Marley

It’s all about perception! 

Happy Wednesday!

 

Family Photo

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My Dad took some great family photos this week.

I didn’t say whose family…they’re so cute, couldn’t you just gobble them up?

Some families have Kodak moments…some families have straight jacket moments. Find your tribe and love them hard.

Happy Weekend!

Wilderness Wednesday: Robin Condos

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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. – John Burroughs

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillful, swift and steady. – Bruce Lee

 

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love… – Pele

Happy Wednesday!

This is my entry for Cee Neuner’s Black & White  Challenge for Lines/Angles.

CFFC: Feathers

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I shall always remember how the peacocks’ tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks… ― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East

Admire someone else’s beauty without questioning your own.

This is my response to  Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers

Happy Wednesday!

Cee’s B&W Photo: In/On Water

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The day, water, sun, moon, night
– I do not have to purchase these things with money. – Plautus

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. – Plautus

Persevere in virtue and diligence. – Plautus

This post is for Cee Neuner’s Black & White Photo Challenge : In/On the Water

Happy Wednesday!

 

Wilderness Wednesday: Swan Song

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Friday may have been Fall’s swan song. It was sunny and warm…and since there was no power at work, I got to work from home.

Every year, I drive by a street lined with beautiful red maple trees, and every year I think, I must drive by with my camera some time. And I never do.

But since I was driving by on my way home, and feeling like a kid who just escaped sitting in a boring  classroom all day, I seized the moment (along with my dying cell phone).

The unexpected surprise is always sweeter. – Anonymous

After I took my photo of the maple trees, much to my delight, I discovered not only a man-made lake, but one boasting a white swan. 

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Arise

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Don’t be shocked! On our last day of holidays, I was awake at 4:30. Big Guy and I headed to the dock around 6, to watch the sunrise. After a week of unsuccessfully photographing gaggles of geese flying up and down the river, imagine my delight at finding the whole flock right on my doorstep!

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesdays: Chicks

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I wonder….do chickens do the human dance at their weddings?

Happy Wednesday!

WPC: Unlikely

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When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They’d all gobble back at once. – Levon Helm

I know there are plenty of “turkeys” in the city, and were I to roll down my window to “gobble at them”, they’d gobble back…in quite colourful language. I should be accustomed to that. What I’m not accustomed to literally seeing turkeys in the city!

Thanksgiving tip: Don’t let a Jedi carve the turkey.

Happy Star Wars Day!

More Unlikely Photos.