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Feathers On Friday: Three of A Kind
For my ‘Feathers On Friday, I’m participating in Nancy Merrill’s ‘A Photo A Week Challenge’. This week it’s three photos of the same subject from different perspectives.
Mervin Muscovy duck is quite a striking looking bird who doesn’t visit our backyard very often,
When he saw me watching him, he turned his back, as if to say in his best Greta Garbo voice, ” No paparazzi please. I just vant to be alone.”
Some time later, I spotted him having a siesta just outside my bathroom window.
Wishing you all a splendid weekend.
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Pull Up A Seat In Memory Of……
It’s time once more for XingfuMama’s ‘Pull Up A Seat Challenge’.
Our favourite local wildlife reserve is frequented by many elderly folk who come to admire the birds and generally just to sit and enjoy the peacefulness found in nature. Dotted along the boardwalk are benches donated by grateful families in memory of their loved ones who used to enjoy walking and resting here.
The benches are all very plain and serviceable,
but the view from this one is absolutely wonderful,
and sitting up there on the guard rail was this Little Blue Heron, having a very cute bad hair day.
Happy Sunday to you all.
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Feathers On Friday: They Say That This Is My Best Side
Mr. GBH poses for the camera. I told him he’s going to be famous on my blog. He replied, “I already am.”
Wishing you all a happy weekend.
Welcome Easter Visitors
How lovely it was to see Rosie Spoonbill down at the water’s edge on Sunday morning. She’s back again today, so I’m hoping she’ll be a regular visitor.
What would Easter be without a Bunny hopping by,
or Mrs Beakley proudly showing off her new brood of ducklings?
Wishing you all a great week ahead.
Floral Friday: First Gardenia Flower
A few weeks ago, my daughter sent me a gardenia bonsai, “Just because I love you, Mom.” What a lovely surprise it was, and I stood it in my kitchen, read the instructions and waited for the buds to come out. I was supposed to mist it daily, keep the pebbles moist in the tray and make sure not to water it too much. Not that difficult really. My daughter was disappointed when she saw the photo, because in the brochure, it showed a bright red pot with many flowers already blooming.
I followed the instructions religiously, but all that happened was that a couple of buds fell off. Then I had the bright idea to stand it outside in the humidity instead of inside in the air conditioning. Light bulb moment! The very next day, my first flower started to appear and now it’s looking gorgeous.
The fragrance is wonderful and takes me back to when I was a teenager in the 60’s. For Christmas, my very favourite aunt bought me my first bottle of perfume, which was ‘Gardenia’ by Goya. I can still remember how excited I was when I opened the bottle and dabbed a couple of drops behind my ears.
Tonight we’re going to see the fabulous Judy Carmichael performing at one of our local theatres. I wish I could play piano just like her. Tomorrow evening, we have dinner and dancing here at the club, so that should be fun too. Wishing you all a very happy weekend.
Feathers On Friday: Mr GBH Does A Photobomb
So, the wood stork community and a few of their Anhinga friends were just hanging out together having a casual get together and just as I’d got them nicely posed for their photo shoot………
…. all of a sudden, a very streamlined Mr GBH decided to flash past like a streak of lightning. What a showoff!
Happy Friday and a pleasant weekend to you all.
Pull Up A Seat: Icy and Warm
For XingfuMama’s “Pull Up A Seat Challenge” this week, I thought I show you two extremes of seating options. This icy ‘bench’ in Antarctica was absolutely the coolest seat I ever sat upon.
After our trip, we flew home via Palm Beach airport, where I found these hot-pink seats welcoming us back home again.
Have a great week, and don’t forget that If you wish to showcase some of the different kinds of seating you’ve encountered at home or on your travels, you just click this link
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Friday Feathers: Just Pecking A Hole In Your Palm Tree
Woody woodpecker has been seen on numerous occasions, clinging to the trunk of one of our palm trees. Usually he flies away before his photo shoot, but yesterday he was too busy to notice he was being spied on. That’s quite a sizeable hole already. I hope he intends making his home there and raising a family.
Last year, one of our neighbours across the lake told hubby that he became so irritated by the rat-a-tat-tat of a woodpecker incessantly pecking at a tree in his backyard, that he had the tree chopped down. I don’t know about you, but that’s what I would definitely call overkill. I felt sorry for the palm tree as well as the woodpecker.
Happy weekend to you all.
Wordless Wednesday: A Peaceful Nesting Reflection
