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  • Ten Foot Pole

        Pelicans not only pose wonderfully for photo ops, they groom themselves with those ten foot beaks, and even though you can observe this with your very own eyes, it is still a mystery how they manage to do it!        

  • Sandpipers

        I walk the line…           Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.

  • It Would Be Fun

        So alert and ready for life, hanging around marinas and boats.   Were we ever birds or dolphins or whales?   It seems like it would be so much fun.    

  • A Feast For The Soul

        Every relationship that we begin will one day end.   Pelicans high in the sky, only a moment shared and gone. Without a photograph, I might forget, until I see others like them on another day.   Fading light, moon rising, everything constantly changing.   This world is a feast for the eyes and…

  • Borrowed Sunrise

        A new day begins. Another chance to get it right, get it done, or maybe to just be. Be in the day, really in the day, today.   No worrying, no planning, and definitely no panicking. Picnicking maybe, but no panicking.   Just for today. And maybe tomorrow too!     (Yesterday's Sunrise,…

  • Lucky Anhinga

        Lucky Anhinga, everything it needs within diving or flying distance, enjoying the feast of the Everglades, without worries- not even bothered by the tourists on the boardwalk snapping photos.   Maybe we humans are just tourists on this planet. We seem to have organized ourselves in very strange and self defeating ways.  …

  • Days of Summer

      There's nothing half so much worth doing…         If you can finish this phrase from The Wind In The Willows, then you will know that it doesn't go with this photo, but is equally true!

  • A Welcome Ordinariness

        Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things that begins to include the storms and troubles and the peace and quiet.   All's well.      

  • Can You Fly?

        A young hawk sitting on a car roof in the parking lot. Patient and fearless, it watches me as I watch it.   If the hawk could ask me one question, what would it be?   "Where are your feathers?"   "Can you fly?"   or   "Is this your car?"      

  • What Do Big Birds Do?

      When I first observed a Great Blue Heron land in a tree, I was, to be honest, shocked! You'd think that it would have been a no brainer, it is a bird and birds do have a tendency to sit in trees… but such BIG birds?   One time while crossing the Chesapeake Bay…