What a lovely moment Karen, the walk, the quote, the touching moment with family. She’s quite lucky to have an aunt that appreciates this connection, as you’re quite lucky to recognize how special it is!💕 And the reminder that the caterpillars find the butterfly weird 🤣 is just so timely for me 🤣
So wonderful to reconnect when they’ve been gone❤️😍👍🥰. Hope you two had a great time together. Love the new flower picture… I’ve not seen that one either 👍❤️
Look at the wingspan of that great blue heron! I like how the ripple of its feather plays against the ripple of the water. I wonder if a momma duck can tell her duckling children apart? How to tell Billy from Bobby and Sally from Suzy??? 😅 Each picture today is a story! Many thanks Karen!
The question I ponder is how Billy, Bobby, Sally, and Suzy, plus the other eight, arrive in the world. In a marathon egg laying event similar to buying loose M&Ms that all fall into your hand instantly from a 25 cent vending machine at the tire store? Or a couple per day until mom decides she’s had quite enough? Sincere question. Sure, I could Google it the way I googled how woodpecker tongues work, or how chickens mate, but I want to savor the question a little longer. I need a little mystery in my life.
lol. I think it’s one or two at a time but in pretty quick succession. And mama ducks are known to raise ducklings that aren’t theirs so she may not have laid seven eggs. Three different times I’ve actually seen a mallard raising a baby wood duck. Wood ducks are interesting of course because they have to jump out of the nest and go find their parents. I once saw a string of seven or eight wood duck ducklings, tiny ones, walking across the busy road, probably making their way to the water where hopefully mom was waiting.
Thank you Jeffrey. I kind of love imagining how very different our two worlds are and yet nature can bring them together. (At least my image of Tokyo, which is really built on having been in KL, Jakarta, and Hong Kong but never Japan, is that it's almost polar opposite from my Missouri suburbs.)
Tokyo would probably surprise you! But yes, very different from how I imagine the Missouri suburbs (having never been there). And it's not only nature that brings the worlds together, but also your wonderful skill as a photographer.
The fledgling flycatcher has the silhouette of a goldfish! 😆
That's funny!
Beautiful photos!❤️
Thank you John!
What a lovely moment Karen, the walk, the quote, the touching moment with family. She’s quite lucky to have an aunt that appreciates this connection, as you’re quite lucky to recognize how special it is!💕 And the reminder that the caterpillars find the butterfly weird 🤣 is just so timely for me 🤣
:) Reminds me of this lovely little book I've had for years called, "Hope for the Flowers".
Enjoy your walk! Lovely pictures as always.
Thank you!
So wonderful to reconnect when they’ve been gone❤️😍👍🥰. Hope you two had a great time together. Love the new flower picture… I’ve not seen that one either 👍❤️
We had a wonderful walk. It was so great to hear what's going on in her life!
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Look at the wingspan of that great blue heron! I like how the ripple of its feather plays against the ripple of the water. I wonder if a momma duck can tell her duckling children apart? How to tell Billy from Bobby and Sally from Suzy??? 😅 Each picture today is a story! Many thanks Karen!
The question I ponder is how Billy, Bobby, Sally, and Suzy, plus the other eight, arrive in the world. In a marathon egg laying event similar to buying loose M&Ms that all fall into your hand instantly from a 25 cent vending machine at the tire store? Or a couple per day until mom decides she’s had quite enough? Sincere question. Sure, I could Google it the way I googled how woodpecker tongues work, or how chickens mate, but I want to savor the question a little longer. I need a little mystery in my life.
lol. I think it’s one or two at a time but in pretty quick succession. And mama ducks are known to raise ducklings that aren’t theirs so she may not have laid seven eggs. Three different times I’ve actually seen a mallard raising a baby wood duck. Wood ducks are interesting of course because they have to jump out of the nest and go find their parents. I once saw a string of seven or eight wood duck ducklings, tiny ones, walking across the busy road, probably making their way to the water where hopefully mom was waiting.
Blue herons are stunning in that they can be SO BIG and also make themselves so small! I love thinking about the mama duck telling them apart!
What Lor said!
Thank you Michael
Turtle! 🤩
I loved the tiny turtle so much! Thanks for noticing Antonia!
Just beautiful to see, at the end of the day in Tokyo.
Thank you Jeffrey. I kind of love imagining how very different our two worlds are and yet nature can bring them together. (At least my image of Tokyo, which is really built on having been in KL, Jakarta, and Hong Kong but never Japan, is that it's almost polar opposite from my Missouri suburbs.)
Tokyo would probably surprise you! But yes, very different from how I imagine the Missouri suburbs (having never been there). And it's not only nature that brings the worlds together, but also your wonderful skill as a photographer.
Sending your wishes back to . Along with a thank you for a quietly peaceful way to start my day.
Thank you Lor
The little snapper is just exactly toenail clipper size, for which I will trade three fuzzball quailettes.
LOL! Fair trade.