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Happy Happy Happy 😍😍❤️❤️👍👍

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Such a beautiful story! Made me SO Happy!

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Thank you David!

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Lovely photos. Hope you are well!

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Thank you Vasant, I hope you are well also!

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"And who so happy,—O who,

As the Duck and the Kangaroo?"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54363/the-duck-and-the-kangaroo

You are the Edward Lear of bird photography, Karen! The swallow picking up the feather is possibly my favourite of all the hundreds of your photos I've seen to date. Stunning.

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Thank you Jeffrey! I had do look up Edward Lear but I loved reading that he, “is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. “

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Jul 19·edited Jul 19Liked by Karen Davis

“Did I play that one too far?” No, I don’t think its possible to have enough

happiness in any ,way, shape or form . A wonderful post. ( Maybe you should have multiple posts of ‘Happy as a’ ).

Especially love the sunrise.

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Thank you Lor!

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Beautiful images Karen - that photo of the Indigo Bunting is pure art!

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Thank you Neil!

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Jul 19Liked by Karen Davis

Happy as a hiker on the trail!

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Yes!! Love it Susi.

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Fabulous!

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Thank you Joan!

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Happy to have a place to come to while dealing with several transportation snafus due to the outage

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Oh, I’ve seen the news now. I was blissfully disconnected today so I didn’t know about the IT issues.

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Mmm, sounds challenging! What outage?

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Happy as a Karen Davis reader.

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Thank you Switter

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Well, it made me happy!

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I'm glad Nancy!

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Oh Karen! This maybe one of your best collections! Really. From the opening Van Gogh like morning sky, to each and every beautiful picture and line of happiness that follows. Love them all! I will be saving this post as a pick-me-up .... full of Happy as Karen's Posts!

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Thank you Sandy!

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This was fantastic and you did not go too far with it! That goldfinch looks ecstatic and you're right, bluebirds often look perturbed.

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Thank you Jeanne. Bluebirds do look perturbed, lol.

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Jul 19Liked by Karen Davis

Happy as a clam. Happy (and snug) as a bug in a rug! Happy as the inky-dinky spider! Happy as I am to read your essay.!

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Thank you Michael!

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Happy to see your hard work and creativity produce such joy...

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Thank you Clark!

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Jul 19Liked by Karen Davis

Happy as a friend who receives inspiration and beauty from another friend!

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Thank you Julie!

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