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Thank you Sharon!

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Beautiful! Relaxing images. Your posts with the pics and quotes would make a wonderul book titled by the same name as your Substack!

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Thank you Linda! I have been contemplating that I'm publishing my book one page at a time out here. :)

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have you ever thought about/would you be interested in submitting one or two of your bee photos to the NY Times Spelling Bee game? They always a closeup of a bee photo for each day's tips for how to solve it and I enjoy looking at the photos more than playing the game! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html

I can get the email address for you to submit if you are interested. <3

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I've thought about it but never done it. I play the spelling bee every day! It's what i call a healthy addiction.

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it is a healthy one, for sure. please consider it. your photos are right up there with others that are published. it would be fun to see them there.

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Beautiful images Karen - the Common Grackle looks awesome the way the light is striking their head and neck feathers.

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Thank you Neil!

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Love them all! That first one ... lake as smooth as glass...so peaceful!

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Thank you John

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Pawpaws! I love names like that! There's an innate, nursery rhyme- like appeal I think. Wigwams, tomtoms, pompoms peewees, flim flam, rum dum, mishmash, riprap, OshKosh, teeter totters, geegaws and seesaws. Our language is loaded with examples.🙂

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Ha ha - yes!

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Consistency in creating. Keeping on putting it out in the world. Not attached to fruits of labor but embodying the process as the prize

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Thank you Paolo! I love this - and it fits with what I'm writing about for Sunday and helps clarify something for me too.

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Love thinking about the person who named a fruit pawpaw! 😄 I bet they saw the smiling ducklings too. I especially like the smile on the last pic of the big duck at the end of its bath. All pics of bees and flowers and our world of beauty are a treat. Thank you!

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I love that - I mean someone did name it! Thank you Sandy.

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I just discovered many pawpaw recipes online! Oh my! I have never seen or tasted pawpaw. Some describe it as a flavor between bananas and mangos. I see several bread recipes that use it. I would need to convert any to my dietary needs, but it sounds like a fun thing to try. ✨😀

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"Drops of Beauty" is an interesting title, handle, caption. The beautiful images "drop" into my mail box? The beautiful World you capture visit me drop by drop? When I forward your "eye on the world" I tell my friends to be prepared for "awe & wonder" or a "meditation on miracles". I think Einstein once said you can choose to live your life as if EVERYTHING is a miracle or nothing is... He chose the former. Karen, you help me make the same choice. Thank you for your "Miracle Moments ".

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Thank you Clark, I appreciate this very much. I can't remember now how I came to that title, most likely it just appeared in my mind as a gift. I agree that everything is a miracle!

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Will you be eating pawpaws when they ripen? Wish I had chicory, have endless dead red clover blossoms that need to be cut back. Such a simple but beautiful description: leaf green and water blue.

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You know, I've never actually seen any fruits in there but I am probably not on that part of the trail in the right part of the year because it's just so mosquito thick! Good luck with the clover!

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Beautiful photos, as always. That duck's neck flexibility is a wonder to behold!!

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Thank you Mary!

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