Blogging from A to Z, happy things. XOXOXO love and kisses to our beautiful earth!
These were taken in Hawaii, with my cell phone as my big camera ran out of battery power.
And all creatures great and small as well: XOXO.
Blogging from A to Z: the letter X.
Happy things from A to Z, the letter W. W for water, wet and wash!
We were very excited about the green turtles in Hawaii. But we photograph birds too:
Down by the water, checking it out. Then the featured post, bathing in the sea. And a clean wet bird:
We think this is a yellow billed cardinal, originally introduced from Brazil, here.
Blogging from A to Z, the letter W.
For the Daily Prompt: bestow.
The universe and earth bestow their beauty on us.
I am thinking about Earth Day today, because on Earth Day I was singing in two concerts.
My theme is happy things: under, us, universe.
Under us
earth
over us
universe
One attendee at the concert said that we added to the joy in the universe.
Happy Earth Day.
Blogging from A to Z,Β the letter T! T is for turtle and teenage and travel!
On Hawaii we went to a park and saw green turtles. They are born about 1000 miles away on a different island. They travel in the sea and now come to Hawaii to rest. The ones who rest on the beaches are 20 to 140 pounds. As mature adults, they will be 200 to 400 pounds and live back in the sea.
We both have zoom lenses. We are not supposed to go closer than 20 feet.
And here is one just arriving for a rest:
Welcome to Mundane Monday #157: two for one.
I took this coming out of church two weeks ago. Now we have at least buds on the trees. I was looking for the song sparrow, lower in the tree. When I took the photograph I recognized the bonus: a hummingbird up near the top.
I tried to get a closer shot, but the sparrow moved up and the hummingbird took off.
Interpret the theme, link your entry and I will list them next week. Mundane Monday #156, the theme was serendipitous light. Look at these:
Colette B: sky photos.
K. L. Allendoerfer: California poppies.
Happy Monday and have a wonderful week!
Another photograph from this morning: a Pied-billed Grebe.
At first it was asleep, reasonably close.
We tried not to wake it, but it quickly alerted. Good morning! What do early humans get? Bird photographs?
Blogging from A to Z about happy things, the letter r. R for relationship, red and real.
I’ve been down to the same beach twice in the last 2 weeks, and both times there have been a trio of great blue herons. Two adults and a teen? I don’t know, but right before the second one wandered over, I took this shot:
Caught something, hooray! And then the other heron comes to ask, “What did you catch? Tasty? Are there more?”
I love walking outside, it balances clinic. I am just present and real. I don’t speak heron well enough to worry about their blood pressure. Time just to watch.
And red, my son is visiting.
Blogging from A to Z, Q is for query, quest, question.
I took the afternoon from work yesterday to go for a walk with my son, who is visiting from Maryland. We went to Chetzemoka Park and down to the beach. More blue herons and more photographs! Hiking back, we saw a halo around the sun, above the ridge. I know that this is formed from a reflection of ice crystals in the atmosphere, more information here. It is magical! And there was something in the tree…. what is it? A quest with a zoom lens reveals:
In the first picture the angle is different and the eagle is right by the trunk of the tree, difficult to see. We were watching great blue herons take off from the beach and land inΒ trees on the ridge but I heard an eagle’s cry and the silhouette is wrong for a great blue heron.
Queries and questions and quests: happy letter Q.
Blogging from A to Z, my theme is happy things. O for open, outdoors, over!
Over. How can over be a happy thing? My photograph is from last week, the trees here are so tall and tower over us!
I love to walk outdoors. Outdoors is another happy thing for me. I had a thousand posts on this blog before I really knew what it is about. It is celebrating the place where I heal, where I stay balanced from work: outdoors. I get to share the photographs I take:
Open. When I walk outdoors, my heart opens. I feel joy! It is still dark here this morning, but as soon as it begins to get light, the birds start their madness! I sing back to them. This year I am learning the song of the towhee. The smaller birds are so good at hiding in bushes when I want to take pictures. I want to sing like this towhee:
And those are today’s happy things about the letter O.
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