For my friend Caroline, a black crowned night heron.Β We were 15 feet away when I spotted it! Hopeful, we think, that it was camouflaged and we were just being tourists. It was not frantic, more watchful.
For the Daily Prompt: frantic.
black crowned
Category Archives: water
earth, water, sky
For the Daily Prompt: quartet.
Three of four elements.
leisurely
For the Daily Prompt: micro.
Slow food, slow travel, oops! Do not get in the water at Two Steps Beach except at the steps! Sea urchins: we don’t want to hurt them and they do not want to be stepped on. We need to ask questions and not blunder in….
wait for me
We are in Hawaii.
These are juveniles, we read, up to 140 pounds. They come on shore now that they are protected, to rest. The adults are 200-400 pounds. It is hard to imagine how large the adults are. We are not to go within 2 car lengths — hooray for a zoom lens.
water and light
For Wordless Wednesday.
incubate
For yesterday’s Daily Prompt: incubate.
Taken in February 2011. One thing I loved about synchronized swimming is that our older girls worked and played with the younger ones.
And here is my daughter and another teammate posing for one of the younger girls to take a picture: their smiles are much bigger and more spontaneous than when they pose for us!
practice
For the Daily Prompt: patience.
Athletes, singers, scientists, computer programmers, translators, think of all the disciplines where it takes so much practice and patience. This is our team synchronized swim team in 2010.
grasp
For the Daily Prompt: grasp.
Oh, a coot, a lovely coot, in the early morning. I don’t want to grasp it, really, but I was trying to capture the moment when it ducks under the water. I failed and got this:
Coots always look a bit like wind up toys to me, different from the ducks. They move more jerkily. They look a little bit mechanical. I think the neurological wiring is more primitive than ducks, but look, it works and they’ve survived! I can’t argue with that!
I will keep trying to catch that up and dive motion….
abstract
putter
We went to take photographs in the morning at Kai Tai Lagoon. We started at one end and walked to the other. There was a large distant flock of ducks, very quiet. When we got close enough for my zoom to handle, we found out why: most of them were asleep. In the early morning and gorgeous sun yesterday.
I want a day of puttering and napping and meandering, like these ducks.
For the Daily Prompt: meander.
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