I went out to see if I could get a good sky watch shot for tonight- I didn't get much but I did scare some birds-- Catch some geese flying back North but w/ all the flight delays lately they couldn't come close enough for a good picture So, I snapped a quick sunset, gave up and went inside even though the streetlights weren't on yet
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
26 comments:
Great swf shots!
Happy easter.
Beautiful sunset with nice shades of pale red in the skies :)
Happy Good Friday & Easter Weekend!
These are great. I especially like the colors of the sunset. Happy Easter and have a great weekend.
I'd say you got plenty, Marcia. Those birds in flight are wonderful, and the geese look like a necklace aloft in the sky! God bless and happy Easter!
My hats off to you - I've been trying to get a flight formation for a couple of weeks to no avail- good job!
The sunset is really beautiful.
I like all these photos but you really captured those birds well in the first one. Happy Easter...
I like your photos. Great Sky Shot pictures. Thanks for sharing them.
These are GREAT! I caught a shot of those same geese going south last November. What a coincidence! LOL Love the colour of the sunset. Happy Easter!
Sky is always beautiful!!
Luiz
Loved the flock photo and the one where the sky is almost on fire ...
You did get some nice shots. The migrating birds or geese is a nice shot as is the colorful sunset.
Have a nice holiday weekend.
Abraham Lincoln
Brookville
very beautiful images, lots of birds, and beautiful colors in the last one.
excellent sky watch.
Hi Marcia
You certainly reached your 'goal' with these... they are a 'joy' to see.
I really liked the startled birds...
Tom
Marvellous the photographs, with very beautiful colours and possible subjects!
I wish you a Happy Easter!
Wonderful pictures..the geese are heading north?
Perhaps we will get spring like temperatures after all.
Happy Easter!
I really liked the shapes of the birds you chased up. They are at all angles as they try to escape.
I love the bird formation. Great shots!
wonderful!
Very pretty shots with lovely colours!
Wonderful pictures and the last one was so beautiful:D
It might have been just a 'quick capture', but it sure is pretty with the pink wispy clouds! Love the bird shot too.
Happy Easter.
The last picture is pretty, but I love the geese.
Very beautiful!!!
Happy Easter to you.
Good shots.
Great capture of the V formation.
Enjoy your Easter weekend.
I love the delicate colors that promise a wonderful new day in the morning.
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