Seen on the Street category archive
Hiding in Plain Sight (Updated) 0
If you look really closely beneath the daffodils daylilies, you can see the mother duck sitting on her nest.
This is within three feet of the condo’s mailboxes under a little tree in the median strip of the parking lot. While we were there, she did not move–the only way to verify that she was alive was to see her blink.
We had another look this morning; she was still there, but facing the other way.
Addendum
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Here’s a picture taken today from a different angle.
Afterthought:
Residents have left dishes of water and of grass clippings for her. I don’t know whether ducks eat grass clippings, but it’s really very sweet.
Think Spring 0
Another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Happy Mothers’ Day 0
Afterthought:
They are the Veterans’ Honor Rose; I got them from Publisher’s Clearing House, which is like any other outlet store–if you know what you are doing, you can find deals. They have almost no scent, but the most nearly perfectly beautiful blossoms I have ever seen. And they can grow quite nicely in pots.
CBBT 0
The other local rag has a fantastic slide show depicting the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Follow the link.
H/T to my brother for the link.
In the Gardens 0
We went to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens the other weekend. Spring was springing.
A very big crabapple in bloom.
Some More Boids 0
Some more pictures from my brother on Virginia’s Northern Neck:
Winter Morning 0
Sunrise yesterday.
H/T Susan for the pic.
Coming Unglued . . . 0
. . . so I pulled the drawer out to re-glue it and a squatter moved in.
