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29 May

I dreamt I could fly

By Silver Blue

To soar like the birds…

I’m reminded that Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

LOL.

Silver Blue, who is no weasel.

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18 Apr

Which end is up?

By Silver Blue

1996, Newport News Park. Of course, I could have used a title of “Egrets, I’ve have a few…but then again, too few to mention.” Or I could have ‘craned’ my brain in coming up with a catchy phrase…. or maybe I couldn’t have heron all.

What I’m trying to so say is I don’t know what kind of bird this is, but I liked the photo. Those were back in the days when everything was manual. I think I prefer photography these days.

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Silver Blue, who will be rocketing to dreamland on the wings of a silver bird…or at least it will feel like it.

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16 Jan

Various shots that made me smile.

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I’m a bit random with today’s post simply because I snapped whatever photos made me smile. The fact it was almost 50 helped warm me up (and tomorrow will be in the 60s…oh Mother Nature, you’re late on your HRT! (Hormone Replacement Therapy)).

Heading out the door, I see a shot through the trees. Abstract, but the muted colours (and the last remaining hanging dried blooms on this crepe myrtle) spoke volumes to me.

Moving on and through the neighbourhood, we come across…

I’ve always dreamt of owning a house with a turret. In fact, in 1980, when my family moved from South Carolina back to Virginia, one of the houses we looked at had a turret — and a spiral staircase leading to the room at the top of the stairs — it would have been perfect for MY bedroom. The downside? There were holes in the walls where it looked like someone had punched the walls in fits of anger, and the entire house reeked of cat urine. PASS! Perhaps one day I’ll get my house with a turret. (By the way, this house is NOT the one we looked at 32 years ago. That house still is standing, and has been (I would gather) kept up quite nicely. The lawn is well kept, and the house — at that time a Pepto-Bismol pink on the cedar shake shingles — is now a more demure olive green.

I also enjoy nautical themes. This isn’t actually a boat tie-off, or the edge of a pier. It’s merely a property boundary marker. Still… with the water in the background, it made me smile.

Finally…

Eat peacefully, wee birdie. No cat or squirrel can get to you in here. Two days ago, that seed bin was completely full. I’d say the wee birds have voracious appetites. (Easier to do when you know you’re not as easily marked to be someone else’s dinner!)

Silver Blue, who dreams of castles, turrets, and of being an eagle on the wing.

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