Watery Wednesday #29

It's Watery Wednesday time. If you haven't joined in yet, try it. I'm sure you can find a shot that will put a little water in our eyes. Here's my contribution, egrets enjoying the lovely blue water. And if you like these you might like my preening goose in the post below this one.




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Goosey Goosey

This goose was good enough to pose for me. Actually, he was busy preening but I think it make for some great shots. I shared one of them in my My World Tuesday post below.

My World Tuesday - It's Spring

One of the places I love to visit is Descanso Gardens. This is my first Spring there since I started going and I loved it. I had such a good photo day. I took over 600 photos so of course I didn't know where to begin but I will be posting more later. How can I not? Here's just a sample of Spring at Descanso Gardens.










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Mellow Yellow Monday

I hope this counts as being yellow. It's buttery popcorn and butter is yellow so... It's different from my usualy pics but I thought this would be a fun entry. Wish I didn't eat my last bag of popcorn yesterday. :-)



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Today's Flowers

Up at the lake by my house I walked up over to the top of a hill and as I cleared the top of the hill the first picture is what laid out before be, almost a field of lavendar and purple daisies (if they're actually daisies). I thought it was was so pretty especially with the lake as a background.





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Los Angeles Arboretum - The Peacocks

It's been a while since I posted any photos of the beautiful peacocks at the Los Angeles Arboretum. It must be mating season because the fellas were spreading their feathers in all their glory and doing their little mating jiggle. I can take a hundred shots of these birds because I just thing they're absolutely beautiful.

Watery Wednesday #28 - Koi

Guess what time it is? Time for Watery Wednesday. Get out those water shots and join in. Let's get some cyber water in those eyes!




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Mellow Yellow Monday - Leaves

Oops! I browsed for my photos, selected and resized them for the web and it wasn't until just now that I realized my photos today are all leafs. Oh well. :-D It rained for a bit yesterday and this one reminded me of the rain even though I took this last month.


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Monochrome Monday - Leaves

I've been away from my blog for almost a week and I'm so glad I'm back! At least for a little bit. I've been working on a website and this was my first go at linking Pay-pal with buttons and a registration form and using cgi script, etc., etc. but I DID IT! LOL! I'm so proud of me but now... back into my photos!

Needless to say I haven't been out anywhere so I pulled these up from some shots I took last month up at the lake when the rain raised the water level. These were at the water's edge. I know they're not perfect but I like these.




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Watery Wednesday #27

Am I the only one who can't believe it's already Wednesday again? I thought this made for an interesting picture. This is one of the shots I took at Bolsa Chica. It's a wildlife preservation so how did this one plastic chair get in the water and why is it still there?



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My World Tuesday - Birds of Bolsa Chica

Excuse my French but I walked my ass off today. I was already a good walk into the wetlands when I took the photo below. I walked down the path on the right. Now, on the left about midway up the picture do you see the houses waaaaay in the back against the sky. I walked down the path on the right and then waaaay over there. All I keep hearing in my head are these lyrics, "What kind of fool am I?" LOL!

Please correct me if I got any of the names of the birds wrong.





BLUE BILL DUCK - I tried by best to get a good shot of this duck because the first thing I noticed about it was the blue bill. But each one that I saw seemed to know I was trying to take its photo and it would dive under water and turn up even further away from me.


EGRET - I haven't learned the differences between the egrets yet so I'll just identify this as an Egret. It was fun to watch this one tip toeing through the water seemingly stirring up life under the water and then it would duck it's head under the water trying to catch something.


LONG BILLED CURLEW - I could be wrong about this one too but it's the only one I identified that had a beak this long.

BLACK NAPED TERN - Not the best shot but worthy of posting just the same (smile).

I think these are sandpipers.

AMERICAN WIDEON - I was fascinated with this one because of the green around its eyes.


And I'm not sure what this one is either. I thought it only had one leg but when I got closer the other leg came down and it flew off.



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