On a cold winter day, the river might look deceitfully peaceful.
Beware though… If you get close to the water, and start fiddling with the zipper on your bag, the hungry ducks are expecting something a lot more appetizing than a camera to appear!
Help… I’d better get away from here before I find myself in a scenario resembling The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock… Some of the ducks actually flew up at me; and at the same time doves were beginning to move in from above… I fled!
See more photos of the bridge in my Picture Book
Bridge Over Troubled Water. One of my all-time favourite songs, since 40 years. I wonder how many times I’ve listened to it, and been comforted by it? Still sailing on…
My camera dragged me out for a walk on Monday afternoon because we had such a dramatic sky going. (See more of that in the Picture Book blog.)
Approaching the river, I noticed that some trees had recently been cut down, which offered a new view of the waterfall.
Then I had a closer look at the tree stumps…
Isn’t this one just wonderful? Like a piece of art.
Forsythia
Heather in her post “Sharing Life” yesterday asked three questions:
1. What are your favorite fragrant flowers to pick and gather into your home?
Sorry to say, I cannot have fragrant flowers indoors because I’m allergic. I do have flowering plants indoors, for the joy of the eye - but only the kinds that do not give off much fragrance or pollen.
Begonias and African Violets
in my kitchen window
2. What sounds bring joy to your heart?
Sounds of running water and birds greeting spring after a long, hard winter.
3. Tell me something that you once thought and have now learned differently about.
What comes to mind just now is only the very general statement that when I was young, I thought life would get easier as I got older. It’s a long time since I grew out of that belief.
