Wild Bird Wednesday

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Wild Bird Wednesday # 56

 

I will start out by apologizing for the poor quality of these pictures  ... it was a gray and glaring day which made everything too bright for the camera.  But, that said, I will tell the story of the OCD Duckling. 

As I was working on the landing one morning  the Duck Family that hangs by my feeders came by ... a large group of Mom and Ducklings.  At this age they all look the same ... you can't tell Mom from the babies and you can't tell the boys from the girls.   Like all siblings there was some quarreling and playing, but there was one little one (I'll say he's a boy, just because ...) who was bent on getting himself clean.  I called him the OCD Duckling ...

End ... Round One

End ... Round Two

End ... Round Three

End ... Round Four

End ... Round Five

End ... Round Six

Ahhh ... Done at last

Ehhh ... not quite

One last spot ...

And, oh yea, forgot this one ...

Finally ...  and that is when I left.  Don't know if there was more, but this had to be the cleanest duck on the lake.  OCD is not easy ...

Mandarin Orange Monday

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  I am working on a picture book for my friend ... her Birthday is coming up and I am gathering pictures from our trip to Nebraska.  In the process, I ran across some of the wonderful sunsets we saw and they spoke "Orange" to me.  So today I will give you some Nebraska SunScapes ...

Note that there are flocks of Sandhill Cranes flying through some of the pictures ... they weren't orange, but they were a site to see ....

 

 

Smile It's Friday

My Moms says I is Mooning ... what's Mooning?  Would somebody out there tells me, what Moonings is.  I won't know how to doos it again if I don't know what it is.  Huumans can be very confusing sometimes!

Feline Friday

Feline Friday #49
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Best Shredder on the Market ...

Photo Art Friday

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Nothing has changed for me.  I have missed our weekly challenges and struggled with finding other ways to express some creativity.  But, as soon as you came back "Photo Art Friday", I over reacted as always.  I must have made twenty pictures of flowers and then the hard part became paring them down to a reasonable selection.   I'm not saying they are good, but what I am saying is, I had a ball ... so glad you are back, Bonnie !

 

 

 Cone Flower ...

 

 

Calla Lily

 

A Rose in a Vase ...

 

 

The flower of the Yucca Plant

 

The Tulip

 

The Gooseneck Loosestrife

 

 

 

The last is something I have done for a long time.  I always called it my flower art.  I take a flower picture and put it through one of the distort filters, then develop the result into a picture.  I will often see something familiar like a face or an animal, but this time I used the fruit of my Hibiscus plant and just turned it into an abstract.

 

I used pdpa textures on each of these, in some cases more than one and then finished it with different filters.  Three of them I used PicMonkey and one I used Be Funky.   This was great fun ... I'm looking forward to meeting up with old friends and drooling over their talent.