Tuesday, July 14, 2015

An ode to my breakfast guests..



There was a dove
and a parrot
Who arrived together
to have it
A breakfast
 of seed
Shared peacefully
indeed
Was better than 
eating a carrot..    
Grace Forde.. with apologies :)

Happy Tuesday, take care and stay safe...p.s. if I made you smile, my work is done :)p.p.s. and tres important, Happy Bastille Day celebrations
mes amis français, enjoy...


36 comments:

  1. Oh, yes!! I am smiling and it is just what I needed this morning!! Thank you for the grins and giggles and what a great start for my new week, Grace!! Beautiful captures of lovely, colorful birds and the perfect words indeed!! Hope you have a great week, too!!!

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  2. I too have a big grin now, Grace!

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  3. You did indeed make me smile. Great little poem to go with two gorgeous photos. You are so lucky to have those simply amazing rainbow-colored lorikeets visiting you. That dove is kind of unique too. It's a different branch of the breed than the ones we have here.

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  4. Wonderful to see these characters together in harmony. The lorikeet colours seem to highlight the more subdued veauty of the dove.

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  5. Birds of a feather flock together.
    But if you don't feed them
    They will eat all your heather...

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  6. What a curious dove! It seems to have guinea fowl feathers in its neck.

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  7. I smiled, indeed. Your shots are so sharp!

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  8. also smiled, and enjoyed seeing these two birds together, I doubt if they would normally be so close and freindly.

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  9. Fab pictures, what amazing colours...

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  10. Colorful little friend you have there.

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  11. Lovely sharp images and a lovely limerick too!!

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  12. What a wonderful picture. you need to frame that first one!...Janey

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  13. They are so beautiful! And the colors are brilliant...

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  14. At first I thought this was Photoshopped. Then I realized this is the wonderful contrast in your fauna. Spectacular.

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  15. There is a great message in this image Grace.

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  16. Wonderful to have such colourful birds in your garden! As for your poetry, probably the least said the better! Mind you, what else goes with parrot? Tarot? I think not!

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  17. Nice couple, Grace !
    I want the parrot :))

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  18. Nice try Grace! I wouldn't have imagined a parrot and a dove would sit side by side. I have lots of doves "living" in my lemon tree.

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  19. You definitively made me smile, Grace, thank you :-) Beautiful parrot!

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  20. How I love the birds you photograph and show us. Love this pairing!

    Caged Bird
    BY MAYA ANGELOU
    A free bird leaps
    on the back of the wind
    and floats downstream
    till the current ends
    and dips his wing
    in the orange sun rays
    and dares to claim the sky.

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  21. What a contrast between these two!

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  22. oh how lovely. Beautiful photos Grace, the detail is amazing.

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  23. They're both beautiful! I do love birds of all kinds....

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  24. Smiles all around! One bird so elegant, the other so brash.

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  25. Definitely different but both pretty in their own ways.

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  26. They make such a nice couple!
    We had a marvelous Bastille day - firework at the Loire!

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  27. I have not visited in quite a while. Your photos are still the most inspiring.

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  28. I have not visited in quite a while. Your photos are still the most inspiring.

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  29. How wonderful colorful parrot.

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