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For the appreciation of the glorious beauty of nature and in unexpected places.
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Oh my word! Actually, I'd worry about him getting pecked to death by the other pigeons!
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I love the garden images , well done.

Voronwë I love the pictures of the falls. I have missed snow shoeing this year but it will be there next year.

Well, I guess the pigeon has many meals each day as the crumbs fall.
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Some of my fav pics from Florida:

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Those are so pretty! I'm seriously jonesing for the beach. :neutral:
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I love all the flowering trees where I live. A few weeks ago I took the little boy that I work with on a walk down the street so we could both photograph the cherry blossoms:

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Oh, those are beautiful pics of the blossoms!! :)
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Oooh, those are pretty!

Here are some I've taken recently:

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Nice flowers, Lali!
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Thanks! :)
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Nice Lali, flowers! :upsidedown:
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:rofl:
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Voronwë's gone nonverbal. What he meant to say was "flowers Lali nice."

Like my boys when they were 2 or so—they had this hand-me-down blue sweater they really liked and both wore, and they always called it "pretty blue sweater nice."
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One of two fawns in our yard this morning, with their momma:
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Running away from the scawy two-legged animal:
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The other fawn, running through the grass:
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The momma, on the other side of the neighbor's fence:
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A bird in a tree:
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Some flowers in the yard:
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Voronwë, what a beautiful place you live in!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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Nice!!

My favorite pic from my India trip:

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Very cool image, Mahima.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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Yes, very cool! :)

Voronwë, the fawns are cute!

Yesterday afternoon I looked out in the backyard to see 2 squirrels, several birds, a bunny, and a chipmunk. I looked at the dog; she looked at me. She whined. I let her out, knowing she never catches anything, but she had fun chasing them all off. The chipmunk played hide and seek around the trunk of the maple tree and chittered at her.
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Love the pictures of the fawns, V. Not what I picture when I think of California!

We have squirrels that pass by our backyard, not to mention urban foxes :(

The squirrels used to drive me nuts (!) and they were constantly digging in the flowerbeds and tubs, planting the peanuts that some nice neightbour keeps putting out for them. I was forever pulling up peanut seedlings from my hanging baskets, etc. Now we have a cat :D Problem solved....although he now digs in my flowerbeds if I don't catch him in time!!!!
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Beautiful pictures all. Love the flowers and blossoms and the deer and fawns. We have deer and other animals visiting. One night I was out in early April around 2:00a.m. when the moon came up and a coyote let out a howl followed by two others that were on a hill about 1/2 mile away from our home. That really gave me a fright that night as I wasn't expecting to hear that!
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That's really cool, AJ! And may I say it's lovely, as always, to see you around here again.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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