Our city has a river running through it. Two in fact. Today was a beautiful sunny day so I took some time to walk around the river near my home.
I sometimes see people riding their bikes down to the river with fishing lines tucked under their arms. Things get left behind.
Wildlife.
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Lovely collection of images Karen. Gorgeous duck and squirrel. Sad fish.
Images 1 & 2: very fall. All those buds nipped by the frost. So much lost potential waiting to be reborn in the spring.
Image 3: Cute. I always take morbid pictures myself when I can find them. In this case, it just LOOKS like a dead fish. This would seem to imply that there’s some fish that will eat a dead-looking fish that is somehow still swimming. 🙂
Image 4: Yeah, lots of that out there. I’ve often pondered a tight macro shot on one of these messes.
Image 5: Fierce color contrasts here. Not to mention balance!
Image 6: Cute awareness. Wish he didn’t blend in quite so well with his background!
Image 7: WOW! What a crowd!
A nice collection of images from your stroll. Love the first two of the branches; the lines and shapes are interesting to say the least. Great work!
thank you!
The two first photos are like from another world. About the third photo i really like the shades and color. Also squirrels are the best.
Stunning Karen!!! I especially like your first two shots!!!! Just gorgeous!!! 🙂 & I love te colour on the duck – very striking!!! 😀 **
the ferns like things look lovely.
Agreed!
How nice to have rivers to walk by with all then nature around them. Lovely photos, Karen. I needed the walk there. 🙂
Very beautiful. I loved the first and the last. It would be so good to walk here. Totally agree with Katie. 🙂
That’s a gorgeous duck, looking a bit cold 🙂
Love The Duck!!
I really like the first image the branches looks so delicate and I like how they seem to go on forever. Nice job.
Thanks folks! 🙂
Now I know, sometime you got right hearted humor 🙂