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Homo sapiens or Cygnus buccinator, no matter the species newborns are universally considered cute and adorable . . . even I was cute once back when dinosaurs roamed the earth 😊.
This afternoon I was blessed paddling my canoe around Fish Lake photographing Mr. & Mrs. Trumpeter and their three new signets.
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come
Spent part of the afternoon canoeing Fish Lake visiting a family with a new set of triplets; watching a guy in tuxedo attire putting on a display trying to impress an equally well-dressed gal; and, back on shore, listening to a mother calling her kids from a high-rise . . . ???
In Jungle Book Mogli lingo that translates into three Trumpeter Swan signets hatching out; a male loon strutting his stuff for his girlfriend; and a mother spruce grouse perched in a tree calling her scattered clutch back together 😊
Here’s a few pics of what mine was to savor watching His feathered creatures loving living life in the Last Frontier.
I M Blessed . . . May U B 2
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
This picture was why I stood, transfixed in total awe, out on our deck at 1 AM this morning . . . the majestic Land of the Midnight Sun.
I M Blessed . . . May U B 2
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
A spruce hen and her chick perched safely above me . . . fresh imprints revealing a predator/prey pursuit . . . last fall’s bull moose antler scrapes . . . each a page in Mother Nature’s cycle of life that graced today’s wilderness wanderings.
“For every creature of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills“. – Psalm 50:10
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
Last Frontier’s wildlife portrays Mother Nature’s calm and chaos . . . strength and stamina . . . beauty and barbarity. The cow moose scars are mostly likely from a foiled grizzly attack.
“All creatures great and small. The Lord God made them all”. – James Herriot
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
John Muir described my Greatland front yard with 5 words . . . “Nature – the manuscripts of God”
I M Blessed . . . May U B 2
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
“A stormy day on the mountain beats a sunny day at the beach” . . . a touch of dementia? . . . perhaps, but hold those Florida Retirement Community flyers 😊. . . enjoyed dodging raindrops hiking up Castle Mountain today.
I M Blessed . . . May U B 2
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
Welcome Back Flowers is the sequel to Farewell Flowers posted prior to leaving the Smoky Mountains forests for the Alaskan wilderness last month. Snow-birding between these two awesome corners of creation provides ‘seasonal jet-lag’ . . . as Spring morphs into Summer in the Smokies, it’s just beginning to emerge from Winter’s grip in the Last Frontier. Consequently, I’m blessed to experience Spring’s splendor twice each year . . . God is good!
Here’s a few welcome bouquet blooms Mother Nature treated me with hiking Castle Mountain’s boonies today.
I M Blessed . . . May U B 2
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
Were that life could be a continual mountaintop experience. Reality is most is lived in the valleys where its been said you’re either in the midst of a storm, coming out of one, or one lies ahead on your journey.
But take heart . . . just as rainbows appear after the storm, each storm cloud will run out of rain, and calm will follow the fury.
‘He calms the storm, so that its waves are still”. -Psalm 107:29
Be Blessed and . . .
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Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
Socrates once wrote, “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature“.
Centuries later someone penned, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”.
This morning His creationscape left my soul content . . rich . . . breathless.
I M blessed . . . May U B 2
“O Lord, our lord, your greatness is seen in all the earth”. – Psalm 8:1
Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!
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