Friday, July 28, 2023
Letter "D" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 11 and Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's This Week's Prompts are Starts with "D." A Favorite. "D"ark.
"D" for Dark (Tom's choice): Here at right is the picture of The International Dateline that I took from the flight attendants' window on our way home from Sydney, Australia. It was at night, Dark, and my camera did not pick up a good photo. But having a photo of an invisible object is better than not seeing it at all. (Read more here...)
- James' request, "Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures."
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Our Guest
She spends her mornings in our front yard
That's where the shade is in the mornings
Where the shade is in the afternoons
In the afternoons this duck's across the street
She's across the street where the shade is then
She drinks sprinkler water from the street
I worry about the water in the street
Has washed fertilizer from the soil
Fertilizer from the soil tastes not good
She drinks it anyway that's all she's got
All she's got but needs it for her eggs
She'll hatch them in a shadow box nest
Her chicks after they're born will leave the nest
She'll spend her mornings in our front yard again
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( Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved)
(I originally posted this poem here using the Duplex poetry form. Same words.)
Starts with 'D': Duck starts with "D". One Muscovy Duck hen has left her flock along running water stream to make a nest up here in our neighbor's second story shadow box above their garage.
I don't know if she'll try for 14 to 18 baby ducks to hatch or not. The neighbor said there are only two eggs, that was three, but he found a third smashed on the pavement below.
Do you know the incubation period for Muscovy Duck eggs is 35 days instead of all other ducks whose are about 28? Muscovy duck's eggs are also larger.
A Favorite: A 1984 Dodge 600 Convertible. One like this was my play car but it had a sad ending. I had it for several years, I bought it used, about six or eight years old, from the local dealers used car lot, and paid six or eight hundred dollars for it. It was in fairly low mileage and in good condition and had the 4-cylinder engine, with the Mitsubishi-built 2.6 L 4-cylinder which was available as an option. We drove it a lot, kind of all over the eastern third of Texas.
My car ended in repair shop, I'd taken it in for a leaking water pump and an overdue timing belt replacement. All done, the mechanic took it out for the evening. Drunk, coming home he totaled it out. He was jailed and didn't know us. The next morning I had a call seeing if my car was still own by me or was it stolen. The driver, the mechanic, was suspected of stealing it.
"D" for Dark (Tom's choice): Here at right is the picture of The International Dateline that I took from the flight attendants' window on our way home from Sydney, Australia. It was at night, Dark, and my camera did not pick up a good photo. But having a photo of an invisible object is better than not seeing it at all. (Read more here...) (Oh yes, the attendants had the exact time that we would be crossing so finding it was no problem, it was right below. Dah.)
Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures: The white glob in the window is an unwanted Reflection.
I was in the waiting room in my doctor's office taking a picture of I-10 feeder road, west out of Houston across the pond and didn't know of the glob until later. The water reflection was not so hot either because of ripples caused by the breeze.
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The Fine Print:
- [Click on some pictures for larger, click it again for extra-large.]
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
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Labels: Animals, Birds, Cars, Friday's Weekend Roundup 11, Jim's Life, Reflections
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...the Muscovy DUCK hen is a busy lady.
...I remember the 1984 DODGE 600 Convertible.
...invisible objects are DIFFICULT to photograph in the DARK, good job.
Thanks Jim for stopping by, stay cool.
...I remember the 1984 DODGE 600 Convertible.
...invisible objects are DIFFICULT to photograph in the DARK, good job.
Thanks Jim for stopping by, stay cool.
It's nice you have the duck to watch. That convertible is really nice! I hope you have a wonderful week!
Hi Jim, I try to imagine how the duck would feel if she had a pond to swim in! I enjoyed your story about her. I only remember one time crossing the international date line, we were on a trip to So. Korea. I don't remember our stewardess talking about it though. Thank you for visiting my blog and have a good week!
Dawn
Dawn
Jim, Thanks for the link to your interesting "Letter D" blog and the landlocked Muscovy Duck.. That was a sad story about your Dodge convertible. I'll bet that after the timing belt was replaced it would have had another 100K miles to put on the odometer. My pet car was a 1937 Ford 4-door sedan (blue with white wall tires) which my Dad bought new and transferred to me when I turned 17 in 1952. It got about 50 miles per quart of oil and went through a fuel pump every few months. It spewed blue smike and my buddies called me the mosquito exterminator-- I always carried two rebuilt spare fuel pumps along with several 5 gallon cans of recycled oil. It lasted about 4 more years until I finished college.
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