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For today's issue of Picture to Ponder, I'm moved to share a recent red-winged blackbird photo from Green Cay Wetlands. It's the photograph that "popped" out as the one wanting to be featured, while I was working on creating videos. It also became the final slide, with data, on the one I created with me talking on the boardwalk in Green Cay Wetlands.
In the completed video I also incorporated a slideshow of photographs from Green Cay, demonstrating the possibility of respite from Nature photos. You can see it on the Picture to Ponder testimonials page. Notice also, that I've now created this as a page for people to subscribe to Picture to Ponder.
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If you enjoy the bird and would like to hear his voice, plus those of moorhens and limpkins in the background, I put another short (one-minute) video (2 red-winged blackbirds) up of two blackbirds, then one. It's fun to watch the single bird's body swell as he "chatters" as you come to the end of the video.
Today's Photo -
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Red-winged blackbird on the railing at Green Cay Wetlands in Boynton Beach, FL -
Let's view him as a symbol calling greetings and congratulations to all the upcoming Graduates about to embark on the next stages of their lives.
Today's Photo Story -
Today's red-winged blackbird is also a way of my acknowledging my beautiful granddaughter Kaitlyn's graduation from High School this week.
Seven years ago, when she was 11, she used my camera and got a wonderful picture of a blackbird in Wakodahatchee Wetlands. It seemed to be years before one stayed still long enough for me to get a non-blurry picture. For that photo and others, see Kaitlyn's Photos. You can click on any one of the images for an enlargement and then use the arrows to continue viewing.
Self-Reflecting Queries -
As in life, today's bird, could be labeled, or viewed, in many different ways. Because of the usual, past "elusiveness" of the red-winged blackbirds I've encountered, I am enjoying seeing and labeling this picture as a symbol of celebration and acknowledgment.
I invite you to look into your life for some of the triggers and memories that come up for you. Which are causes for celebration? Are there any which bring up negative memories that you can now put a different "spin" on?
I also invite you to look around you in your environment to pick something, natural or otherwise, that you can deem a reminder for celebrating.
Happy day/night/week.
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