Nimavenl - Nicole's Random Ramblings

This week's Photo Challenge theme is Birds and Ducks. And other bird-like / duck-like animals, if I spot any this weekend. Yesterday I posted several Blurry Birdwatching Photos . Today I figured the non-blurry birdwatching photos might as well be the next photos for the Challenge. So: Enjoy the first photo! Yummm... Bread! And after the first photo come more photos... One black bird came to say "hey, you." Just sat there for a while, then picked a piece and left. Hey, You Then came the gulls. Lots of them too, or perhaps the same three just kept on coming back. It's hard to tell, sometimes. Incoming... Thinking... Got a piece... Got two pieces... I played around with the individual photos a bit. The birds were in the shade, however the tree behind them was in the sunshine. The two photos below show that sunshine very clearly. Posing... Caught you! And then the ducks...Of course the ducks didn't come to my balcony (no...

When you can't go outside, invite nature in, instead... ... And go birdwatching on your own balcony! My ankle still hurts, which makes going outside and enjoying nature a bit of a challenge... One that hurts. Especially seeing how lovely today was! So if I can't go out and enjoy nature, then nature can come visit me instead! Put a few pieces of bread out on the balcony hoping to attract a few of the birds that live and play around here. They visit occasionally, however tend to fly off again as soon as they see movement. Which meant that today I sat very still, hoping they'd stay long enough for me to take a few photos. Many of the images turned out blurry or unclear, either because the birds were too fast or I was too slow. A bit of both, if you ask me. The blurry photos look something like this...   There's something about those blurry images that makes me smile... Birds being birds, perhaps. I'll show some of the non-blurry images in the ...

Today's Random Act of Wildness: Watching the birds soaring through the sky. I waited for the rain to appear today as I was rather looking forward to splashing through puddles. Sadly, no such luck. It was quite windy though, which made going for a walk a lot of fun. Spotted many different birds out enjoying the windy weather and even got a glimpse of a beautiful (and huge!) moon. The birds looked like they were enjoying themselves a great deal - seeing them surfing the winds always makes me wish I could fly, too. Although... Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~ Henry David Thoreau It's probably a good thing we can't fly. If humans could fly without the aid of technology, we would no doubt 'conquer' even more of our beautiful planet and turn even the wildest and most inaccessible places into wastelands filled with garbage. We've already caused so much damage to the parts of the planet we can reach, all in the name of pr...

It took me a while to decide what "Photo Challenge" to go for this week. I wanted to choose my own topic this week, not one I found online. While I considered several topics such as sidewalk shots, walls, For Sale signs, trees, benches, cloud pics, water and animals, in the end I decided to go with Bridges. Although I did see lots and lots of animals - real and decorative - so that might be next week's topic. I'll think about that some more... Heck, I've got time to choose and repeat / re-visit lots of challenges, it's my party challenge after all! Functional yet decorative, bridges are awesome. I've taken photos of bridges before and have written about why I like bridges. In a nutshell, they connect worlds (there, saved you the trouble of clicking on that link!); worlds above and worlds below as well as worlds on either side of the bridge. Here's the first Bridge photo, will add more photos later today. Enjoy!   Photo Challenge: Bridge #1 | ...

Just had to share this photo as I love the pic! Fly Away... | Nimavenl