This week was filled with smiles, so filled in fact that I’m having trouble finding time to process all the photos to share with you. So how about I show you just a couple, a teaser of sorts, to keep your interest for a few more days.
The maple trees were turning.
I traveled north on Wednesday, stopping at the Shiawasee Nature Preserve on the way to my final destination. I took you for a walk there a year ago, this week, unlike that walk, the colors haven’t peaked but I saw lots of really neat things.
I startled ducks wherever I walked.
Including pelicans. Did you know there are pelicans in Michigan? Me neither! But there they were. I felt lucky to have seen them, I’m sure they’re just passing through.
See all those white birds back there? Pelicans. And notice the blue heron down on the left bottom? Busy place.
Anyway, the four hours I spent there early on Wednesday morning made me smile. A lot. I will share more of this magical place as soon as I can finish looking through the more than 800 photos I took.
Avoiding the noisy human.
Change Is Hard 
September 20, 2020 at 2:05 pm
Wowsah! Pelicans that far north. No wonder you were smiling.
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September 23, 2020 at 4:39 pm
Smiling pretty wide, too.
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September 20, 2020 at 7:24 pm
Sounds nice. Looking forward to seeing the photos! I hope some closeups of pelicans 😉
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September 23, 2020 at 4:40 pm
I did post a few cropped, really really cropped, images of the pelicans in the next post.
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September 23, 2020 at 6:06 pm
I did see a post with some pelicans and cranes and other critters. I may need to go back and take another look 🙂
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September 21, 2020 at 8:23 am
All good reasons to smile.
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September 23, 2020 at 4:40 pm
Certainly were.
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September 21, 2020 at 9:55 am
Eight hundred photos?? Oh my, I don’t envy you the task of going through them all. Still, I have to smile at your “sneak-peek” here. Our maples are far from turning, and I’ve never seen a pelican or a heron in my area!
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September 23, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Hmmm…I’d think herons at least would be around you somewhere. I have many photos that are going to end up in the trash…trying to capture those moving birds…but a few that made the cut.
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