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Two Visitors Waddle By   Leave a comment

Two Visitors Waddle By (04-15-15) — Image by kenne

A Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalist is teaching kids as two mallard ducks waddle by.
Nothing like being outdoors in nature’s classroom.

Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.

 
— Ogden Nash

Pelican On Oceanside Pier   5 comments

Thanksgiving 2012 OceansidePelican On Oceanside Pier — Image by kenne

A wonderful bird is a pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

— Ogden Nash

Holiday Season Flashback #2   5 comments

Christmas '0523 Katelyn art blog.jpgKatelyn Turner, December 21, 2005 — Photo-Artistry by kenne

A girl who is bespectacled

Don’t even get her nectaled

But safety pins and bassinets

Await the girl who fascinets.

— Ogden Nash

Behold The Ducks   3 comments

Christmas 2012Ducks at Christmas (December 29, 2012) Photo-Artistry by kenne

Behold the duck.

It does not cluck.

A cluck it lacks.

It quacks.

It is specially fond

Of a puddle or pond.

When it dines or sups,

It bottoms ups.

— Ogden Nash

Great Tail Grackle   1 comment

Great Tailed Grackle-72.jpgGreat Tail Grackle (Playa del Carman) — Image by kenne

The grackle’s voice is less than mellow,
His heart is black, his eye is yellow,
He bullies more attractive birds
With hoodlum deeds and vulgar words,
And should a human interfere,
Attacks that human in the rear.
I cannot help but deem the grackle
An ornithological debacle. 

— Ogden Nash

Border Ranch Painting   Leave a comment

Willow Springs Ranch-0008 art. II blogPainting by kenne

Crossing The Border 

Senescence begins
And middle age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends. 

— Ogden Nash

Capturing The Moment — “The Duck”   Leave a comment

Northern Shoveler Duck-9636 blog framedNorthern Shoveler Duck Feeding At Whitewater Draw — Image by kenne

The Duck 

Behold the duck
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond.
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups. 

— Ogden Nash

Capturing The Moment — May I Have This Dance? Quack! Quack!   4 comments

Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012

Mallard Ducks On The Colorado River — Images by kenne

Behold the duck 

It does not cluck. 

A cluck it lacks. 

It quacks. 

It is specially fond. 

Of a puddle or pond.

When it dines or sups,

It bottoms ups.

The Duck — Ogden Nash

Capturing The Moment — Pelicans On The Pier   24 comments

Pelicans On Oceanside Pier, Oceanside, Califorina — Images by kenne

The Pelican
By Ogden Nash

A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill will hold more than his belican.

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

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