
for One Word Sunday: closed and Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: gates and fences
Nancy, you’ve put up a challenge I can’t resist today: “Birds.” Since you’ve posted a hummingbird shot, I won’t. Instead, I’ll share a photo of a belted kingfisher that I took several years ago. On my way back from watching some fishing birds, egrets and herons, I happened to look up. There at the end of a bare branch surrounded by green was a bird. I had my telephoto and snapped the picture with no idea what bird it was. For some reason, I had an idea that a kingfisher was much larger, but this little guy looks as if he has enough attitude for any bird of any size.
Nancy’s challenging us to show something edible this week and although I love her choice of berries (a favorite of mine as well), I also love bread. In a world filled with no-carb diets, I crave them. Pasta is another of my choices. I saw these beautiful loaves at a French farmer’s market. They beg for a bit of cheese or some Normandy butter and a lovely glass of red.