Lucky Ducks

Today Remy's baseball team had practice at the Towne Lake fields.
And I desperately wished I had my camera.

I did have my iPhone, so I snapped a few photos.








The Spring weather is beautiful in North Texas right now.
Sunny, windy, not too hot.








"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." -- actor Michael Caine

Sanctuary

Sanctuary: A consecrated place; a place of refuge and protection.

Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary on the edge of Asheville is such a place. A determined group of nature lovers fought to keep this ten acres at one end of a suburban lake free from development and this upland marsh now provides a quiet place for contemplation of nature and, perhaps, the meaning of life. And ducks.

It's a place I often visit when I'm in Asheville with a spare half hour or so -- a little shot of nature and serenity just off a busy thoroughfare. And I do enjoy watching the ducks, especially these Muscovies with their red-wattled faces and variegated plumage

Sanctuary, indeed, for man and beast alike.