You'll Be Tired, We Were...

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

If I had a needle and thread,
As fine as I could sew,
I'd sew my true love to my side
And down this creek I'd go.

 Swing and turn, Jubilee,
 Live and learn, Jubilee.* 

We are still moving slowly, but getting back out in the world...

starting with seeing a friend and meeting her new pup.

 
I call this "Smiles With Dog."

After that we headed down to the crossing. You will be tired of our 

trips to Mankins Crossing - especially if I don't figure out how to 

get better photos. But I will never tire of these moments with the 

birds. 

Of course we forgot binoculars (we had not really planned this stop). 

We did see vultures, egrets, swallows, and other birds. It is a 

beautiful place. We need to investigate by boat and/or wading. [For 

heavens sake, we need to bring our binoculars!]

Avoiding the bridge traffic, we investigated as much as we had time 

and energy for. Then we loaded up and headed home singing along with 

the radio.**

Looking downstream from the bridge.

Something is always flying over this spot. We saw egrets, vultures, and swallows.

Vulture

Great Egret

Large dragonfly - perhaps a Widow Skimmer.

Here the dragonfly above trash in the river.

Swallows were nesting under the highway bridge.

Egrets flying and wading.

What appears to be a bank full of invasive elephant ears - Colocasia esculenta

Great Egret just at the bend in Mankins Branch. There are a few crossings of Mankins Branch off County Road 100 not a mile from the crossing.

DH and our constant companion. Someone left a shoe.

I'll bring fire in the winters
You'll send showers in the springs
We'll fly through the falls and summers
with love on our wings

~ Dan Fogelberg, "Longer"

NOTES:

*Old folk/traditional song 

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v_jhm0hMZY

** Longer by Dan Fogelberg,1979 by Full Moon Records and Epic Records 

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1dnsG4Dy8