On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:57:10 -0800 (PST), Kalmia
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>On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:45:18 PM UTC-5, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:13:21 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>snip The one photo I never got
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>> but is burned in my mind is those birds coming in for a landing with
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>> the mist swirling on the water.
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>That's the kind of mind-photo you want to concentrate on if you are being put under for surgery. Magic moment, right?
>Mine involves a gang of female elk emerging from the woods high up in Utah. Another, swans gliding in the mist of a foggy evening just off a bike path. You could almost hear the Tchaikovsky........

Oh, the swans gliding in the mist on mirror-still water. . . That's
another lovely one. I have a similar memory of a group of female elk
emerging from the woods into a meadow where two bulls are fighting.
It's so quiet that you distinctly hear the antlers hitting each other.
Like a baseball bat hitting a ball.
There are really some wonderful sights out here.
Janet US