This content couple found the waters of Ridley Brook a comfortable haven until another male put out the challenge!
I’ve been watching this pair for about a week from my balcony, both in the morning and as the sun set. I’ve concluded that ducks really don’t have much to do, yet seem perfectly content in their simple duck life.
They seemed to take a liking to this shallow pool, which was deep enough for them to float, yet shallow enough to use their feet as feet instead of paddles. The pair would spend hours “walking” about, oblivious to me and my camera, doing much of nothing as far as I could perceive, although the male spent an inordinate amount of time preening.
Then one evening as I was cooking my dinner I heard this quaking commotion off in the distance. I stepped out onto the balcony just in time to see three ducks flying low like stealth fighter planes for the entire visible length of the brook. The happy male Mallard had some competition. They never returned, so I guess I’ll never know which one won.
There’s little point to my story except that if one has to live in Philadelphia, having view of a little brook makes life a bit more interesting. I have always been attached to water, about of any kind, like a . . . well I’m not going to repeat myself.
The Philly Five Day Forecast
It was a good weekend not to travel. Of course Monday through Friday we had perfect Spring weather along the Eastern Seaboard (when I was spending 10 hours a day with my client). The rain hit Saturday making it a good weekend to catch-up with all those things one falls behind on. I’m moving the corrupted carbonboy.com site to a fast new server next week, and I will be starting fresh. All the old post and pages will be retired to carbonboy.net.
I did find one refreshing video on the web this week – one from the inspiring TED Series. I highly recommend you take a spare twenty minutes of your time to watch it: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
Now Brené Brown is someone that I never heard of until now. Her Blog is a bit to fluffy for my taste; clearly geared for the contemporary career woman. But I appreciated the depth to her messages.
