“A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.” – Robert Englund
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“Be a peliCAN, not a peliCAN’T.”– Unknown
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“A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But I’m damned if I see how the helican.” – Dixon Lanier Merritt
Thanks to Deb Maluk for allowing me to share her beautiful photos.
“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Great Big Canvas
“We are never alone We are all wolves Howling to the same moon.”― Atticus Poetry, Atticus
Moonlight Wolf Mates – Collin Bogle – iCanvas
“Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.”― Donna Lynn Hope
Leslie Kirchner
“That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.”― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Collin Bogle – Etsy UK
“A howl is as infectious to a wolf as a yawn is to a human.”― Kevin Ansbro
Kromschroeder – Moondancers – Brians Gallery
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ~ Unknown
“Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it’s the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.” ~ Liu Xiaobo
Dawn Gemme – ArtPal
“I’m not sure I like the idea of polar bears under a palm tree.” ~ Lenny Henry
Emily Olson
“I’d rather write about polar bears than people.” ~ Mary Oliver
Jeff Tift – Art.com
“Polar bears can swim 100 miles. They aren’t like us. We might be ‘stranded’ on an ice floe if there’s no land nearby, and we had no helicopter and no jet ski. We might be in trouble, but they’re polar bears, and they can live in icy cold water by design. They love it.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
Naomi Jenkin Art
“In the kingdom of ice, the polar bear reigns supreme.” ~ Unknown
Pinterest
“Chasing dreams on the glacier.” ~ Unknown
The Art of Michael Pape
“Captivated by the beauty of polar bears in the wild.” ~ Unknown
“I have family in Tanzania. I can’t even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.”
“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It’s fascinating. You come into a room they’ve been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.” ― Julie Klam
@BestinDogs on X
“Puppies are God’s idea of a perfect workout program.” ― Stephen King, Laurie
@BestinDogs on X
“I just need a dozen puppy kisses.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner
This was the flying pig Harvey and I made from an empty propane canister and scrap metal. He hung from a tree over the driveway looking down as visitors drove up to see us.
“You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.” ~ William J. Clinton
Adobe Stock – WBeIlcHN8KqthzGPRnBiAUe0rx
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
Amazon.ca
“Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn’t work, and it annoys the pig. “ ~ Judy Sheindlin
Displate
“People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them.” ― Isabella Tree, Wilding
Great Big Canvas
“I’m very proud to be called a pig, it stands for pride, integrity and guts.” ~ Ronald Reagan.
Print – Jeremy Norton Artist – Pinterest
“Who can’t like pigs? They’re wonderful creatures! I’ve always liked pigs.” ~ Alexander McCall Smith
Sunny Pig – Cari Humphry
“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When Brian and I are walking to the gym at 0-dark-30 each morning, I’m thrilled by all the bird calls I have never heard before.
I listen and appreciate, but can’t see the birds doing the calling. There are at least 5 different birds calling each morning. I realize I could probably try to record the calls, but that would mean a distraction from my watching the uneven ground beneath my feet threatening to toss me on my head at any given moment. I can glance up and around quickly for the same reason, but can’t see them to even think about trying to identify them.
I’m a lazy, but appreciative bird lover, and it’s wonderful to hear different calls than I have ever heard in the states. Brian is concentrating on getting to the gym as soon as it opens, plus monitoring me to make sure I’m steady on my feet, am watching where I’m stepping, not falling on my head to and from the gym, not getting distracted – so he’s no help.
I think it would be GREAT if, when I hear one of the wonderful calls, I can say, “Oh, listen to that!” and the bird in question would step out on the branch, or, better yet, fly down close to us, throw his wings out, and say, “This is me!” so I can thank him properly.
I don’t really need to know what some bird-ologist named him – the “wooly headed, wide-mouthed, whapadoo,” or even be able to critically recognize him or his call when I next see him.
I just want to appreciate the beauty of the sound, and smile at the bird, letting him know I think he’s special.
“If elephants didn’t exist, you couldn’t invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.”
― Lyall Watson
Gentle Giants – The Sketch & Doodle Club
“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant – the only harmless great thing.”
― John Donne
IAWS – Couldn’t Find Wrapper
“They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.”
― Robert McCammon, Boy’s Life
Ubuy – Phillippines – Sechers – Animal Canvas Wall Art
“Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There’s bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.”
― Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant
Swapnil Nevgi Fine Art – Big Brother
“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
“In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” – English Proverb
Full Bloom Club
“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
Pinterest – Michael… can’t read the signature
“Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.” -Missy Dizick
Pixabay
“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.” – Cleveland Amory
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“Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, “I’ll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?” – Bette Midler
This sweet guy was in the ginormous tree outside my bedroom window. When I say ‘ginormous,’ it’s not much of an exaggeration. My condo is on the 5th floor of the building, and the tree goes up from here!
I zoomed using the camera on my phone, so the picture is not terrific, but he really made me smile. I hope that he makes his home in this tree and comes often.
Otherwise, there are several cats that come into the lobby area of the building, one dog that I’ve only seen once, the sneezing frog that we seem to step over on the way to the gym, and a cute pair of snails in the grass beside a dormitory we pass on the way to the gym. 😁
Amber is 95+ pounds of exuberant yellow lab. She is still shedding all over the place like it’s the middle of summer.
She cavorts around in the cold, absolutely loving it, but wanting to come in and warm up shortly after going out. She has trained me and my husband to let her in and out at her will. We are a bit reluctant to get up out of our chairs at times, but she’s reasonably patient with our efforts.
With the snow coming down now won’t deter her from wanting to go in and out. I have to meet her at the door with a large towel to wipe her down and clean her sweet paws before allowing her to come in – unless she bowls me over first… :0) I now have a towel at the front door and another on the door to our garage.
I guess I should put this in the category of ‘trying-to-move-more,’ because I certainly get my exercise on days like this.
“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Nasreen Lyana-Pinterest
“You can not look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.” — Jane Pauley
voowow.com – I. WANT. THIS. QUILT! :0)
“A cat purring on your lap is more healing than any drug in the world, as the vibrations you are receiving are of pure love and contentment.” — St. Francis of Assisi
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