Black & White & Feathers

For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: black and white. Featured image is an Osprey in flight. A heavy browed crow and two goldfinches above.

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Cute Factor

Hard to beat the goslings, but I think this Blue Jay doing an imitation of “Take my wife, please!” is pretty cute too. For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: cute factor.

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Birds In Black and White

An angry starling, a beady-eyed grackle, a red-wing blackbird, and a robin for Bird Weekly.

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Candid

(Couldn’t resist adding these photos to Cee’s Black and White Challenge: candid shots)

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Close Up

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Closeups or Macros

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Interesting Signs

(Store signs from Stratford, Ontario for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Store Front Signs.)

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Lonely Places

Once offering solacea place to contemplate Now an ominous reminderof solitude imposed. (For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: benches)

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Expressions

Countenance displays trutha smiling pant conveys contentment A ready smile invites a visitspreads a familial warmth A furrowed brow suggests concerna child’s uncertainty during lockdown. Words can offer intentbut expression speaks so much more. (For Cee’s Black & White Photo challenge: Heads or facial features.)

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Thoughts on Gates and Fences

My childhood home was surrounded by fence, bordered by tall cedars – we had a secret to keep. I learned not to trust neighbours. I learned the price of shame. At the back of the yard was a gate that opened onto a field and beyond that a wooded area. There I found serenity, connection, […]

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