SATURDAY - SWANS

Swan & babies (Metro newspaper this week)




Isn't this totally adorable? The babies were too tired to swim, so Momma is giving them a lift.

This photo definitely has the AAAAAH Factor!

Have you noticed with swans how calm everything is on the surface, while the feet are going berserk paddling underneath? Isn't this what we all try to achieve - serenity in the midst of panic? That's me, for sure! Hence swans being this week's subject of choice for me.


Now of course, you are wondering what swans have to do with anything... here are some quotations:

• But calm, white calm, was born into a swan - Elizabeth Coates
• The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. - Heinrich Heine
• The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. - John Milton

And of course swans mate for life...



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Last week for me may have seemed calm and serene - but was actually extremely hectic. I was even too exhausted to celebrate my birthday properly - Peter (Darling Husband) cooked etc ... but I was in bed by 10.00pm.

So apologies to everyone who left a comment on my birthday/Pink Saturday post last week. With all the hoorah, and rush, and teaching Thursday & Friday & Sunday, I rather overdid things and ended up with The Migraine From Hell for several days. So nobody got replied to - or visited, which I truly regret.

So big big apologies for that - I'll try to do better this weekend.

As always, go here to visit Beverly at How Sweet The Sound and to see all the other Pink Saturday posts!