Of Ducks and Puddles....

"Being born in a duck yard doesn't matter if...you are hatched from a swan's egg."

As a duck takes to water....as easy as duck soup...like a sitting duck...like water off a duck's back...get your ducks in a row...no matter how you see it... if it looks like a duck... if it quacks like a duck.....these little fellows really QUACK me up! What advice they have to offer in their scratching and their squabbles! "Always behave like a duck...keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath!" "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, it's bottoms up!" What greater simple joy than a summer afternoon spent with a loaf of day old bread, a camera, a rowdy gaggle and a sense of humor? (In the midst of all that squawking must be some solid advice!)