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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Nov 9 8:02am | Replies (2396)
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@sueinmn, and all... Sue, I think it'd be fun to learn to crop and enhance your wonderful photos, but for me they're perfection in action!

Interestingly, I thought they were a different kind of Pelican than we have in Florida, the brown pelican. All the brown pelicans I've seen here, I'm not an expert at all, are actually brown. I wouldn't have thought yours are brown... They are beautiful. My fiancé loved pelicans and had an Audobon print, huge...My son loves it and has it in his living room! Personally, I love the blue heron, or your magnificent tricolor. He's lovely and does appear to be on guard. Good Daddy Heron!

You know how to enjoy this crazy life we have. I've learned a bunch from you about a part of the US I've never visited to my dismay. Is your breathing improved in the desert? Or have they imported so many plants and trees they added the pollen we experience in our home states? And did you find some good shells? I loved shelling and walking on the beach especially early morning. Sounds like a great day with good friends...

Enjoy and be blessed...Elizabeth.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | Mar 7 12:03pm

Hello Elizabeth - I actually live in semi-desert - a huge agricultural zone, and have been here so long I react to the tree pollen like a native. Grasses and other plants are much less problematic though, and a day in the salt air on the beach is heaven.
My friend was shelling for her art projects, but I already own a lifetime's worth and avoid collecting more - I just help her. One thing we do on the beach is cleanup - especially all the plastics that are so devastating to sea turtles and other marine life. We pick up huge trash bags from the ranger, fill them and return to a dumpster as we leave. Once in a while we bring a pickup down there, and fill the bed with stuff too big for our bags. And the local beach bums turn the large flotsam (think old buoys and ballast tanks) that float ashore in the storms in to art displays above the high tide line.
The pelicans are Eastern Brown Pelicans - and a little cropping and color balancing did make them better. I couldn't improve Papa Heron though.
Sue

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