Posted on 09/10/2007 12:25:40 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
We used to call these Louisiana Herons, it brought to mind dark, cypress shaded sloughs, spicy crawdads boiling in a pot, and home made, foot stomping, butt kicking music. NOLA ain't all of Louisiana! Now, we are supposed to call them Tricolor Herons.
I think I’ve seen them in Florida as well. 3 feet tall or so?
You’re thinking of the Great Blue Heron. It can get confusing, there is the Great Blue, the Tricolor, and the Little Blue Heron. The Tricolor and the Little Blue are more into hunting crabs than chasing fish, the Great Blue even eats small gators. They hunt at different levels of the food chain. A Great Blue will tolerate a Tricolor or Little Blue around, but chase off a Great Egret that is hunting the same fish it is. Things can get even more confused when a Great Blue mates with a Great Egret, but that seems to be mostly a South Florida thing, along with hanging chads.
The Great Blue Heron is a little lighter, almost greyish. I really think I’ve seen Tricolors in S. Florida. In fact, I think one is in a stream behind my workplace. If I can pry the digital camera away from the wife I’ll try to get a photo.
Tell the Lady, if you don’t use it you’re gonna lose it, LOL.
Really, as cheap as decent digital cameras have become, just get one for yourself. We have Tricolors all over the place, as well as Little Blues and Great Blues, and all kinds of other critters, just slow down and pay more attention. God never intended Florida, for people in a hurry!
Good pictures! We have Great Blue Herons around here. They live in the runoff ponds and sometimes eat people’s goldfish from their water features.
In marriage the person that cares the most wins the point over time. I’ve got the TV remote, she’s got the camera, I’m not allowed to ask my two year old to pull my finger if I’m gassy, and we still haven’t figured out if the ceiling fan should be on or off at night. She’s getting smart though . . . she tried a new argument yesterday on the ceiling fan . . . that fans are cheaper than air conditioning and we could raise the temperature a degree or two at night if we had the fan on. She may win this one. This is the first time she’s had to resort to logic in an argument.
“We have Great Blue Herons around here”.
I know, but you mentioned them in your comments.
We have snowy egrets, too.
“I’ve got the TV remote, she’s got the camera”.
Would you really not allow your wife the things she cares about and you don’t? Would you really leave your wife? What is CATV?
“Would you really not allow your wife the things she cares about and you don’t”?
Well, you’ve got me laughing anyway. I’ll answer as a Christian. A wife is obligated to obey her husband, the husband is obligated to love the wife (not in the modern romantic love sense, but in a Christian sense of self-sacrifice and self-control). The obligation of the wife to obey does not create an obligation on the part of the husband to micromanage, or to dictate to the wife without listening or consideration, and the duty to love means that the husband should listen and should consider.
1 Peter 3:1-7
Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansingher by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Well, Hell, Boy, my ex is a pillar of her church! If I run into any of those churchy folks in Walmart, they look at me as though I was the antichrist! I was married, and faithful, for 26 years, 26 damned horny years, she had more damn excuses not to grab my ass and love me than Carter has names for Liver Pills. Not long ago, before my health failed, I had a younger girl friend out here, my ex went ballistic, told me I was living in sin, and, I told her, “Oh, well, one day soon I’m gonna die, and now I will die with the memory of making love to a woman, who really gives a shit”!
Nah, the church ladies are wrong about you being like the anti-christ. He would have got more action for those 26 years . . . ; )
Fort Pickens pier used to have a mascot, a blue heron that had a leg amputated after it became entangled in a net. Even with one leg that bird never wanted for anything.
I know this isn’t the same species, but thanks I haven’t thought of that bird in a long while.
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