Posted on 02/06/2010 11:27:03 AM PST by BunnySlippers
The mute swan and her fluffy cargo were caught on camera by Richard Meston on a visit to Bicton Park Botanical Gardens near Sidmouth, Devon.
Mr Meston, 32, said: ‘The cygnets had been splashing in the water around their mum. They looked like they were starting to get tired and one by one started to scramble up on their mum’s back. She didn’t mind at all and even gave them a nudge up.’
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LOL I gather you have a few rug rats at home......
No, bless you heart but I’ve four other brothers and two sisters and a sainted(departed)mother who had eyes in the back of her head. Don’t all moms?:-)
“Don’t make me come back there’’. If you kids don’t stop, I’ll pull over right now!
The oldest played trombone in the High School band and at one football game the bandmaster (a jerk) pushed Kathryn and her brother came flying out of the band with his trombone still in hand and was ready to take on the teacher...we still talk about that one. Not too much when one of her other brothers pushed her off the rocking chair and split her head on the stone hearth....Being #5, you just put some ice on it and told her to sit quiet for a while..
Large family's can be lots of fun, frustration, fear and just plain tireing....they are all in their 40's one in his 50's and still close...For that I am blessed..Have lovely daughters-in-law also. Their father passed away 20 years ago and sometimes I think the kids still miss him..
Sounds lovely, God bless you. My mother left this world four years ago,succumbing to complications from Alzhimers. a more devout church-going, Rosary-praying Catholic there never was. I miss her so much.
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BUT, mute swans are a non-native species that are terrible neighbors. They are voracious bottom feeders that, on a small body of water, will quickly strip it of natural vegetation and, therefore, the ability to sustain other aquatic life.
Here in Maryland the State DNR actually "takes" (i.e., "kills") them, at least on the Eastern Shore, where it thinks nobody is looking.
I am sorry to hear your mother had Alzheimer’s. That can be harder on the loved one’s sometimes than the patient. I am an old nurse and took care of a lot of Alzheimer’s patients. Some had mild symptoms and some were difficult to deal with, but it wasn’t their fault. Have a great weekend.......GG(I am Irish also) 2 kinds of people in this world, those that are Irish and those that wish they were? That is my personal philosophy
Cute pics.
Leni
Awwwwwwww.
My mother was a nurse too. An OR nurse. Alzheimers is a horrible illness. It’s like death in reverse. First the person’s memory goes, the spirit and soul of who they once were, their cognitive abilities, everything about them goes until all that’s left is an empty shell, a husk of who that person once was. And then comes the physical death. The hardest thing for me, for all of us ,besides her actual passing was when she looked into our eyes and didn’t have any idea who we were.
Wonderful pics!
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