Posted on 04/05/2011 7:23:48 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
It was typical of Sheila Lawrence that she didn't take her leave of Monticello until after her beloved trumpeter swans, nurtured and fattened all winter long on the Mississippi River below her house, were on their way north once again.
Lawrence, 65, died Saturday after an eight-month battle with cancer. She left a legacy for her river town in the large graceful birds that now winter there, thanks to the "Swan Lady" who fed them for more than 20 years.
"Maybe she was the bird whisperer. Some people have it," said her husband, Jim, who took over the feeding for his wife this winter when she became too sick to continue.
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Sweet story and she must have been special.. A Swan can be one ornery bird, although they are beautiful...
Every November, while deer hunting in northern Minnesota, we witness the southern migration of these noisy neighbors...
;-)
RIP.
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