Swans!

While in Florida at the park,

we saw swans!!!!

You know ME.

I couldn't NOT photograph them, for cryin' out loud!

So today, sit back...think SPRING, peacefulness, soft breezes coming in your windows....

and enjoy.....

Two beauties...

They automatically signal peacefulness and grace to me:

Now...everybody....together....

take one deep CLEANSING breath....IN.......and OUT......

Feel better?????

Spring Swans....

On a trip down to the southern part of the U.P., we went by Lake Michigan again.

Right outside of Escanaba, Michigan

on  a the only little patch

of open water.....

I

saw

THIS!:

Two lovely tundra swans swimming about!

It is very early up here for sightings of swans!  They usually don't migrate up this far north until April, but this has been a warmer-than-usual March...(I am writing this on March 27th and prepublished this post):

So beautifully graceful!:

(Of course, I made my husband turn around on a busy four-lane highway so I could jump out of the car to capture them!)

But just LOOK at him/her:

Wouldn't YOU jump out of a car to see them up closer?

And not ONE beauty, but TWO!!:

It MADE MY DAY!:

Like a dream...

I hope, like me....

looking at them

made you

calmer...

  quieter...........

and

even more thankful

for

Nature's gifts.

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