Category: Nature

Sweet & Petite

Remember how we sponsored a duck at a nearby animal sanctuary? Yesterday, for the first time, we went to visit her!

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Patito is a mallard, and she’s tiny. She lives in a lovely enclosure with her friend Pip and two other ducks. Here’s Patito and Pip:

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Look how mini she is! We were taken to see her by one of the volunteers who told us how feisty and noisy Patito was. She didn’t disappoint, quacking endlessly as we held and patted her:

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Here she is undoing KLS’s shoelaces with her beak:

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It was great to finally meet ‘our’ little duck, and we feel even better about the work being done by the sanctuary. It’s good to know little Patito is healthy and happy and in good hands 🙂

Postscript

I had another camera with me in Japan, although as it turns out I took very few pictures on it. Here’s one of them:

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That’s a shrine in Mount Takao, where we went on the second day. The photo uses the camera’s ‘toy mode’ to make it look quite surreal.

I spent this morning preparing for my summer course that starts Monday. Preparation will continue through the rest of this week. Being immersed in the tedium of work is a good way to almost make it seem like the trip was a dream.

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That’s another shot taken with the new camera; a panoramic shot of the Golden Temple in Kyoto.

I have so many good memories from Tokyo 2013! I’m very glad we went, and doubly glad Bernard was there with us 🙂

In the meantime there is a giant pile of toys, books and games that came back with us. Expect the occasional blog post on these in the future.