Here comes the gang....

“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”

~ James Whitcomb Riley ~

Hi my friends,

we have still gray and rainy clouds here in the hills of North Carolina... that's a good weather to be gambling in a Casino! We went this afternoon in the Harrah's Casino in Cherokee - and we won....yeah! Not quiet a lot this time, but won is won...right...?... and we are happy :)

Thanks for all your wonderful compliments to my last post - love you all! :)

Stay with me and enjoy my today's post too.
Susanne and David

An Afternoon in the Park - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A walk trough Hampton Park in Charleston on a sunny afternoon in December 08, that's what we did yesterday, hubby and I, before we went to an excellent Birthday dinner.

Ducks were gathering around in the pond, looking for all kind of food

Hello, Mr. Duck... I like your hat today!

And there are still some pretty colored Maple leafs left on that tree

December roses and Dragon Snappers are still blooming. I think, they don't know about the word "winter" at all.

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I wish to all my readers today :

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

and THANK YOU for all your visits and for all the nice comments you were writing to me on this blog and for your virtual friendship in 2008.

2009 will bring some BIG CHANGES for us - not just on the political platform, also for us, for David and me. There will be new and good and exciting things going on for us. I will tell you about later in a post. So, stay tuned and don't miss anything!

Have a great start into this coming new year,
welcome it with LOVE and PEACE!

Hungry Carps on Broadway

This are the "famous" ducks and carps on Broadway, non-stop begging for food. No, no, I'm not talking about THE Broadway in NYC, I made the photos at the Broadway Park waters in Myrtle Beach :-)

Hundreds of carps are begging with wide open mouths for food. And of course, people can not resist and will drop 25cents into those little machines there with fish food, drop them to the water and watch the beginning fights for food and surviving.

They look like they would sing a song.... :-)

But for the most of them it is not a fight for surviving at all, look how fat they are! It is only begging!

A pretty and very shy duck tried to catch also some of the dropped fish food

And here I've found a sweet lyric with CHRIS REA about "I'm gone fishing"

I'm gone fishing
I got me a line
Nothing I do is gonna make the difference
So I'm taking the time

And you ain't never gonna be happy
Anyhow, anyway
So I'm gone fishing
And I'm going today

I'm gone fishing
Sounds crazy I know
I know nothing about fishing
But just watch me go

And when the time has come
I will look back and see
Peace on the shoreline
That could have been me

You can waste a whole lifetime
Trying to be
What you think is expected of you
But you'll never be free

It's definitely Springtime, Folks.... !

Isn't he beautiful?

But she doesn't care to much about him...

This is called "competition"... and a beautiful one too!

Why he looks so mean...?

She was very busy with her first bath in the warm sun

Cock fights...they go ready to fight each other

Is a bench for goats only?

Sweet little piggy

It smells like spring is here...

And he enjoyed the warm sunshine on his back


David and I were yesterday visiting Magnolia Gardens outside of Charleston. This here is a first series of pictures I made from our two and four legged friends out there.

Stay tuned, tomorrow you will see more from the wonderful blooming Gardens it self, all the breathtaking flowers and amazing nature scenes!