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| Galveston is home to laughing gulls, ring-billed gulls and herring gulls. |
I love seagulls. I know some people find them irritating, but I've always thought they interesting: so sleek, handsome, chatty. On a recent trip to Galveston, it seemed like there were fewer gulls than I had remembered. But I loved seeing them wheel and dive, looking for food. The warm water was full of fingerling mullet and the seagulls competed with pelicans for lunch.
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| Seagulls have a life expectancy of more than 20 years! |
My favorite characters in the movie Nemo were the seagulls -- it seemed like the film's creators got the personality of the seagulls just right.
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And I have to confide: there's a small, secret part of me that still remembers Richard Bach's novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull, with a sentimental fondness. Smaller, more secret part? I used to own the Neil Diamond soundtrack album. Now there's someone who loves seagulls!
Showing our age. I remember loving that Neil Diamond music ;>)
ReplyDeleteWell, I owned the novella and the soundtrack, too! (I may still have it, buried somewhere.) I always enjoy sea gulls when I go to the beach. I took photos of them when I went to Orange beach this past January. Now I look at those photos and wonder how many survived the oil spill.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment on my blog. I have read where certain hostas can do well in Texas - saw it on GardenWeb's hosta forum, but did a search just now and could not find it. Here is the link:
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Then there is a Texas state page where hostas are discussed. You may be able to post a question there and find out which one's are better for your area.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/txgard/
Then, I found a thread about Texas garden bloggers which I don't know about you, but I find others in my area who blog interesting like Deb.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/txgard/msg1013270531265.html?38
See ya,
Jeff
Thank you Jeff! I'll see if I can find a better hosta for my area.
ReplyDeleteI'll touch base later,
Elizabeth
What's not to love about seagulls? :)
ReplyDeleteI think they are cuter than crows. Crows kind of freak me out.
hi! found your blog from a comment on may dreams gardens. just had to comment on this seagull post. still have the book, still have the album. lol. i'm sure both put a favorable slant to our experience of those birds.
ReplyDeleteI was just telling the Chief Engineer here -- there are more of us Jonathan Livingston Seagulls than he could ever imagine!
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