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Saturday, June 23, 2018

It's National Pink Day!



Here's a piece of trivia for this next to the last Saturday in June:

"National Pink Day is observed annually on June 23rd. This day is set aside for the color pink and all it represents."*

As for my rooftop garden, the pink trimmed leaves on my Smoke Bush represent protection for my Mouse Ears! AND The Mouse Ears (mini hostas) are in bloom again!

My mini hostas are already beginning to flower which is something that doesn't usually occur until midsummer!

These plants prefer part to full shade, which are not the conditions in my rooftop garden, however the foliage of my Smoke Bush seems happy to oblige by using her now pink-trimmed foliage to shield the mouse ears from direct sun.

National Pink Day is also a good "excuse" to reflect on the Muscovy duck who has pink features as seen in the next set of images.

THIS MUSCOVY DUCK IS FEATURED IN VOL 3

THIS MUSCOVY DUCK IS FEATURED IN VOL 3

THIS MUSCOVY DUCK IS FEATURED IN VOL 3

THIS MUSCOVY DUCK IS FEATURED IN VOL 3

The Muscovy duck seen here is one I first encountered when I was near the 79th Street Boat Basin (on the Hudson River in NYC) this past fall (which is when I took pictures 1-3) and I featured her in a number of entries here on Blogger.

I am happy to say I saw her again this past Saturday, when it was unseasonably hot and she was catching some shade on a pier at the same Boat Basin (as seen in the last picture).

I've been told her name is Jewel and that's very appropriate as she certainly seems to be a jewel!
Maybe I can persuade Cam to include her in volume three (which we hope to have available this September) of the Words In Our Beak (WIOB) book series.

*More info re National Pink Day can be found by clicking here.

FALL 2018 ADDENDUM: 

Hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can be found wherever books are sold.

MY BOOK SERIES


Please click here to go to my blog post that provides details as to where you can get these books. Additionally, I have rendered some images from these books into other formats and they are available via Fine Art America (FAA). Some of my other photographs (Black & White CollectionKaleidoscopic Images and the famous Mandarin duck who visited NYC) can also be found on my FAA pages.

ADDENDUM SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2021:

When the third volume of the hard-cover version of Words In Our Beak was released, I withdrew from promoting my former versions of Words In Our Beak. 

The very first one is an iBook and went into Apple's book store in 2015.


This was followed by an ePub version...


... that is available on Amazon and was also published in 2015.

Subsequently, Words In Our Beak's digital versions were published as a soft-cover book (with slight variations) by MagCloud in 2017.


Its press release can be read by clicking here.  

Now with the release of BIRD TALES....


... I've been advised to make mention of my early versions of volume one of Words In Our Beak, they do vary ever so slightly in content from the hard-cover version of volume one.

As of this addendum, I do not intend to create digital or soft-cover versions of Words In Our Beak Volume Two or Words In Our Beak Volume Three.

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