A Walk at Stow Lake

I've had a busy weekend, but I was lucky to find some time to relax and enjoy the fresh air. Saturday late afternoon, after Sophie's birthday party and lunch with Mr. Majors, I went to Golden Gate Park to find a spot to read for a while. Of course I had Madge with me. This, along with all the birds and people and green stuff, distracted me from my new book.

Not all the pictures I took were good, but below are some of the ones that make me smile.

First, let me just say, it is fun taking pictures of Canadian Geese. The pair I came across had no fear of me. I was able to get within a foot of them without them doing any more then looking at me for a brief moment before getting back to their important work of feather grooming. I guess they had plans to hit the clubs.

Babies!

And then there were the ducks. Look closely. They smile. Or is it a smirk?

I'm not sure what kind of birds these are...

After I climbed up the stairs next to the waterfall, trying to get neat waterfall pictures (they didn't turn out very good), I came across some bird watchers checking out the owls that have taken up residence on the little island. I managed to get one sorta good pic of one of the babies.

And not to ignore Stow Lake's other charms.

I took soooooo many pictures! Even after cleaning out all the really terrible results, and then cleaning out some more of them, I still ended up with over 300 pictures. I guess I have a little more culling to do! You can see more of the ones I really like in my In the Park set on Flicker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/snarfff).