RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

Welcome to Day 205 Today is all about Friendship
Mighta been a tough one for our Esteemed Leader Sherrie.
So Ill get us started off.
Remember LOVE DEEPLY and dont put off til tomorrow what you can say today to all your good friends and family.

my very best friend


long time ago still friends


just last winter...dang


another one since HS


he was a good friend

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

This picture was from the Kid's Day festival I shot on Saturday. The young woman volunteers at a Raptor Rescue Center. This Red Tailed Hawk is in its mid-20's, one of the older ones know to be in captivity. It was taken from the nest for a pet before its mother taught it how to hunt. The bird cuddles with her, rubs its head against her cheek like a cat. She said it will pull on her shirt for that close, affectionate attention.

My Mom (the baby in the middle) and 3 of her 4 sisters

jonnyd Loc: Kent, England.

What a lovely shot, clearly an affection between the girl and the Hawk, so nice to see.

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Thank you Jonny. They were very attached.

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

well I got a bunch more since once i make em I generally keep em...so I could go back to my K class. Make you all nuts. So I might have to put up one or two more if I find em and maybe not.

SHERRIE...WE are YOUR FRIEND
I knew this special day would come so with the HELP OF TWO NEW UHH FRIENDS BETTY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.

Smokenmirrorss Loc: WV

Great pictures of you and your HS friend. The clothing and hair styles bring back memories for me. We are apparently about the same age.

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

A true friend....I mean we've hanging together for 35+ years and have yet to do anything legal! How good a friend? Two weeks ago he asked me to go fishing at his camp but I was tied up here with a project, so he went with his son. The trout were not biting, he caught two all weekend...came here on Monday and gave them to me.

He is 84, our birthdays are both on June 22.

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

55 this year...hard to believe. that means I have been friends with those girls for over 40 years.
20 years after graduation and we still all where the same color hahahahaha these are two different girls.
I still had dark hair. hahahahah
one just moved to florida and one is going west soon.
Just visited one girl I have knows since Kindergarten..heheheh

here are a few others from my High school reunion

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

thats real nice RR...Your Pard is in great shape....for his age and well I hope we can all go fishing and share em with our friends when we are 84..(even though I dont go fishing now)

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Real friendships are beautiful, be it dogs, birds or whatever. They can get us through the night........''Lean on me when you're not strong...'' Remember that song?

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Hey Nan.....it goes like this........

A Dying Breed

Let’s call them Pierre and André. Two old boys who have paid their dues to society, done some hard times, had some good times and now are using up the remainder of their allotted time by just being there.

Out in this area, Pierre & André will cruise the dirt roads of their youth a few times a week. Oh yeah they’ll have a beer out there. Sorry to offend some of you, but many years ago this was considered a way of life, you cruised with your podnah, you had a beer and you talked. Today, it is part of history, but the old folks still do it. These two will drive along about 20 mph, wordless. No need to talk, they’ve been doing this for more than fifty years together. They are living memories right now. Occasionally one will point to a stand of trees at the edge of a corn field, and the other will nod. They probably shot a few deer there over the years. Pierre might ask, if it is September, if André wants to set some partridge snares. Yes it is illegal and out of season, but it is unwritten law, they just do it. They will snare enough partridge for one meal apiece. Partridge stuffed with cabbage. André will reply that his snares are ready and Pierre has already gathered berries for bait. Mebbe they will stop and check out a spot in the alders. I am sure they will find a spot.

« Pull over, I have to take a leak .»
« Was up here last week with my wife, we picked a pail of blueberries. Really have to burn this place down and in two years there will be lots of them ».
« Yeah, I picked over on the tracks in back of Boutin’s field, was all right, got some nice blackberries too »
« See any deer over there? »
« Saw several places where they’d laid down, not much more .»
« Wanna head on back? Stop down at Rouleau’s and we’ll get some eggs from Claude. »

The old boys are living it like they like. André’s pickup is almost a treasure chest of « needy stuff ». Has a chain saw, a hook, plastic bags, empty berry buckets, a fishing pole, baling twine, some wire, a roll of duct tape. All kinds of things you’d never think would be useful.

« You never know », they might say….find a fallen tree, a pool that they hadn’t fished in awhile.

Yep, this is the last of a dying breed, an old gnarled guy who has more wrinkles than a snow tire, his podnah for whom he’d give his life and between them they have shared secrets of over a half century. His podnah, a couple of years younger, less wrinked but his watery eyes betray a deep running river.

These men walk with a heavy stick, they command respect soley from a glance. Their faces tell a long story. They are the last of ‘em…..

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

very nice RR....
been a long time since I got in the car with an open beer
or something else to drive around and just have some fun.

i still drive around and have lots of fun but now with no illegals with me.

Like my daddy once told me
"it doesnt really matter where you are...it is who you are with that matters".

Janice Loc: Kentucky

great start Nan

Janice Loc: Kentucky

fantastic photos Smoke

Janice Loc: Kentucky

nice to have such good friends!