Tuesday Photo Challenge – Promise
The spring came late this year. The winter rain kept the sun away when the plum trees needed the warmth to bring out the blossoms. Regardless, the hard-working bees pollinated the blossoms as much as they could. It looks like the trees promise a fruitful harvest in the summer. The top right photo is apples and the bottom right is plums.
Just thought that I could relax to look forward to the harvest, I found out that the homeless and hungry cat has eaten three mourning doves in my backyard. The doves are not very alert. The cat hid behind the flowers and dashed out to the doves. I’m heart-broken and try to do my best to fence in some area for the birds. He’s behind a gate my neighbor installed to keep the dog in their yeard. The cat is flexible to go through any tiny area to get into my yard.
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Thank you, Debbie!
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Aww, I’m sorry about the doves. ❤ We have a new stray cat hanging around here as well whom I've seen go after birds. (Looks similar to yours.) I make noise when I see her stalking a bird to scare the bird away. The other day, she had something in her mouth, and she took it with her. I didn't want to know what it was. But at the same time, I love cats and want to adopt all I see, haha. So I understand your confliction there. 🙂
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Yes, I don’t know what to do with the cat. Right now I just fence off my slope where the cat comes in. So far, I haven’t seen him the last few days. 🙂
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I hope that keeps him out. 🙂 I’m glad of that!
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Yes, so far so good. I have a tiny hummingbird nest with one hummingbird baby in it. It’s growing up. The whole body is filling in the nest. I have to watch it closely. It may fly away anytime soon. ❤
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Oh what a blessing to be able to watch a hummingbird grow up! ❤ How long have you been observing the nest?
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Just 4 days. We didn’t know. The baby has feather already when I first found it. It’s getting bigger – bigger than the nest. I’ll post some photos later. ❤
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I look forward to the photos. ❤
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I post it yesterday. Hope you like it. ❤
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Oh! I’ll read it soon! 🙂 I’m still behind in reading. 😅
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I haven’t read any posts for many days. I’m in a Writers Conference. 🙂
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How fun! 🙂 How is the writer’s conference?
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I’ve learned a lot. Will organize my note. The last workshop was about magazine writing. There are a lot of Christian magazines call for submissions. I’ll send you the links see if you’re interested. Some are topical, devotion, crafts, and many more. For devotion, Old Testament is most needed. 🙂
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That does sound fascinating! I haven’t submitted to many magazines. Maybe one? So I’d love to look into those if you’re sure you don’t mind sharing the links. 🙂
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I love your. Sammi Cox is doing another Anthology from her first year’s writing prompts. But everyone is welcome. You just writing according to the prompt guidelines. It’s due July 1. You submit 5 out of 52 prompts. I’m sending you the post. You click “index” to get the 52 prompts. 🙂
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/weekend-writing-prompt-anthology-the-submission-guidelines/
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Thanks for the link! I’m checking it out now. 😀
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Yes, I hope you can submit as many as you could (up to 5) to start your participation. 🙂
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Sadly, my Internet went out, so I wasn’t able to send in my submissions on time. I did go ahead and enter the one I had written and entered before, so fingers crossed! 🙂
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She is flexible. If your internet is up again, go ahead and send in the submission and tell her why it’s late, and say that if she can’t include the late submission, you would understand. 🙂
I entered one poem loner than the prompt called for, I explained, and she included it. ❤
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Oh wow! Okay, I may do that then. Yes, my Internet is back now. It was off and on from Friday throughout the weekend, and I wasn’t able to finish the new submissions.
That’s great. 🙂
I haven’t heard back yet on the one I sent yesterday, but I hope to soon. 🙂
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She doesn’t send notifications. The readers recommended to post in WP.
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Ooohhhhh. I see. Thanks, that makes sense now. 🙂
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Looking forward to see your contribution. I don’t quite like one of my poem, but I tried to meet the deadline to submit anyway. 🙂
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I’ll try to participate more in the new challenges as well. I enjoy those, I really should do them more. I look forward to reading the ones that you submitted. 😃
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I missed submitting to the Summer issue. I’ll check the Winter submission. You can check also.
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Oh, I’d love to – I’ll definitely check. 🙂
Will there not be an Autumn issue?
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She only does summer and winter. She format them, put them in pdf file. Perhaps she can only handle that much. 🙂
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Oohh, I see. Yes, probably so. 🙂
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Oooh, you’re still awake. 🙂 Talk some more in the morning. 🙂
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Haha, yes, I’ve had a few nights lately which I had a hard time going to bed. XD It’s midnight here now so I’m going to bed soon. 🙂
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Good night. Hope you’d sleep well. 🙂
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Thank you – I slept okay. 🙂 I hope you slept well too. ❤
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It usually takes me a couple hours to fall asleep because of the tingling on my left leg. I sleep-in to make up the hours. 🙂
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Oh, I’m sorry. Glad you are able to sleep in some to help compensate. 🙂
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Yes, I’m retired anyway. 🙂
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Oh, Miriam, I’m so glad you shared this for #ForgivingFridays – thank you! I really get your sadness for these little doves, and also your caring and conflict about the cat. Sometimes life is not clear cut, is it? I’m sending Light and love to you, to your decisions with this, and to all these animals for the highest good. You are such a gem. Much love! Debbie
ps – I’ll share your post this Friday. Blessings Miriam!!
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Thank you, Debbie. I’m glad I have the time to care for little animals. I remember the days that I felt guilty for not having the time to pay enough attention to my daughter.
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Aww I’m so glad too, Miriam. Blessings!! ❤
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Yes, it’s relaxing. 🙂
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Beautiful pictures!
Poor kitty, and even poorer doves. Maybe if the cat gets a full belly, he’ll leave the doves alone.
Blessings~
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I thought of feeding the cat, but it will bring him closer to my yard with expectation. That is my conflict, the birds or the cat(s). 🙂
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Oh, Miriam, I know. It hardly seems fair, does it? You help one, and hurt the other!
I hope they leave the birds alone.
Blessings~
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Thank you Robbye. Yes, the cat hasn’t come around for the last few day since I fenced on one side of the sloop where the cat comes in. He has been around for a long time, I hope he finds food somehow.
Blessings to you.
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Maybe he will stay away and the birds will be safe!
Blessings~
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That’s I’m hoping and watching every day! ❤
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Poor little doves! But wandering cats are very clever.
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Yes, Nahla, thank you. I’ll pay attention to see if the black and white cat will be present after I build the fence.
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Great photos. Sad to hear the cats literally ate the doves. I thought dovers were pretty swift. 😢
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The doves are so content in my yard and are not on guard. I felt guilty to feed them and got them killed. 😦
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Sad. True that once domesticated, doves let their guard down, the prey gets them.
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Yes, I know. Other small birds such as finches and sparrows are on guard all the time. I notices one mourning dove had a ring on his right leg. Someone had capture him and tried to track him. He and the partner came back to my yard beginning of the season. They chose elsewhere to build their nest and I don’t see them anymore the last few months. The dove that come might be their offspring.
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Yes. We have ornithologists here who put rings round legs of endangered birds to track them
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I watched video of people tracking birds. They get messages from other parts of the world carried by the birds.
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This is indeed nice☺
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Yes, it’s incredible. 🙂
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How sad for the little doves. How sad for the little cat to be homeless and hungry too. I guess he’s just doing what cats do. Unfortunately, cats do a lot of damage to our wildlife in Australia, wiping some native species out. It is sometimes more difficult to feel compassion for them en masse than it is for individual cats.
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I understand and sense the conflict in me. I almost want to feed the cat, but afraid to bring the cat even closer to my yard.
We just watched the video about elephants and conflicting with human endeavor of growing rice. Elephants were searching for food and gobble down the crops.
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Sadly, it seems, in nature, there is always a winner and loser. Maybe we are the only ones who try for a win-win, and, more often than not, fail.
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Yes, I made one last effort to build the fence and check for the last three days if there were any new feathers. So far so good. The cat may catch birds from other yard. I put my head in the sand. The cat survives, and the birds in my yard survive, so far. It was hard for me to watch the nature videos when the baby animals are the target of predictors. Yes, I do realize it happens every day in the wild.
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I understand how you feel. We can only do so much. It is nature’s way, after all.
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Yes, that’s a way of life.
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Lovely photos.
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Thank you so much, Eddaz! I appreciate your reading and comment.
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You are welcome Miriam.
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🙂 🙂
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