Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers
This week the topic is Feathers.
Feel free to use your photo archives and see what photos you have that fits the current week’s challenge, or even better yet grab you camera and take a new photo! ENJOY and have FUN. – Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
I had seen peacocks in a zoo but hadn’t seen them up close roaming freely until my trip to Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Arcadia. The local historian traced back to a few peacocks Elias J. Baldwin picked up on a trip to India around 1880. He brought them back to his 8,000 acres of land then known as Rancho Santa Anita in Los Angeles.
After Baldwin’s death in 1909 at age 81, his daughter Anita sold off parcels of the ranch. In 1947, the state and the County of Los Angeles jointly purchased 111 acres to create an arboretum around the heart of the old ranch. Later the county purchased additional parcels, bringing the Arboretum’s total acreage to today’s 127.
In the 1880s, there were some 50 of the peacocks on the ranch. In the early 1960s, there were around 350. The Arboretum got tired of having so many and auctioned off down to 200. The peacocks could find food and plenty of places to lay eggs and continue to multiply. Since the Arboretum isn’t totally fenced in, today, they are a regular sight on city streets. – Source
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The Showers of Blessings 
Beautiful.
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Thank you, Rob. 😃
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I’m glad you got to see them close-up at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden, that was definitely a worth-while visit. Peacocks are such magnificent creatures, truly stunning. Love the photos, Miriam! ♥
Caz xx
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Thank you so much for stopping by and read, Caz. Yes, I remember at the zoo waiting for them to open up the feathers. At this Garden, they walk around with the feathers open. I don’t mind going back to visit. ❤
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Soooo pretty! I’ve seen a few but nothing like these awesome displays of feathers! I love how they sound, too, so loud! 🙂
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Oh, Barbara, I haven’t heard their sound, I would like to hear it someday. 🙂
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Amazing shots of some beautiful birds, Miriam!
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Thank you, Sue! They were everywhere in the garden. I’m glad we went!
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Wow, Miriam, what a unique find! Thank you for sharing this––I had no idea the Arboretum existed. Great photos. I hope you and your husband and family are doing well. I love you. ❤
Debbie
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Debbie, I didn’t know either, but our church group has women’s events and the coordinator is good at finding interesting things for us to do. Hope you’re doing well also. Love you, Miriam ❤
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Oh WOW!!! Your photos are absolutely gorgeous for this week’s feather topic. I’m so happy you could play along 😀
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Thank you, Cee. This is fun and I happen to have the photos for this week’s topic. 🙂
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Beautiful birds. At Newstead Abbey they are always to be found roosting in the trees!
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Wow, good to hear that. They are so gorgeous. When we went to Key West, we saw roosters and iguanas roaming on the streets!
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Nature gives us some marvellous free entertainment!
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Exactly, Peter. I have quite a bit in my garden with my baby hummingbird, and now the mourning dive is incubating!
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What a beautiful feathered display Miriam. Such stunning colours.
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Thank you, Brigid. I didn’t know about the peacocks in this garden until I got there. 🙂
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Gorgeous pictures, Miriam. I love peacocks.
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They are gorgeous, Robbie. I remember seeing them at the zoo and waited for a long time for them to open the feathers. Here in this garden, they do that all the time.
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A gorgeous collection of new facts. A wonderful post, Miriam.
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Thank you, Michael. The house in that garden is a film site for “Love Boat.” But it’s not part of the topic of this post, so I didn’t include that.
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Oh M – I used to like the Love Boat!! Maybe a post sometime later – ha
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Oh, great, I have photos of that house, but not the angle as shown in Love Boat.
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so fun
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Yes… 🙂
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They are such beautiful birds and pictures, Miriam. I was at my cousins outdoor wedding and they were roaming around. One started squawking loudly during the ceremony and made everyone laugh.
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Yes, Denise, they do make loud squawking and could be annoying in that neighborhood. Hearing it occasionally is fun!
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Peacocks are stunning. The colour of my car is ‘royal peacock’. I would expect a colour so named to be a bright shade of blue but my car is a very dark green that often looks black if it’s not in the light. Go figure.
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Yes, Norah, I would think the color of your car is as stunning as the peacock! I guess the peacock has a sheen to show the color. I don’t know why your car doesn’t do that… 🙂
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It does have a green sheen in the sun. It is quite beautiful. That’s why I chose it, of course. 🙂
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I’m sure we chose the colors we like for our cars, Norah. I think I stay with pearl white for my next car. My Acura is 20 years old, almost 210,000 miles. 🙂
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We like to keep our cars for quite a while too, Miriam, but I don’t think we’ve had one for twenty years! Pearl white sounds lovely. White is often said to be the safest colour.
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Thank you, Norah. For us here, we associate safe color as not being spotted by police as easy as bright colors. Acura is made by Honda and Honda has a good reputation for keeping the customers. I had a small Honda before this one. I don’t know what car I’ll get for the next one though.
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Your definition of safe cars made me smile, Miriam. Over here, safe cars are considered the ones most clearly visible on the roads. Darker cars are harder to see against the bitumen, especially in wet weather.
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I know, Norah. The traffic tickets are very expensive here. For the cites, funds generated from traffic tickets are discretionary income, and cities can use it any way they want. Many years ago, I got two tickets for not wearing seat belt.
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I think that here, sometimes, fines are issued simply to raise revenue. Did you get two tickets on one occasion or separate occasions? I hope you have learned your lesson and always wear a seat belt now. 🙂
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On two occasions, Norah, years ago. Yes, now I wear seat belt even when going for a short ride.
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I’m pleased to hear you are taking your safety seriously, Miriam.
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Yes, I’m taking it more serious now, Norah!
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Bird Royalty!
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Yes, I can see the rope now. Thank you!
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How stunning, Miriam! Gorgeous!!
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Thank you, Amy. The peacocks are funny, they turn their bodies around in place!
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good one miriam
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I’m glad you like it.
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That’s great you got to see them with their feathers spread. I’ve seen them but they always seem to have their feathers tucked in.
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I know, Milford. With one or two at the zoo, it seems forever to wait for them to open the feathers. At the Arboretum, they do that all the time.
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