Wintery Week
Ugh, it's too cold and rainy. Unlike Dom, I don't find splashing about and throwing stones in puddles to be great fun so I find little appealing about the current weather.
Personally, I think it's time to hibernate and we should only venture out into the cold to go on foraging missions to hunt/gather dunkable biscuits and warm comfort foods. I'm trying to convince the outdoorsy Dominic that staying inside in the warm is fun. I even got him a comfy foam armchair to encourage couch potatoness.
While he does enjoy sitting on it for brief photo sessions, reading books and watching Kungfu Panda, it is sadly more often used as a portable step-ladder to help him reach mischief-making opportunities on couches, bookcases and benchtops.
The Dominator has also been quite insistant on getting outside for a decent walk and/or splashing session at least once a day. He has discovered that beating on doors and attempting dangerous manoeuvres in daring attempts to reach the door handles will eventually lead to outside activities.
Our usual park has become a bit of a boggy mess with the rain, so we've tended to go to Kotuku Park swathed in wet weather gear between bouts of stormy weather. The playground stays reasonably dry and Dom loves it so much, he'd probably insist on a visit during a blizard.
The Park also has lots of lovely birds to stop off and feed on the way back. Pukeko, ducks and swans all hang together in a nice interracial flock.
As you can see from the secure arm around Dominic, he really just wants to jump in with the birds. While others dream of swimming with dolphins, Dom wants to splash about with ducks and swans.
Swans know they are good looking. They happily pose for the camera.
There is also a ridiculously cute baby swan (signet?). I have been meaning to take photos of it for ages but fear of Dom diving in have prevented earlier pics. (Matt took this one). It's now going through the gangly adolescent half fluff, half adult feathers but it was so cute that I began to question the whole ugly duckling idea. I think baby swans hold up pretty well against cute ducklings, even if they're not as cute, they certainly don't look ugly. I think they're easily cuter than adult ducks anyway.
So what is public opinion? Baby Swans - hot or not?
posted by debbie at 10:01 PM
5 Comments:
definitely hot! and the same colour as the cygnets of white swans - which is kind of interesting. (if you are a biologist, which I am)!
I think cygnets are hot. As opposed to Not. Anyway, I think the idea is that *ducks* think they're ugly, due to them making a weird big duckling.
Ah 'cygnet' is the correct spelling - good to know that the internet can provide useful swan info when required :-)
I can't remember the details of the Ugly Duckling story. Do the ducks then think the swan is beautiful when it grows up or do they still think it's weird?
From memory of long, long ago and far away....In the story swans are kind of top of the pecking order of birds (to mix up a few things here - since its hens that peck....) and regarded as stunningly beautiful by all - in a kind of Paris Hilton with brains kind of way, since they glide around being stunning without having to do much else.
Forget the "with brains", I think I meant "with morals" :).
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