{"id":754,"date":"2007-05-31T23:56:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T04:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=754"},"modified":"2007-05-31T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T04:56:58","slug":"fifth-of-a-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"fifth of a dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you live and work in a city, you begin to thirst for things you take for granted when you live out in the suburbs &#8212; easy parking, cheap groceries, and nature.<\/p>\n<p>This shot, taken while out on a bike ride with Rudi early in the month, exemplifies the little things that I like to look for along the C&#038;O Canal and is my May submission for 007: Snap a Dozen Days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/524404561\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/243\/524404561_b458a1443c.jpg\" width=\"90%\" height=\"90%\" alt=\"Traveling in a pack\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On that same trip, we saw turtles, cormorants, and a night heron (that I originally mistook for a penguin escaped from the zoo). It was too early for ducklings, but three different goose families were out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/524401875\/\">taking advantage of the nice weather<\/a>. The goslings would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/524352842\/\">paddle, paddle, paddle<\/a> as hard as their little legs would go and Mama and Papa every once in a while would move a leg to keep up their coasting along the surface of the water. 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