The ducks will follow us everywhere on campus, eager to be fed...a little corn and bread work marvels for imprinting.
Since I have been posting lots of photos recently that I've taken on St. Kate' campus, I should tell you a little bit about it:
A dynamic university educating students to lead and influence, St. Catherine prepares students to make a difference in their professions, their communities and the world. At the University's heart is the largest, most innovative college for women in the nation. St. Kate's also offers a range of graduate and associate programs for
women and men.
Part of the campus backs up to our backyard. Until a strong wind took it out, we had a white stile over the fence that our kids could use to hop into the campus. The pond was a big draw where they and their cousins spent many happy hours with the turtles and ducks.
I'd like you to learn more about the history of this university, whose campus I love, so click here! And to see more ABC Wednesday photos, go to this spot.
"C'est la danse des canards
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Se secouent le bas des reins
Et font coin-coin
Fait's comme les petits canards
Et pour que tout l'monde se marre
Remuez le popotin
En f'sant coin-coin
À présent claquez du bec
En secouant vos plumes avec
Avec beaucoup plus d'entrain
Et des coin-coin
Allez mettez-en un coup
Maintenant pliez les g'noux
Redressez-vous…" ;o))
Ducks! They look a lot better than they taste.
ReplyDeleteFlorida ducks attack if they think you have food!
ReplyDeleteCute.
Re Panera Bread - our first experience was at the Knollwood Plaza in St. Louis Park some years back. Panera Bread came to Florida relatively recently.
I like these ducks better than Canada geese. :)
ReplyDeleteDucks always make good subjects for pictures. How wonderful that your kids were able to hop across the fence and have fun with the ducks and turtles Kate.
ReplyDeleteNow they look like they are on a mission. Great duck shots!
ReplyDeleteHow cute, they are like little puppies following you.
ReplyDeleteI take it you have lived in the same location for quite a while, Kate. The university sounds like a wonderful place to get an education.
ReplyDeleteIt is a little frightening, watching these intense duck soldiers coming at us . . .
ReplyDeletelooking very determined!
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Eating won the day for both of us! And thanks for the link to St. Catherine's. I see that it too has become a university, just like my alma mater, Rosary College, became Dominican University. We were always partial to Catherine of Siena.
ReplyDeleteWhat cute ducks, I once raised a duck that the mother had abandoned.
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ReplyDeleteI sometimes feed the ducks at one of my local parks. I find them quite frightening when they all come at you at once!
Nice post.
Evening Wind
always a quack away from eating eh !!
ReplyDeletePheno, ABCW Team
They will follow you around once they're hungry.
ReplyDeleteEpcot's Spaceship Earth, please come and see.
They look so cute walking! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm busy looking at the wooden bridge, I love it :))
ReplyDeleteLove your parade of ducks.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to be backed against "your" lovely campus. Seems like a perfect place to grow up.
Ducks. Ducks and squirrels-always eager to eat! Oh, and pigeons too.
ReplyDeleteI think my son falls into that 'eager to eat' category too! LOL!
I understand that if you have a problem with snails in your yard, getting a duck would solve the problem. They love to EAT snails.
ReplyDeleteThere's just something about ducks
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