Points2Ponder

                                     Points2Ponder

                                                                                                       By Alan P. Scaglone

I said the same thing myself!!

Did you see that? Really?

Yep! And I even got a picture to prove it!

There it is…for everyone to see…and experience!

Talk about friendship!

Guess birds of a feather… float together?

POINTS2PONDER  Ever see something so unusual, so different, so “once in a lifetime” that you have to ask—Did I just see that? And aren’t you glad?? You experienced that moment!

I was walking through Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida with my wife, showing her the campus for the first time.

We walked around, taking in the sights. There’s even a dorm hall called “Genius Hall”

Have to wonder…how do you get selected for that dorm? SAT scores?

So we are walking around, taking in the beautiful non-typical Spring Day in Saturday…in June!

As a native Floridian, I can tell you—it is usually sweltering hot by mid June, but… it was breezy, and pleasant and refreshing.

And it was just me and my girl—walking around, making a memory, not expecting to get anything else out of it but just…breathe!

We get so busy, needing to be entertained or needing to be stimulated…that we forget to just breathe!

And in the end…isn’t that what keeps us alive? Breathing!

And when you least expect it… you look out on the lake, and you go… “Do you see what I see?”

And there it is! A duck swimming around—with a crow sitting on it’s back!

And I got a picture to prove it!

My wife literally LOL’d!

I just kept taking pictures—I knew—this is a once in a lifetime moment—and I’m going to need a picture to prove this!

No one will believe it – without a picture!

It made me laugh—and it made me think “Strange bedfellows? Peculiar friends? Or just two fellow fliers, taking a rest, floating on a sunny, breezy, spring day!”

We watched them for what seemed like 30 minutes, but… soon enough, the crow jumped off the duck…and took a dip in the lake!

The duck? It kept floating…and floating…and floating!

And my girl said, “Its head is not moving! I haven’t seen it move its head one time! WOW! It’s not moving…at all!”

And then… we watched for another ten minutes…as the duck NEVER moved!

And then we realized…it was a DECOY… all along!

Yep! The crow didn’t know it, we didn’t know it, but…the duck…he knew he was a decoy all the time!

We laughed…until we cried!

We had just spent 45 minutes watching a crow sit on a floating device, masquerading as a duck!

And the crow didn’t know it! Bet he thought “Gee, this is one dumb duck!”

Bet the duck thought “Gee, look at the dumb people on shore—wasting a perfect day, watching me, floating around, with a crow on my plastic back!”

But you know what?

I was PERFECT!

Guess it just goes to show…if it looks like a duck, and floats like a duck…that does NOT mean-- it’s a duck!

But a decoy still took a perfect picture!!!

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