Photo Credit: Valerie Comer
We live on the Pacific Flyway, and one of the highlights at this time of year is the sightings of swans. They stop over to feed and replenish their strength before continuing to fly north to their nesting grounds. The photos on this post are ones I took in March, 2016. Although we’ve seen swans recently, I haven’t been able to get as good of photos as last year!
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The lovely, lilting trill of red-winged blackbirds is so welcome at this time of year as well!
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March 2017
Love at First Laugh by Heather Gray, Elizabeth Maddrey, Krista Phillips, Marion Ueckermann, and four others
Promise of Peppermint (An Urban Farm Fresh Romance prequel) by Valerie Comer
Muffins & Moonbeams (Baxter Family Bakery 1) (Arcadia Valley Romance 3) by Elizabeth Maddrey
The Soldier and the Single Mom by Lee Tobin McClain
Season of Joy (Rios Azules Christmas 2) by Alexa Verde
April 2017
Designing Love (Sunriver Dreams 3) by Kimberly Rose Johnson
Nowhere for Christmas by Heather Gray
Secrets of the Heart (Romance from the Heart 1) (Arcadia Valley Romance 4) by Lee Tobin McClain
Sweet Love of Mine (Magnolias and Moonshine 5) by Lindi Peterson
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
Hi Valerie:) Lovely photos, Spring is such a beautiful time of year- everything coming ‘back to life’, that reawakening of green. We are still having warm days, but the mornings/evenings are definately autumn weather.
Blessings:)
Thanks for sharing the inspiring swan pictures. Swans are just beautiful creatures. Many of our inland lakes have swans. We are experiencing spring weather with warmer temperatures and spring showers. Congrats on your release Promise of Peppermints.
The swans are beautiful! The red wing black birds have just returned to the lake near our house where we walk. We enjoy watching them puff themselves up as they call.
Autumn is a lovely time of year, too. Everything giving one last burst before winter, and the cooling weather is often quite welcome after a hot summer!
“The swans are here!” is an announcement that thrills every year! Years like this one, with so much flooding (due to All.That.Snow. in February and March!) they’re harder to find because, frankly, they can land just about anywhere! We’ve seen them, but at more of a distance.
Thanks for the congrats! I’m delighted to have Rebekah and Wade’s story out.
I love the beautiful song of the red-winged blackbirds. One of my favorite sounds in nature :)
I’ve always loved swans, and books about them, such as E.B. White’s “Trumpet of the Swans” , and Anderson’s “The Ugly Duckling”. As a child I thought it would be nice to have one as a pet in a nearby pond. ?
In mid-December when we were at my niece’s for an early Christmas with her family, we got to see the swans near Sacramento, California! I’ve got one of the pictures I took as my computer wallpaper. I enjoyed Promise of Peppermints and need to get a review written!
They do seem magical in literature!
So that’s where they winter over! Good to know.
I’m so glad you enjoyed Promise of Peppermint, and I’d love a review. :)
I just love swans, they are elegance in birds, imo, unless that’s just the way stories have made them. :)
Last year red winged blackbirds started showing up regularly at the feeder in my backyard and just in the last week or so they have returned. New visitors to my yard and feeder over the last couple of months have been flickers. I now regularly have four different kinds of woodpeckers that show up.
They’re quite elegant in nature, too!
Yes, flickers are back here, too!