Warm summer days

Does anyone realize, or care, how hard it is to get a bird flying? With manual focus, 105mm f/2.5 P?  I know. And I care. It is hard. And I can't say this was skill. This was sheer luck.

"The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"...like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood... "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charlie Chaplin

"Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bob Dylan

"Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back to the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wheat in the wind..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"...  we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty."
¸.•*´¨`♥ James Kavanaugh (There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves)

"I believe there is something out there watching us."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Woody Allen

..."all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Dean Koontz