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Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.


Sometimes all seagulls need on Christmas day is a stroll along the beach and a long, wistful gaze out over the ocean.

I would like to think that this seagull is ruminating on the often contradictory impulses of nature, the isolation of modern life or how to build a better mousetrap, but I'd wager it's thinking about sex like the rest of us...

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Hilda said…
LOL! Or food. Which most people think about probably more often than sex, I think, despite their saying otherwise! ;D

Thank you for the Christmas greeting, Kris! After the Christmas family reunions, I've only now begun visiting.

I hope you and your family had a wonderful, joyous Christmas!
SH -ic said…
lol poor little one .. are you ok .. have a good time
crittoria said…
I have to agree with Hilda. Probably food, with sex running a close second. For Christmas, I bought my 9 year old son a wonderful little book about raising bunnies. It turned out to have a very graphic and informative chapter on reproduction. He learned a lot, much to our chagrin. ;-) Oh well.
Anonymous said…
No I reckon it's thinking about filling its belly too. Then planning on whose car he can crap on.
Kris McCracken said…
Hilda, I like food. I DO think about it a lot too...

PtW, I am doing okay, thank you.

Crittoria, food and sex? With rabbits? Hmmm...

Jackie, so it isn't jonathan Livingston Seagull then?

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