We shall not pretend that this photograph offers much dignity for Poe, but come on: It’s a thing, and I was able to perch a duck on it.
This is what we do here, folks.


We shall not pretend that this photograph offers much dignity for Poe, but come on: It’s a thing, and I was able to perch a duck on it.
This is what we do here, folks.

Playgrounds have the best things to put ducks on, wouldn’t you agree?
Too bad those pesky children are usually on most of those things. I was lucky to get the use of the tire swing last Saturday for this shot.

I arrived at the local park last Saturday just after a baseball-or-softball game had wrapped up. Timing, they say, is everything.
That’s not actually true, however. Lighting and focus matter quite a bit as well…

A very nice, albeit mildly amused, gentleman at the park last Saturday acceded to my request that I use one of his drums (the one he wasn’t making noises with) in a photograph.
He was even more amused when I took a duck out of my backpack along with the camera.

This… is the result of a very silly idea that came to me a while ago, when I came across yet another of those silly meme sites… people putting stuff on their pets, or something along those lines. I thought, “Hell, if they can do that, why can’t I just put up pictures of… I dunno, my ducks on random objects?”
And here we are. To start us off, please enjoy this picture of Rusty from Quacked Panes, perched on a statue of a bear cub at the zoo.
But it doesn’t have to be just my ducks on random objects. Have you a duck, or a flock thereof? Maybe you’d like to join in on this silliness, then. If so, then I’ll work up a submissions process and we can all work toward making the Internet an even sillier place than it already is.
I mean, what worthier endeavor could there be?
There’s nothing quite like the realization that you were wearing the wrong black jeans to work all week…
…and that it was the pair which was due for structural failure…
…that had finally started to give out at some point in the week, unnoticed until Saturday morning.
Sigh.