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This Little Stick Went to the Beach~

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We should give this stick credit. It tried to go to the beach, although it seems to have gotten lost on the way, instead venturing to a rather stony shore. The moss-covered stones and ivy are a nice touch.

There is a very pleasant ambience here.

Alas, it also seems to be a gathering place for lost sticks, with new adventurers finding their way here.

Perhaps the stick afterlife begins at a stony shore?

We may never know.

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Fun Fact: I break keyboards at a rate of a keyboard every 6-8 months if it isn’t attached to a laptop. In good news, I think I bought at least another month on this keyboard’s general lifespan…

… now if only I could somehow treat my main keyboard with the same care, love, and compassion I do my laptop keyboard…

I Found These Sticks Far From the Tree…

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Sometimes, sticks tell very strange and interesting stories. They can also leave interesting mysteries in their wake. How did they get there? Were children responsible? Some rather aggressive gusts of wind?

I visited a park near my home, and I began hunting for sticks as soon as I emerged from my car, armed with my camera. I made it all of a few steps before finding these sticks.

I suspect a dog or a child is responsible for the relocation of these sticks to the open green space. Alas, these sticks kept their secrets, and they will go on to the stick afterlife maintaining their silence.

I will say this much. Should the sticks break their sacred oath of silence, we’re all screwed.

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Fun Fact: In the United States alone, 1,200 different species of animals, birds, and reptiles use deadfall/sticks to build their habitats. Sticks are important.

So is my morning cuppa tea or coffee. Bad things happen when I don’t have my morning cuppa tea or coffee.

This Proud Canada Goose Found a Stick!

Birds with Sticks, Sticks

Well, that stick belongs to this goose now. This is a daddy goose who has seen things, dark and terrible things, and he is finding comfort with the stick he has found. The park is clearly labeled as a non-smoking area, so he turned to his next option, the noble stick.

While I meant to photograph sticks on the ground, I found it hugely amusing that this goose picked up a smol stick while chomping grass and ended up carrying it around with him.

This goose has seen things, dark and terrible things. (It couldn’t have anything to do with his six children, not at all.)

If anyone wants to take that itty bitty stick from that goose, I wish them the best of luck.

He means business.

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Fun Fact: The proper name of this bird is a “Canada” goose, but the wise call them Canadian geese hoping these feathered murder machines will take mercy on their souls. 99% of all Canadian malice is held within the dark souls of these migratory birds.

This egret photobombed these sticks in the making!

Birds with Sticks, Sticks

Reeds counts as sticks, right? They can be wielded as a sword, although they have questionable durability. When dried, they have a stick-like appearance… we should welcome all sticks, no matter if they look a little off compared to other sticks.

I do find it absolutely hilarious that I went out to photograph sticks for this project but located this beautiful bird instead. The bird was quite a sociable one. In the time I spent out photographing sticks, I ‘somehow’ managed to take 1,800 pictures of this egret.

… Yes, it took 1,800 tries to get a decent shot of the bird in flight. Bonus: there are sticks!

Reeds are one of my favorite types of sticks, though. You can turn them into baskets, you can make instrument parts out of them, you can turn them into instruments if you find the right type… you can blow bubbles with them. Sticks are amazing.

There were also ducks, but they did not opt to pose near sticks for me. The ducks opted to take naps for the most part, doing their afternoon duck things. I do quite like ducks, but much like Canada geese, they can have a temper. These ducks were a mix of wild and domestic mallards.

For a little of the technicals behind this shot, I was using a Sony a1 with a Tamron 28-200 F/2.6-5.6 DI III RXD lens. When I photograph birds, I usually use a Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS. Sticks prefer being photographed with the Tamron.

Birds are jerks. But when your shutter speed is set to 16,000, and the bird happens to be on the ground when you depress the shutter button, and you also happen to track the bird flying right in your face, sometimes you get lucky.

And yes, the bird wasn’t quite close enough to touch–but would have been, if only I had possessed a stick.

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This sad little stick seems to be quite lost!

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This stick has seen better days. It became lost in some fresh, concrete hell to be trodden upon by careless homo sapiens. Then, to add insult to injury, its demise was photographed!

The stray pine needles from the neighboring trees adds a nice touch to the strange desolation of this photo. I don’t believe the stick came from a pine tree. What kind of tree, however, I’m not sure. There are a few options nearby with the right type of bark.

A mystery, a strange little mystery.

Before deciding to go on a quest to discover sticks, I hadn’t thought sticks could tell so many stories. But they can, and they do. This stick is not long for its world, but it got to leave its mark.

Well done, stick.

(Cue the Circle of Life.)

The Huntress of Sticks is not at all sorry for the development of any childhood ear worms, for she sings unknown lyrics much to the dismay of her spouse.

In other news, the Huntress of Sticks is going to go find and read her copy of Where the Sidewalk Ends. It seems strangely appropriate right now.

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Fun Fact of the Day

Sticks in the wild cannot be trusted. The may rise up against you. When approaching a wild stick, take every precaution. Approach with care, observing for things like spiders, playing dogs, and even children. Should the stick appear safe, claim it for your nefarious uses!

Waging war with a loved one, after they have also acquired a stick, is a wholesome activity that should be indulged in at least once a month.

Return used sticks to nature for birds.

Should a bird gift you wish a stick, that is a treasure, and it should be relocated to a place of honor.

Shoreline shenanigans! You guessed it. I found a stick!

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It is amazing what you miss when you take a walk. Until I went off in search of sticks, I never noticed just how many sticks can be found out and about. You can find beautiful decay in the strangest places, including sticking out from between some rocks next to a little stream.

These are most excellent sticks, provided by a rather lovely grove of redwood trees. The redwoods were rather disgruntled to have lost many of their little sticks. The latest windstorms did them no favors. However, I’m quite gruntled to have found their little stick presents lying all over the ground for me to photograph.

Tip: do not let one of these sticks have a close encounter with your foot. It hurts. Also, those little pine needles are nefarious, demonic entities determined to become lodged in your shoes and adhere to your socks.

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