Wednesday Walk BY the duck pond

Tuesday I had some issues and ended up in the ER and now in a hospital ward overnight and will have a small surgery this morning to get me back on track

So I apologize in advance if I don’t get to visit all the Wednesday walk posts this week

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Any questions about the challenge read the guide at the Bottom of the post ;)

Let me start with this photo of this duck, before I talk about the walk

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This past week I have only been out for one walk, where I got these shots by the pond in Buttonwood Park.

IT wasn't a good week for me for walks, Monday was a nice sunny day, but alas that morning I had a medical test and after that I didn't have the energy for a walk.

After that we had a few rainy days and add to that my Knees were really not in the mood for walking this week, for a few days I was hobbling around the house and didn't get back much, not sure why but there starting to not bother me so much now so hopefully on nice days I will get out for walks in the days ahead.

But as it happens that was written last Sunday when I Prepared this post
Tuesday I had some issues and ended up in the ER and now in a ward overnight and will have a small procedure this morning to get me back on track

So I apologize in advance if I don’t get to visit all the Wednesday walk posts this week

And as I always do when I walk around the duck pond I take a shot of this little island in the middle of the pond

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But other than that I was focusing more on the birds in the water.

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Loved the color n the head of this one

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this one posed for a portrait ;)

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and another shot of the little island to finish off the post

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Weekly giveaway of shares

This week I am sending to the following who joined Wednesday Walk, for this week I did a random draw and the following each received some Hive Hive account@haastrecht, Hive account@moremoney28, Hive account@bloghound, Hive account@grocko and Hive account@slothlydoesit

And Hive account@elizacheng will send to Hive account@stephen-patrick

As Hive account@elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Hive from me and this week it is @TBA

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

Just one Wednesday Walk tagged post a week

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk.

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by Hive account@elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post