Merry Christmas to family and friends who are celebrating Christmas today and Happy Holidays to all of you scattered throughout the world. Even this Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) seemed to want to join me in singing earlier this week.
“And heaven and nature sing,” as the chorus to “Joy to the World” tells us, as all creatures join with the landscape to “repeat the sounding joy.”
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Mike Powell 
Beautiful photo, beautiful sentiment. Merry Christmas to you, Mike.
Thank you, Michael. I woke up with a snuggling Cocker Spaniel that I am watching this week and just got back from a church service, so I am feeling pretty mellow. I hope your Christmas is equally enjoyable. 🙂
Spending Christmas with family, which is the best thing to do.
Wonderful photo, Mike, and lovely message. Merry Christmas to you, and thank you for this past year of sharing the beauties and songs of nature.
Merry Christmas to one of my favorite photographers.
Merry Christmas, Mike. A warm pup by your side is a nice way to start the day.
Merry Christmas, Mike!
I hope you had a good one Mike!
‘Each little flow’r that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings. All Things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful : The Lord God made them all.” – Cecil F. Alexander 1848. This is a song that I sang to Benjamin when he was a wee baby and that he has learned through the years by singing along with me. It came to mind as I read your post and looked at your lovely photo of this not so little Great Blue Heron. Your beautiful posts and photos remind us every day to appreciate the gifts that are freely given to us, if we just take the time to look. Merry Christmas from Benjamin and Gem! Thank-you, Mr. Mike!!
This is so sweet. Hope your new year is a wonderful one. You and I are definitely on the same wavelength as we look at nature and it is so great that you are able to pass on that love of nature to Benjamin.
Merry Christmas Mike!
Merry Christmas, love this picture. Such a pretty bird!
Thanks. Best wishes for a wonderful 2020.
Beautiful, Mike!❤️🎄
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Mike.
And the same, Chris, albeit belatedly to you, Wade, and Bengie.
The same to you.