[Photo Journal/A-Z Photo Story Challenge] S is For Swan Lake

Hello. Fats here. It’s Tuesday! Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge. Letter this week is S so the photos you will see on our blog today are the ones I took at Swan Lake Iris Gardens in Sumter, SC. Now I can finally say that I’ve been to Swan Lake! Life goal achieved. =)

“It doesn’t matter if you are born in a duck yard,
so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!”
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

And here’s something I learned that day:

“This sculpture represents the right wing of a pintail duck in its recovery stroke. This theme evolved from a wing position that is considered the weakest in bird flight, yet in the artist’s eye is the position with the most beauty and grace. All of us are in recovery somewhere in our lives, as in our environment…”