Location: Redington Shores, FL
The last photo represented end-of-day tranquility, the dark, serene evening wind-down. Here's a bright, lively equipoise to that.
What you can't see in this morning capture is the little girl's grandma, standing just feet behind her, encouraging her with cheers at every nibble and even at every near-miss between seagull beak and crumble of bread. This is my niece in a beach-goer's rite of passage: her first feeding of the birds. The event ended with plenty of happy seagulls after she turned to her grandma and, having so beautifully trusted in the promise of the payoff of patience, asked for the thing she might have secretly been planning all along: permission chuck the rest of the breadcrumbs into the air in one giant heave and let them fall to the birds as they may. Grandparent and grandkid left the empty beach in the wake of a snowfall of baked flour and, thankfully, no bird "bombings."
Title: The Promise of the Payoff of Patience
a.k.a. My Niece Feeds Seagulls by Hand
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