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Good morning, friends. 
22 Jul 23
It's Saturday and I have the day off. Which sounds like a treat, if I leave it at that. But if you follow my morning musings, you know that I have every day off. For some reason, Saturday still feels exciting.
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There are things that puzzle me - surprise. 
The photographs that I post are mostly birds, plants, and other animals, nature type photos. But occasionally, I see an interesting building, ship, of other structure that I bet somebody would enjoy seeing a picture of. For some odd reason, a few of those benign photos seem to draw unsolicited blunt negative comments. Not from everybody, but it's almost as if there are a few people who thrive on trying to stifle the joy of other people.
"My mamma said, 'If you don't have something nice to say then say nothing at all'" - unknown.
“The covers of this book are too far apart.” - Ambrose Bierce
![This is an incredible red Canna Lily (Canna indica L.), there is mostly brown earth in the background. I took this photo in Costa Maya, Mexico. The flower is difficult to describe. It is so uniformly red it's difficult to discern between the flower's petals. There appears to be two large roundish petals hanging downward and two upwards with the edge folded over. There are three, not yet completely bloomed lilies rolled and pointed upwards behind the flower.
"Canna or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species.[2][3][4][5] Cannas are not true lilies, but have been assigned by the APG II system of 2003 to the order Zingiberales in the monocot clade Commelinids, together with their closest relatives, the gingers, spiral gingers, bananas, arrowroots, heliconias, and birds of paradise." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_%28plant%29](https://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/110/757/643/835/987/590/original/44d1dfdd6e8fbfb6.jpg "This is an incredible red Canna Lily (Canna indica L.), there is mostly brown earth in the background. I took this photo in Costa Maya, Mexico. The flower is difficult to describe. It is so uniformly red it's difficult to discern between the flower's petals. There appears to be two large roundish petals hanging downward and two upwards with the edge folded over. There are three, not yet completely bloomed lilies rolled and pointed upwards behind the flower.
\"Canna or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species.[2][3][4][5] Cannas are not true lilies, but have been assigned by the APG II system of 2003 to the order Zingiberales in the monocot clade Commelinids, together with their closest relatives, the gingers, spiral gingers, bananas, arrowroots, heliconias, and birds of paradise.\" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_%28plant%29")
@Swede1952 Social media is full of people who want to rain on other people's parades. IRL there are social consequences for being a pill. Here, not so much. So people do it and reveal far too much about themselves which they'd be better off if they didn't. In short, they drop their pants and wonder why people think they're a**es.
The bright side is that it gave me something to write about this morning. I usually sit for a while staring at my computer wondering what to talk about.
@Swede1952 Yes, some people seem to just wait for being able to post negative stuff. Unfortunately. You know you can mute someone.
Mute and block are measures that I save for special occasions. There are some people out there who become so obsessed with a certain point that they continue to go on and on. They are deserving of special treatment.
For your run of the mill isolated negativity, I usually just don't respond.
Otherwise, I try to respond to every comment, maybe just a happy face. 
@Swede1952 I agree, I am doing it the same way.
@Swede1952
Brilliant red, captured so beautifully. These are the things unique to earth-life. Thank you.
@NoctisEqui
My pleasure 
@Swede1952 Nice. I'm always disappointed with the way digital photography represents reds, however. They always seem a little off. A little too orangey.
Thanks Ned! I usually use Lightroom to tweak the photos.