The Thing About Ducks ...

found this pretty duck via a google search

There are lots and lots of different kinds of ducks, right? Look it up - there are well over a hundred different duck species.

And they're all ducks. There are a lot of some of them; not so many of others; but they're most assuredly all ducks.

When I have time I'll post photos of some of them, which will be a pleasure because they're so varied but all beautiful.

Me being me, I can't help noticing that North America has many, if not most, of those different ducks represented.

Because you know me, you know I'm  not just talking about ducks here.

A great organization called Ducks Unlimited has been working for a long time to protect and preserve habitat for all those ducks. 

The ducks need a safe place to live, to raise their young, and/or as stop-overs for when they're migrating to/from their nesting sites. That's what Ducks Unlimited is all about.

No I'm not a member of Ducks Unlimited (yet). For the moment that isn't the issue. Neither are the ducks themselves right at this particular time. They're important in and of themselves, of course, don't get me wrong here. 

But right now they're going to be representing something besides themselves. They're going to represent us - kind of.

Now, the ducks really do need basically the same things we do: safety, food, homes in which to live their lives. Ducks Unlimited works pretty darned hard to make sure they've got what they need, those ducks - ALL of those ducks, mind you, not just the mallards (for example). 

So, while for our purposes the ducks are going to represent us, Ducks Unlimited is going to represent our government, doing what it's supposed to do to protect and preserve us and what we need.

And that's just about where the 'representing' thing stops. Our ducks are NOT US. They have wings, for one thing. Neither is Ducks Unlimited our government. They do what they're supposed to be doing, what the whole organization was designed to do, giving it their best shot, for one thing.