A Slice of Coincidental Seagull

This past Friday, for Poetry Friday, I posted a beautiful poem that Keri Collins Lewis wrote for me as part of a Summer Poetry Swap that Tabatha Yeatts organizes. She sent me this wonderful poem placed on a picture of a seagull soaring. Both picture and poem were special to me. Part of the reason is that I'd fairly recently begun collecting some "things seagull" to put in our retirement home, Gull Haven , across the road from the ocean. I posted my pictures of seagulls that inhabit my current home (still very close to the sea) just after the Keri's poem. One of the comments on the post that day was from Linda Baie . In her comment she stated, "I'm going to send a picture to you of a sea gull perched on a piling (I think) that I found in an antique shop when I was on the Chesapeake Bay with my students. I collect little iron animals, this was a lovely "find"." Then she emailed me this picture, below, of her seagull find: He