Fort Lauderdale, Florida — Original Photography

As a bird and ocean lover, I consider myself especially fortunate to live only 5 minutes away from the beach.

Here, are some seagulls sunbathing & taking to flight on a picture-perfect day:

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

—from "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Photography: Yahia Lababidi