Models Are Made…
I don’t photograph people much because I am not all that good at it. But this video explains things I never really thought about… Have a look… Now you know… Go read the blog post
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More Spring Colors
These are the colors out my backdoor on this cool, dreary, sunless spring morning. Some Of these birds were unknown (and unseen by me) to me before today. Even the Cedar Waxwings have only been seen a handful of times in the past. Here we have what appear to be Orchard Orioles. I at …
A Grosbeak Weekend
It all started Friday evening. Sherry was home from work and we were both in the office readin emails when I glanced out and spotted a “new” bird… It was accompanied by a dark blue bird that I took to be the male Indigo Buntings we had been seeing for a few …
Loose Change from Jim Dollar: Home Is Where The Heart Is Welcome No Matter How Different It Might Be
Oneness is not agreement. Like minds like to sleep at different room temperatures and take different approaches to entering meditation. What are the things we all need to agree to? What are the things we can be free to do differently? It’s important to agree about what we can disagree …
Nash Prairie Preserve
I went to a seed collecting day at the Nash Prairie Preserve in Brazoria County last Friday. While I will be writing a post about the trip shortly, I have spent today updating my Nash Prairie Gallery at Mountain Dreams Photography. Here is a slideshow of the images I have …
Hummingbird Entertainment
The hummingbirds continue to entertain us each day. We have never had the numbers we are seeing this year. Here are a few shots I took last week at one of the back feeder’s
The View From My Desk
This is what I see every time I look up from the keyboard for the past couple of weeks. It’s almost enough to have me singing along with the “Boss”… Listen to more Bruce Springsteen at Wolfgang’s Vault.
Fall In My Backyard
Last week my backyard looked like this as the sun came up… This week, under overcast skies, it looks like this… We are still seeing more green out back than most places around here. In fact, we are seeing more green than we have seen since last year. Related …
December Apples
I figured when I saw blooms back at the end of September there was a chance I would see apples yet this year. All it took was for the heat to break and the rains to start falling and here you see what I discovered today…Baby apples. Not a lot. …
Tall-Grass Triumph – The Nash Prairie
Thats why the Nash Prairie matters so much. As Chronicle reporter Matthew Tresaugue reported Tuesday “Life abounds at states last surviving bit of coastal prairie,” Page B1, July 26, the 400-plus acres of never-plowed land in Brazoria County remained pristine by historical accident: The Czech and German immigrants who first …
Spring Road Trip
I decided to take a lunch run across the river a week or so ago. After eating my sack lunch with another eastern bluebird I wandered over to the nature trail…This is one of the shots I captured…
Happy Turkey Day
Blue Ridge Mountain Wild Turkey Chick Summer 2004 Here’s wishing all of you a great day of Thanks Giving.
The End Of A Mountain Vacation
I didn’t post anything after Friday morning because most of the time since was spent driving from place to place and then home…All with the beginnings of a nasty touch of a bug. A Floyd Friday Friday morning I relearned a lesson I learn every trip to the mountains. It always takes …
Rushed This Morning
Yesterday we moseyed around till noon and then went to Linville for lunch before heading up Grandfather Mountain for the afternoon. This morning we are heading out early for a day trip into Virginia and meetings with some of my “Blog Buddies”. So here is all I have to offer …