I'm not a professional photographer, and I've never been to exotic foreign lands. But I am an amateur bird-watcher, starting in my own backyard. I am often to be found in our kitchen, peering out the sliding glass door, watching to see who shows up at our two bird-feeders (one seed feeder and a suet-feeder). …
Category: Nature
See what showed up on my front walk this morning
I thought to myself: Aren't you pretty? So I turned it over. Pretty fall colors. Life's simple pleasures.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #117: A Photo Walk on Dungeness Spit
In May of 2019, I took a little driving vacation by myself, to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. One day, I went to one of my very favorite places in the world, the Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge. I have been there dozens of times, and every time I see something new. The path …
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Instant Halloween!
This morning when I went out the front door to walk across the street to our mailbox, I noticed that our neighborhood was shrouded in fog. We have a pear tree in the yard, and on my way back home I noticed that it was shrouded in spider webs, made more visible by the fog-deposited …
The Mammoth Site
On our South Dakota trip, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Mammoth Site, near the town of Hot Springs. For some reason, we thought that there were probably few people at the Hot Springs that day. Here's why. That's what WeatherBug told me. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that the site of …
Lens-Artists Challenge #116: Symmetry. It’s hard-wired.
In my graduate studies in Psychology, one unit we studied was "interpersonal attractiveness". The professors at my university had done numerous studies of what makes a person attractive. They asked thousands of study subjects to rate photographs of various people, male and female, young and old. There are many dimensions to attractiveness, and different people …
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Autumn is Here! Watch the Dancing Leaf!
This little video was taken through my second-floor bedroom window, looking down on a vine maple tree in the backyard. The leaf in the lower center looks like it is dancing in the air. Can you figure out how that leaf stays in the air?
Scenes from South Dakota
On September 1, my Hubby and I got into our car, and drove to South Dakota, for a Ricochet meetup with members from all over the US. Our drive took us through Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota finally. It was an uneventful drive, and the scenery we saw was spectacular. We …
South Dakota Teaser
Here are a couple of things we saw on our trip to South Dakota. I am writing this from the car so cannot do much detail. Mammoth bones Seen all over South Dakota More later.
Dispatch from South Dakota
September 5, 2020. Weather report ‘nuff said.
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