I found these ladies hanging out by my garden. They didn’t really care for the camera pointed at them. Smart birds!
Safe to cross?
Photography
Just a few shots along the way…
Being different is beautiful
Freak of nature or just a survivor?
I have a stand of cattails growing beside my garden that I have blogged about in the past. They are just getting ready to blow their seeds and yesterday I noticed one really irregular looking cattail. As I came in for a closer look I realized it was one cattail that had split at the base and had somehow managed to join back together at the top. I can’t really figure out how this happened but in the process it now has three seed heads! To me it looks kinda like a cinnamon twist and was so beautiful I just had to try and preserve it and photograph it.
Welcome to the party!
I can’t help it. I think these birds are neat. They are called the New World Vulture and they are what naturally clean up our streets and fields when an animal dies. A friend of mind said these animals look mean. Perhaps if your only association with them is death then I can see how you can think that. If you think about it though they don’t kill so they can’t really be mean. They just clean up what’s left. These birds were eating the remains of some rabbit on the street when I slowly ventured near with my camera. As I came close they wondered if I was a predator – after all I was pointing a long gun like thing so who could blame them! As I crept closer I noticed how each bird looked out after the other. They didn’t fight over the tiny little rabbit. They just quietly ate and then backed away as another would share in the meager rode kill.
I’ll end with something on the other end of the size scale and perhaps a lot more mean 😉
Last light on a leaf
As I leave work at night the sun like to cast long shadows through the building.
I love how this leaf seems to be waving goodbye to the sun
Bits from our trip
We had an eventful trip overnight to Yosemite yesterday and here are a few photos. One of the things that was interesting was to harvest some wild elderberries. I have been looking for them because it’s been said that my little king bird likes them in their diet. I like elderberry jelly as well so here they were all ripe and ready for the eating! Or at least so I thought! A word of warning… cook the berries first and only have a few and DO NOT eat any of the stems. My mother and I both did and suffered from mild cyanide poisoning 🙁
A little evening drama
It started out as a clear hot day today leading into a dramatic evening. Always awe inspiring when nature gets bored.
A couple from fern spring
It was nice to go to Yosemite – a place I go to quite often and discover a little gem I haven’t seen before. It’s just a little spot along the side of the road called Fern Spring that runs all year round. Below are a couple shots taken with a tripod at ISO 100, F5.6 & .8 sec exposure to get the blurred water.
