Dec 01
Posted: under Activities, photography, Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, fencing, native plants, observation, photography December 1st, 2011
In our house, fencing has two meanings: the stuff I do with swords (Renaissance style) and the stuff we both do with posts and wire and clamshell posthole diggers and shovels and so on. Often my husband works on fence alone. I have books to write. When he’s sick or injured, the fence projects languish…and […] [...more]
In our house, fencing has two meanings: the stuff I do with swords (Renaissance style) and the stuff we both do with posts and wire and clamshell posthole diggers and shovels and so on. Often my husband works on fence alone. I have books to write. When he’s sick or injured, the fence projects languish…and sometimes it’s just too hot to get out there.
Winter is a fine time to work on fence, and he’s been busy on the west end fence since some windstorms dropped trees on it.
Yes, there’s a fence under that limb nearest the camera.
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Jul 31
Posted: under Plantlife, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, observation, photography, Weather July 31st, 2010
Significant rain in July is uncommon, and we picked up inches and inches–after the very dry spring and early summer, this was a relief to us and to everything that lives on the place. Switchgrass head-high in July [...more]
Significant rain in July is uncommon, and we picked up inches and inches–after the very dry spring and early summer, this was a relief to us and to everything that lives on the place.
Switchgrass head-high in July
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Jul 01
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Water, Wildlife.
Tags: Animal behavior, beauty, dragonfly, insect, observation, odonates, photography July 1st, 2010
When I went out yesterday about noon, I found four of these lovely pink waterlily flowers open: [...more]
When I went out yesterday about noon, I found four of these lovely pink waterlily flowers open:
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May 24
Posted: under Activities, Climate Change, Water, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, amphibians, Animal behavior, beauty, documentation, observation, photography, wildlife management May 24th, 2010
Young Rana berlandieri with last of its tail showing. [...more]
Young Rana berlandieri with last of its tail showing.
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May 20
Posted: under photography, Wildlife.
Tags: Animal behavior, beauty, observation, photography, reptile behavior, snake May 20th, 2010
If you’re one of the people who hate and fear all snakes, this might be a moment to remind yourself that this one is merely an image in the computer, as well as a small, slender, agile reptile that is harmless to us humans. [...more]
If you’re one of the people who hate and fear all snakes, this might be a moment to remind yourself that this one is merely an image in the computer, as well as a small, slender, agile reptile that is harmless to us humans.
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Apr 27
Posted: under photography, Wildlife.
Tags: Animal behavior, observation, odonates, photography April 27th, 2010
Back on April 20, I happened to see a dragonfly, just out of its nymphal exoskeleton, clinging to the stone border of the lily pond. An hour earlier and I could have photographed the whole sequence, but I have a partial sequence. [...more]
Back on April 20, I happened to see a dragonfly, just out of its nymphal exoskeleton, clinging to the stone border of the lily pond. An hour earlier and I could have photographed the whole sequence, but I have a partial sequence.
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Apr 24
Posted: under Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, insect, observation, photography April 24th, 2010
Always fun to find a new (to us) species for the list, even when it’s a small assassin bug: [...more]
Always fun to find a new (to us) species for the list, even when it’s a small assassin bug:
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Mar 14
Posted: under photography, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, bird behavior, observation, photography March 14th, 2010
Spring is one of our busiest bird seasons, with winter residents often still around, spring migrants moving through, year-rounders breeding, and the first of the summer residents showing up. [...more]
Spring is one of our busiest bird seasons, with winter residents often still around, spring migrants moving through, year-rounders breeding, and the first of the summer residents showing up.
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Feb 11
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Water, Weather, Wildlife.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography, rain, seasons, Weather February 11th, 2010
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Feb 05
Posted: under photography, Plantlife, Water.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography February 5th, 2010
At the end an hour slogging around a very wet, running-water-wet field as the sun gets low, you might wonder why you didn’t go back before now. Then you look down and there it is…the first one this spring. The sheer audacity of it–that determined stem, those leaves reaching for sunlight, and then that fragile, […] [...more]
At the end an hour slogging around a very wet, running-water-wet field as the sun gets low, you might wonder why you didn’t go back before now. Then you look down and there it is…the first one this spring. The sheer audacity of it–that determined stem, those leaves reaching for sunlight, and then that fragile, pale pink flower.
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