James Brubaker

Dave Wrote: Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. We have had a very hot summer here. Not getting out much. Then  we had severe thunder storms and a tornado hit Rome, NY. We’re OK it missed us. We just have a  lot of trees down all thru our property. I’ll get them cut up when it cools down some.  Here  are some pictures of a male Scarlet Tanager we found this morning.  Dave

DAVE 07 22 2024

DAVE 07 22 2024

DAVE 07 22 2024

DAVE 07 22 2024

I wrote:  My Daughter, Heather, sent me the beautiful photo of the dog staring into space at the beach – I had to give her a girl dog to stare at!

07 22 2024 HAB Staring into space at dogs only beach

07 22 2024 JEB- Staring at the girls on dogs only beach

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE –Go to the beach where you can stare into space and return relaxed.

I waited for this guy to leave before I started my bike ride!😏 – he is safe.

JEB 07 18 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE –Smile when you encounter nature in places not expected!

Just playing around – The frogs were in my daughter’s pond – all looking one way – I gave the a reason to look. The cloud-man was pointing – I gave him something to point at.

JEB 07 16 2024

JEB 07 16 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE –Take a photo just to save and play around with! It will make you laugh.

Dave wrote:  Hi Jim,  This  is the dead time of year for bird photography. Birds are mostly done nesting. They move to wooded areas to molt their feathers and are not very visible. Of course they are mostly not singing. Here are  some pictures of a Wilson’s Snipe in Amish farm country north of Utica NY.  Also a Red-tailed Hawk in the same area.   Dave

07 14 2024 Dave

07 14 2024 Dave

07 14 2024 Dave

07 14 2024 Dave

I wrote: Memories are a good reason to take photographs. Three years ago I had the opportunity to travel to the house I was born in and take this photograph. It is an image I saw each of my first 7,300 days on earth! – well, each season it was a little different.

JEB 07 14 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE –Take a photo just to save a memory.

I love watching the elusive otter in Michigan – Here in Florida they are not quite as elusive.  I caught this guy on the canal between Beehive Way and Oak Cove.  Sleek & graceful, he looks like a giant Caterpillar moving at breakneck speed – If you play “Nature Detective” you will see a path in front of him – a telltale sign that he and his family have been here before.

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – On your next walk or your next look out the window, play “Nature Detective” – Beleive me, it is better then watching re-runs of some TV detective series!

Research shows that our brain’s emotional center responds to adorable animal images.  At night, while out on my bike, I see dozens of animals. They touch my emotional center for sure!  Sometimes I only get a glimpse before they dash off as this cat did on the cart path near Dragonfly Drive. If it is someone’s pet cat I hope it found its way home.

JEB -07 07 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – enrich your life with images of animals – be a photographer of nature.

Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. I have sent you pictures of Virginia  Rails before. I never shot a juvenile Virginia. Here are some pictures of a juvenile Virginia Rail plus one of an adult. Taken in one of our favorite swamps.  Dave

07 05 2024 Dave Cesari

07 05 2024 Dave Cesari

07 05 2024 Dave Cesari

07 05 2024 Dave Cesari

07 05 2024 Dave Cesari

I love this Wild Petunia – Each evening at 4-5:00 it shed the flowers and then by 8:00 the next morning another dozen flowers bloom.  Also, I noticed last night,  3 branches had about 6″ nipped off – the nipped off pieces was laying on the ground and they were not chewed.  I am thinking a fawn was testing things to eat – tested the petunia and decided it was not good to eat – what do you think did the nipping?

JEB 07 25 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE –study the things that happen over night in nature and try to figure what was going on in the dark of night.

May I suggest you take a parade break and smell the roses or petunias!

JEB 07 04 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Stop and smell the roses!

There is always a food chain!

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Stop sometimes, sit by a window, or on your porch and see if you can photograph a food chain in action.

I wrote:  I love the internet and making these photos.  The internet is like a black hole that I follow my leaders into.  In my case, the learders are on-line PhotoShop, web-sites of my banks, my health insurance, spectrum, doctors, and dozens of other webpages I spend hours viewing and working with while managing life.

JEB 06 24 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Realize we are not alone – we are all driven by the internet these days!