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!
A home with photo windows for each moment – A McRuellia (Wild Petunia) rabbit restaurant outside my breakfast window. A beautiful rainbow framing the Cypress outside my evening reading chair.
JEB 06 21 2024
JEB 06 21 2024
AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Think about it – The windows in your home become more important as you age and your energy to go outside may be reduced!
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, I haven’t sent you anything in a while. I have had problems with my laptop. Finaly got it straightened out. I have sent you pictures of the nesting Peregrine Falcons at the city of Utica.in the past. They have had another successful year. This is the 10th year nesting at the nest box on the 17th floor of the Adirondack Bank building. They fledged 3 young this season. Here are some pictures of the adults and young. Peregrin Falcons like most raptores the females are larger than the males. You can really see the difference in some of the flying shots. Dave
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
06 18 2024 Dave Cesari
I wrote: I have had little time to do Phot Art work – Here is one cloud art I like:
JEB 06 18 2024
AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Laugh through those challenges the digital machines give us modern folks .
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