The blur of his tail feathers shows this birds rudder control – I took us humans a long time to figure out the science of flight control.
Big rain drops and plants frame the bird
The nose. See the science of digging for food. You can tell how deep he digs.
The Camera saw
I saw
The camera saw
I saw
The camera saw
I saw
The camera saw
I saw
As you swing through life, enjoy nature as the camera sees it – then allow yourself the time to daydream and see what you can see – it is fun to do that!
Nature as I saw it in the last day or two here in TGO – well all but the first photo – my Granddaughter took it in NYC.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada.
Are they talking about keeping off the grass in the lawn?
A storm out my back door.
Same storm – just a close-up to see the big drops.
Hardy tree on Plantation Drive growing horizontally. I think it was pushed over in a past hurricane.
Mom says “Come on. Stay up with me – You have seen people before.”
Beauty of the pattern of this moth on my chair’s arm?
I think he is evaluating my golf practice swing.
As you swing through life, enjoy nature and stop to take a photo so that you can look at it again – from you evening chair.
For some reason God gave me the beautiful ability to see things others might not catch. Every scene in nature I wonder- why the tree has bark like that, why the bird has red eyes, why, why. Then sometimes the things I see only pass through my mind as walk or ride on reflecting – Like a strange dream the image might make no sense – but like a dream I enjoy the images. I will show you a few examples just for fun:
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors – Now we know why he/she crossed the road!
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
As you swing through life smile at the things of nature.
Dave Wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. The warbler family is my favorite family of birds. The Canada Warbler is one of my favorites in the warbler family. Here are some pictures of a Canada Warbler I took yesterday.A beautiful bird. Dave
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You know I see many many things of life that for some reason I just have to grab my camera and snap it. Then in my quiet time, days later, I bring those snapshots up on my computer and enjoy what I saw.
See if you enjoy these. Now the deer is not PhotoShopped into the bed of that truck – it was really there, maybe the deer just needed a ride. The rainbow colors, the reflected sky, the floatation, the alligator were all in the view I saw from the bridge. “Loving thyself rocks” was just an interesting name for a business – so I had to snap it. I adjusted my eyes correctly and I saw the car in front of the motor home as being painted with a pattern. Anyway, each of these are what I call loving life photographs – I see many each day – I think my phone has 20,000 such images.
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As you swing through life smile at the things of life – maybe even laugh out loud. Then, grab your phone and snap a view for your own enjoyment during one of your quiet times in the future.
Dave Wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. The spring migration here in the Rome, NY area is just about non- existent. The neo-tropical insectivores are almost gone. They are the warblers,tanagers. thrushes and orioles. For someone like me who is really into birding and bird photography it is very depressing.Here are some pictures of birds at my feeder set up. That is about the only area where we are seeing any birds. Dave
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The Great Outdoors is a great place to see animals – some very wild and some sort-of used to people. I do send this message to you – enjoy them but be careful. Keep the Great Outdoors the Great Outdoors as long as we can.
Now days I have time to go out and about to look for animals. I often use my iPhone camera to snap what I see. Here are three snapshots:
I love snakes. I was thinking this is one of the most beautiful Pygmies I have ever seen – shinny, as large as I have seen, and tail rattling just like a Rattler should do. I was also thinking, “Why did he take off like a Racer as I jumped off my bike? Most often they do not move so rapidly.”
I am afraid I did not respect this guys space as I should have. I walked up to him, talking all the while as if I was talking to a human – “How has your day been? Did you find some good food for lunch?” He/she looked at me as if we were old friends. As you can see by its posture, now, I was invading its space. Off it flew – in disgust with me, I am sure. But I enjoy watching any bird in flight – it is a mystery to me how they can fly.
Did not have to go far to see this. WOW – Three good sized gators right off my back porch! I wonder what each of these four animals were thinking – I am sure they each knew of the whereabouts of the other three. I think the bird on the far shore was singing “Praise the Lord, I saw the Gators” – It flew off shortly after I snapped this photo.
As you swing through life, be with nature, enjoy nature, and be careful – Maybe try to think about what the animal is thinking.
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, It has been a cold wet spring here in upstate NY. I haven’t been out in my blind to photograph Wood Ducks very much. It has been mostly dark and wet. I did get out a few times when we had some sun. Here are a few shots of Woodies plus a shot of the permanent blind we built a few years ago on one of the ponds behind our property. Dave
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You know, Spring is my favorite time of year. I try to spend hours outside where ever I may be. In Florida it harder to know when spring starts and winter ends than many places I hav been in spring, but plants and the animals knows when it is spring.
Plants show flowers, grass is growing , and animals are out and about. I captured, with my iphone camera, a few of the many I see each day. Not all are as artistically beautiful as the Wood Duck but they are all fun to see and enjoy:
CURIOUS – I see you, you see me – sounds like a country western song title
DINNER – This rushing run-off water is this birds fishing ground – all day long he/she is there – I did not weigh it but I bet it gained a few pounds.
CURIOUS – Why do they grow in circles?
FRESH – A composition of contrasts in shapes and color.
GRACE – Nest time you see one of these, watch them slide across the road, study not the snake but study it’s movements – Should be a Broadway Show of dancers – Pure grace
THESE TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS ARE A VIEW OF PRE-HISTORY – You might say they are ugly – but I love to watch their determination to get where ever it is they are heading for. Only they know where that is maybe they are just out sightseeing, maybe looking for food, maybe looking for a partner, maybe I do not know!
PRETTY – Just a baby and I think it is pretty
NOT A BABY,- HUNGRY, ANGRY, MEAN – I do not know which. Only he/she knows – BUT IF YOU ARE IN GATOR COUNTRY, BE CAREFUL – STAY AWAY FROM THEM – THEY ARE FAST AND IF ONE GETS HOLD OF YOU THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET AWAY – DONATE TO HIM THE ARM OR LEG HE GRABBED! This smaller gator was swimming around not long before I snapped this photo. Then the fight began. As you can see he no longer is swimming around and he did give up a leg to no avail. Sorry I had to insert such a gruesome photo. I wanted to enhance your view of the natural world in order to encourage you to be careful.
As you swing through life, enjoy nature, be careful, and remember animals live by different rules than we do.
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Spring has gotten here in upstate NY. We went to a big swamp near where we live. We had an American Bittern come out. Here are a few shots. Bitterns are very secrative and hard to see. We feel lucky to see and photograph one. Many birders never do see one. We know where we can find them with a little luck. Dave
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I took a photo of a thistle with dew and here is what I got
April view
As you swing through life, add a passion for birds, wild animals and add time to step up to your window or go outside and study them and where they live – study their secret hideaway
Dave Wrote: Hi Jim, here are some pictures for the blog. We have a Bald Eagle’s nest 3 or 4 miles from where we live. Here are some pictures of both the male and female at the nest. The female seems to be sitting on eggs. The male is usually somewhere near by. The last picture is by our grand daughter who we just set up with a camera and lens. She is so excited she can hardly stand it. That is the fun of being a grand parent. Dave
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As you swing through life, enjoy sharing your activities with a young person – then smile as you drift off to sleep – knowing it was a job well done.
I Wrote: I lost these photos and Dave had to remind me – I am sure glad I found them – No one can make me enjoy a snowy day in up-state New York the way Dave and his photos do. Hope you enjoy them that much too:
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Yesterday was a snowy, stormy day here in upstate NY. Our feeders were very active all day. I had to trudge out in the snow to refill them several times. Dave
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“Where did I put those keys?” … “What was it I wanted when I opened the frig door?” … What was that phone number I just looked up?” I just was not focusing.
As I get older this happens to me more often. So, to help me practice focusing, I use street photography as one of my hobbies. When out on the street looking to photo people doing interesting things, I need to focus.
In the next three photos I was focusing on people that were focusing. Of course they were in their own world, so I did not know what they were focusing on.
I added Dave’s Cardinal, so that when you viewed my photos you would have something that you thought they were focusing on. Ha Ha!
What was the driver focused on
I love NYC streets for photography. But to find this lady focusing was a special find.
At the airport – people focused in their own world – another special find.
Now you know how I practiced focusing by focusing on those that were focusing!
As you swing through life, sprinkle a little snow on the view out your window even if it is sunny and 90 degrees – that is also a beautiful way to enjoy snow.
I Wrote: I lost these photos and Dave had to remind me – I am sure glad I found them – No one can make me enjoy a snowy day in up-state New York the way Dave and his photos do. Hope you enjoy them that much too:
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Yesterday was a snowy, stormy day here in upstate NY. Our feeders were very active all day. I had to trudge out in the snow to refill them several times. Dave
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As you swing through life, sprinkle a little snow on the view out your window even if it is sunny and 90 degrees – that is also a beautiful way to enjoy snow.
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