Dave has done so much for this blog. I am working to get a better clickable menu in place (In the left side bar here or maybe in the menu on your cell phone). Let me know what you think.
Dave’s photos are outstanding and his messages regarding the habits of the birds in our life gives us insights we only find here on this blog. The improved menu should help you go back over time to see his postings of the past.
He also points out about the decline in bird population. Audubon’s websites are a place to read about the details of the decline and what you can do about it.
For this posting Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. This is my latest set up. Worked on it today. A nice day here 66 degrees F. Blue Jays, a Chickadee and a White breasted Nuthatch. Dave
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Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A Red-throated Loon. This bird is an adult just starting it’s molt into winter or non-breeding plumage. In winter plumage they are basically black and white. Red-throated Loons breed in the high Arctic. They winter off the Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They can also be found on the Great Lakes in winter. I have seen them on Lake Ontario in winter. It is quite unusual to have one in the Rome, NY area. This bird was on the Barge Canal about 3 miles from our house. It was fun to see and photograph it in mostly breeding plumage as we have never seen that before. Dave
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I want move your eyes from this quite unusual Loon in the Rome, NY area to a rather usual animal in our TGO Florida. But even if this guy isa common site in and around the lake behind our house he/she is always fun to see and photograph.
That smile suggest he/she is looking for a friendly dog or squirrel to share lunch with. I used the 3x lens on my iPhone and a little photoshop to get this close to his lunch table.
09 01 2022 Hidden LakesAs you swing through life, do as Dave says – grab your camera and have fun shooting the Loon in your area – even if you have to substitute that Loon with and Alligator, have fun with your camera!
Dave Wrote: Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A train and the RR tracks behind our property. See I can shoot something besides birds. Very slow here not much moving yet. aves
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I wrote: You do not know how wonderful Dave’s photos were for me? They triggered memories. One of the first times I got off the homestead farm I grew up on, was when I was sent to first grade in a one-room school house, at age six, in a little coal mining town in the hills of southern Pennsylvania.
Think I cried for the whole first month. Then, I found the coal trains going right along the school play yard – Rather than play ball with kids I did not know, I would sit by the tracks and watch the trains roll by – wave at the engineers. I think it was the start of my years of travel lust. That joy of travel never ended – all because of those trains!
I think that must be me on the bank – right next the that smoke belching traveling machine!Dave has trains in his back yard – Here in TGO we have friendly deer – I counted nearly 20, near the Rally Lot, one evening when I was out on my bike! A good promo for TGO – The Great Outdoors.As you swing through life – Do something new – Dave did and triggered in me a fun memory. Of course Mom and Dad forced me to do something new – go to first grade!
Don’t forget to look at yesterday’s post by clicking “OLDER POSTS” at the bottom of this page: August 19, 2022 Dave Cesari, Photoshop, and Politics – That word Politics ought to get your attention!
But first look at this – I love seeing the intellect of these guys – He/she made some quick decisions about how to get under the fence – Knew quickly he/she needed to move on up the fence line.
As you swing through life – get off from time to time and walk in the outside world – like a Nature Trail or a Lake Shore or a Rails-To-Trails bike path
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. An immature male Yellowthroat. Yellowthroats are members of the warbler family. Also Cardinals male and female at my feeder set up. This is the slow time for bird photography. Hopefully it will improve as fall gets closer. Dave
In my last posting here I spoke of PhotoShop and recording memories – another subject I enjoy thinking about is politicians – not as candidates but as a person working their way through a career as we all did in our 20’s through some future year (Our working years). I like to read about how they studied, practiced, and worked at being successful as as person in a career. Well, Thomas and John have always been fun to read about and that reading made me jump onto PhotoShop just for fun:
Political debate in 1800 when things were slow – John and Thomas – Thomas won!
I was thinking about the speed of technological change and how it impacts me even before my eyes are fully open at my breakfast hot coffee.
Every morning on TV, the politicians are fighting it out for the mid-term’s – often miss-using events that happened overnight. But think about how it was 200 years ago before TV, cell phones, internet, and even before postal service. How many days dit it take to transport a letter from Virginia to Massachusetts – and who would transport that letter? Politicians had to fight with old information – but they did fight just like today.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826.
Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83— They had been rivals, indeed enemies, for some time; Jefferson had defeated Adams in the presidential election of 1800. But they had repaired their differences and had pursued active letter writing with each other years before their deaths.
On that final day, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Jefferson died at his home in Monticello, Virginia.
John Adams whispered his last words: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” But he was wrong – Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.
John Adams spoke without complete information! But in those days politicians had an excuse – Information flow was slow – it took days to move information from Monticello to Quincy. When John was on his death bed he could not wait that long to see if Tom was really surviving, so he spoke with what he assumed was correct!
As you swing through life, join me and study the politician as a person – it is fun – later on you can worry about his/her political position – if you see it as fun.
As my new phone, with the .5 lens, saw this flower by Lake Judy – It was my memory of Lake Judy this morning as I rode my bike by it.As PhotoShop saw the Lake Judy flower later in the day.As my old phone saw this memory momentAs PhotoShop saw the memory shot – OOPS where is the proud Mother?NOW PhotoShop fixed itAs you swing through life, keep that phone working – Snap many memories
I wrote: I can’t get over Daves photos – Look at the composition, the colors, the foreground/background, and of course study the beauty and body expression displayed by the birds. Enjoy them!
Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. Kind of a mixed bag. A Green Heron up in a tree in our woods. Two Wilson’s Snipe and some Morning doves at our feeders. We got some much needed rain today. That was good as my gardens needed a good watering. Dave
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I can not resist showing a few photos from my travels to Michigan and New Hampshire. I selected some photos of art that I saw along the way:
I call this horse a piece of historic art. My good friends Allen and Tess Hoey, (I kept my horses at their place on Drummond Island) donated this horse to the Betsey Seaman Museum – What is it you say? – It is a mannequin like a department store would use to display cloths except this mannequin was used to display the horse harness which they sold in their store.This is an art wall to me. In Keene New Hampshire is a store where the owner invites students to come in and play games like corn-toss, and small basket ball tossing competition and of course, feel free to write on the wall – His store is like a community center to give the kids a wholesome safe place to stop on the way home from school.And in Keene, some professional artist decorate the outside walls. – For Human & Animal RightsI really liked this art wall. The steps look real – I almost tried to walk up them- OOPS they are real – or – are they. What do you think? Very interesting how the artist handled the legs of the artist in the art.As you swing through life, remember Henry David Thoreau said: “Art is not what you look at that maters, it’s what you see.”
Dave Wrote: Hi Jim, This is the slow time of year for bird photography. The birds if there were any are off molting.
The populations of the neo-tropical insectivores are and have been disappearing at an alarming rate. This has been happening for several years but is now occurring at an accelerated rate. The neo-tropical insectivores are the warblers, tanagers, thrushes and orioles.
Here are some pictures of a Monarch butterfly on a bee balm flower at the patch in our yard. Dave
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I have been studying a lot these last couple of weeks. Trying to understand how the worldwide hosting systems work and how I can keep all these photos available for you to view years later. At the bottom of this page you see an opportunity to view previous post. Dave has posted his wonderful bird photos for what seems to be years now. I think I have it set up where you can keep going back over those photos.
I have also been studying things that I can do with those little 3 second videos that the iPhone creates every time I snap a photo. And, obviously I continue to play around with PhotoShop to create photos you are sure are real!
I don’t see a bear, do you see a bear down there in the woods?With all the locks they put on this fence, you would think I would know enough not to ride my bike in there. – Oh, by the way, where am I? Why is my hat in that bear’s lap?
I just got back from a trip through 4 airports, a trip up east cost on a week end, even stopping at a McDonalds for a lunch in the car while driving, and to NYC during rush hour (which as any hour in NYC I discovered).
I discovered we humans are great at standing in line to get what we want. Especially when we want to eat or travel.
By 49th street in NYC – Not exactly a food wagon line – It is really a WEED wagon line. But my point is we humans understand lines – We are actually friendly and orderly in most cases – as you can see folks visiting while waiting in line.Then, I came across these birds in our great TGO this afternoon – standing in line waiting for food not WEED – but the food was hiding in the weeds. – Those birds were very orderly waiting in line for their turn – I ‘spect we got our ability to tolerate waiting lines from the birds we my have descended from – what you think?As you swing through life, enjoy visiting with others waiting in line – and stay orderly in life!
We went to New Hampshire to enjoy Keene and the Rails-to-Trails, and each-other of course. Lots of laughs and fun experiences. Then to NYC, Then to New Jersey & New York to look at Real Estate – Heather Is an Agent, then to visit places I lived in and raised a family – starting over 60 years ago.
Oh my – We were young – Caroline changed – Sure grew up – Do you think I did?Mom is explaining to the dog what Caroline grew up – Look what she achieved!Rails to trails in New Hampshire – History on my cell phone! You see every time you take a photo you record historic stories – memories – ’cause that time will never reoccur – it is historyThe bear that turned out to me a tree stump and appropriate shadows – Family history of laughs on my cell phoneLook what we found – Family members that never learned to spell their name correctly – but their cookin’ was good. Lets get off the trail and have lunch!OK – Let’s go have happy hour and talk about the historic memories we had todayThen off to NYC – I enjoy NYC folks – great for Street PhotographyOrlando had lots of weather related travel delays and scenes like thisAs you swing thru life – Do not tell me you like looking at my photos of family trips or I my post some of the 500 more that I took!
