Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are a few pictures from yesterday at my  feeder set ups for shooting birds.  Orioles and Grosbeaks have arrived. Feeling like spring here in upstate NY.  Dave

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari -Jim Speaking!:  Right up front I want to tell you I love this photo – Action, Personality, Communication, and more.  Can not get any better! Dave, you are fantastic!

– OK, I will post his other photos:

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari

05 07 2021 Dave Cesari

NOW FOR SOME OF MY THOUGHTS:

I love the outdoors – Morning, noon, night. And, I love photography in all of its forms.

Do you know in 1959 – over 60 years ago I owned – well managed – a photography darkroom for the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Pittsburgh.  As a brand new instructor at the University, I taught students to photograph and analyze layouts and procedures in machine shops and hospitals to change layouts and procedures to get better performance.  The idea was to look for ways to reduce wasted movements and do only those procedures that were productive in the most economical way.  

WOW! That use of photography is a long way from the TGO Photo Club – Here we help folks enjoy their retirement years thru the hobby of photographing nature, and daily things around their TGO home, on the road at campgrounds, and their summer excursions up north – or wherever they go around the world.  I have had the opportunity to see special nature shots in Denmark, Germany, Paris, and many more places around the world but non so relaxed and beautiful as shooting photos in my home in TGO Florida.

Here are a few scenes of the type I am fortunate enough to see most ever day during my bike trips around our TGO community:

Think about a 4 foot rattle in the middle of the road heading for the bushes. Look how he blends in with the road surface.

This is not 4 footer – it is a pygmy rattler

Oh, not sure you saw him in the previous photo -now you see him -but he is well camouflaged

At night – under a street light – 20 feet to the north and he would be in pitch black – Oh my, I might have run over him with my bike – Yipes

Lunch at the Brubaker’s – on the screen of our screened porch lunch room

This poor guy got into a disagreement with a car or golf cart – but seems to have healed well and now has a new personnel profile – a cracked shell – I can tell him from all other ones I encounter

This guy just finished the front 9 – you golfers will understand what I just said!

What you think of the success of these bird houses by a lake in our great TGO community!

Then, can you beat a beautiful sunset like this?

As you swing thru life – I will say again – Enjoy your community – what ever your interest – especially if your are retired.