Photo of the day

Nature – wild nature- dwells in gardens just as she dwells in the tangled woods, in the deeps of the sea, and on the heights of the mountains; and the wilder the garden, the more you will see of her. (Herbert Revenel Sass) Coopers Hawk, finishing up a meal on the edge of my backyard […]

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Domestic flower terrorist in training, deep in thought.

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(edit – 8.10.12) Looking at a book about the Rio Grande Valley I  found the name of this creature – Flame Skimmer dragonfly. I took the weekend off from the mountain, worked around the house, did some studying, swam and relaxed. This morning I had a visitor and since he seemed to be willing to […]

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After being in New Mexico for 6 fall seasons I can say that it’s pretty hard to find much red in our trees.  The usual color is yellow, and occasionally we get some orange, but you can generally rule out the bright reds of the sugar maples found in the midwest and northeast. Occasionally however, […]

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I’ve been shooting this flower over the past several days  and I have been trying to get the “perfect” bee shot – but that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, there is this – in the golden hour. And then there is at least this bee from earlier in the day.

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and another

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Bunches in this group – and they will look great for this series – and since there are so many – I’m going to post only a couple a day. The location is from The Flower Fields – and there are flowers everywhere this time of year, including the parking lot where the above set […]

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Still working on seeing just what the capabilities of the new camera are, especially in the area of the zoom and the macro zoom. The only problem this day is that there were serious winds blowing during the entire time I was trying to shoot – so these are just a placemark among the memories […]

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We keep moving months and I keep delaying on posting images – so I suppose I may just have to go back and put some in out of sequence. But this date has rolled over and it’s September. Summer’s back is broken, soon the cool air of fall will be here, along with the yellow […]

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