Category: Nature Photography
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The Last Hummingbird
We had our last hummingbird of the season at our new home earlier this month. But what a season it was – shorter than we had in NC, but incredibly active. Read more…
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How To Love This World
Last weekend we took a long awaited canoe-camping trip to Shoshone Lake in the southern part of Yellowstone. It’s touted as the largest backcountry lake in the lower 48 states. It can only be reached by foot or non-motorized boat. We chose that route: a paddle across Lewis Lake then up the three mile long Read more…
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Exploring the Beartooth Mountains
We finally escaped to the Beartooths for some camping and wildlife-watching after three busy months of unpacking and family visits. Read more…
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Snow Birds
Winter perches like a bird. Wings tucked in so the soul is heard. ~Angie Weiland-Crosby Another nice snowfall (it has been many years since I could utter that phrase around these parts). We probably got about 3 inches here and it was a nice fluffy snow (prepping us for our upcoming move to Montana no Read more…
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Dog Days
Now came the dog days – day after day of hot, still summer, when for hours at a time light seemed the only thing that moved… ~Richard Adams The last week has provided a nice break from the typical heat and humidity of this time of year, the so-called dog days of August. Historically, the Read more…
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Fly Like an Eagle
I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly. ~John Denver A couple of weeks ago I made a trip over to the B. Everett Jordan Dam about 25 minutes from our house. I had seen a lot of images recently on social media of the Bald Eagles that tend Read more…
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A New Year, and New Happenings in the Woods
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~Vernon Howard The first days of the new year have brought a few more surprises and lessons from the trail cameras scattered in our woods. Several cameras have remained in one spot for many months because they tend to record Read more…
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Wrapping It Up In Our Woods
Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories. ~Munia Khan Our woods offer a lot of things to us – a quiet soundscape, a canopy of huge trees that help cool our landscape in summer, majestic gray forms that stretch to the winter sky, and a source of nourishment and shelter for the countless Read more…
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Night Flashes
Life begins at night. ~ Charlaine Harris It’s not just moths that I have been seeing out in the yard after dark. The new flash system has been out on a few nights with me as I wander the premises (carefully in case there are any Copperheads out and about) looking for what’s happening on Read more…
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Flash Mob, Part 2
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. ~Stephen Hawking I returned Friday from a few days helping out my mom in the mountains of Virginia and have been slugging around the house and yard trying to Read more…
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