I spent a big chunk of last weekend sitting in some gnarly vegetation and being chewed on by mosquitoes–one of which bit my butt somehow–and this posting is the result. The other result was scratching my butt all week, but let’s move on. The swan story goes like this: once upon a time a mute swan I […]
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This time of year, I’m in a bigger hurry than usual to get home after work, because this is the time of year that colorful birdies stop in my yard before continuing north. Some birdies only stop for a few hours, others stick around for a few days. And even though they eat food from my trees and
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While I was focused on getting that Jag out of the left side of our garage, there was a lot going on in the Great Outdoors. Amazingly, a female mallard found a great nesting spot. Right outside the left side of the garage. You might not be able to see the hen mallard on her nest, so here’s
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Just when I was getting really, really, really sick of wintry weather, I awoke to find something absolutely breathtaking on the windshield of my car. I shot the photo with Mark’s point-and-shoot camera before sitting in my car for a moment to contemplate things. I was at once bummed that I had to scrape the window and go
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Many of you missed Alma College’s First *Algae Art Gallery Showing and probably shouldn’t have because it’s not every day that someone takes beautiful photographs of algae, and it’s even less every day that someone has such photographs as part of a college art gallery. In fact, Mark and I figured there wasn’t another other
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My last blog posting featured my first barred owl, and I was pretty happy about my barred owl photo until I took a former friend out to my happy photo grounds and he one-upped me by getting this shot. Now, I was standing in the same wood lot as Roger on the same late afternoon 300 feet
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So I had one of those days in my cubicle on Wednesday where nothing went terribly wrong and nothing went perfectly right and I left feeling rather numb and indecisive about pretty much everything. So I walked the dogs, and, since that didn’t “blow the stink off me” as Mark affectionately refers to my daily
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What amazes me about winter storms is that critters still manage to find a way to get by. Of course, some critters have it easier than others. Like this mourning dove. The snow was coming down and the bird landed on the deck railing–which I brushed off now and again during the storm–and he just
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Taking a Nikon D300 with a 80-400mm zoom lens is not the easiest way to cross country ski around the Lake Lansing Park area, but the additional weight does increase the amount of exercise involved and allows me to capture scenes like this: And like this: The thing is, there’s more deer out there. And
Once upon a time, there was a male mute swan. Now, a lot of people don’t like mute swans because they’re not native. But my lake is surrounded with condos and houses, has very little habitat, and I’ve seen one flock of native swans in the 16 years I’ve been here . . . and they
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