We've had some extreme winter weather here in northeast Ohio. For the past two months, the river that runs through the park where I take my regular photo walks has been frozen over. This is what it looked like earlier this month: Pretty dramatic, isn't it? One Sunday morning in December, we discovered that an …
Shucks! I know I’m cute!
Is that a cute little chickadee, or what? I'm doing a little experimenting again. Still trying to post from my March SmugMug gallery to this blog. I chose this little bird as the picture to post. It worked, but they don't make it easy. It's so easy to post to facebook and twitter. Why not …
Power tower sunset
At the end of my late afternoon walk, I was blessed by this beautiful sunset. The two smokestacks on the far distant right are part of an electric utility plant that sits right on the Lake Erie shoreline. At an estimate it is approximately a mile, as the crow flies, from where I was standing to the …
A quartet of chickadees
Chickadees love peanuts, and they are very friendly birds. Look what flew in when I spread a handful on the old tree stump. Throughout the summer and well into fall, there was plenty of available food for the birds. Since the vegetation has died back, they have found a supplemental food source. Humans!
Gone to seed!
This milkweed pod has gone to seed, which only increases its beauty. I'm just wondering why the expression Gone to seed is considered an insult when describing a person?
Autumn uncovered!
I visited Brecksville Reservation in search of fall foliage a few weeks ago and look what I found! Lovely, isn't it?
Making her escape
If you saw an 8-point buck heading your way, wouldn't you run too? I would, if it looked like this! I saw four of these fierce looking fellows on the trail today. The does wanted nothing to do with them. Nada! Nothing! Can you blame them?
Me hungry? You bet!
Me hungry? You bet!, a photo by skip22037 on Flickr.This little yellow fluffball and his identical twin were dabbling in the bog at Chagrin River Park with their momma and siblings. He paddled in my direction, and I captured this picture. Here are two more pictures of the little family: The family included two little …
Eastern towhee
2013_05_19_nature_022.jpg, a photo by skip22037 on Flickr.Finally captured a picture of the towhee that I have been looking for since I first heard its "Drink your tea" call a month or more ago. And he's celebrating with a song!
Spring has gone missing!
I wonder where it went and when it will return? Last week we were basking in sunshine and wonderfully warm days. Trees and flowers burst into blossoms. I saw an oriole, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and a few ducklings on the bog. And I concluded that the long (very long) and slow (very slow) winter were …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 