Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Ruthi and I are back at the beach! Which is great for us, but raises an issue for producing an essay, since my pictures archives and my Lightroom software are on my desktop computer at home. This is one situation in which I can understand the attraction of having everything “in the cloud”! Sometimes in the past I have…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! From time to time, I have been asked what process I use to prepare an image for publication in these photo-essays. Several readers commented favorably on one of my hummingbird images from last week – one which I almost left out – and since it was also one which needed quite a lot of work, I thought it…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Last week I shared some pictures from our recent trip to the beach, and this week I offer some from here in Lansdowne Woods taken in the past few days since we got back home. Some of the species shown are old favorites from previous summers, but seeing them again seems very special to me, since there were…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Thank you to all of you who sent Ruthi and me good wishes for our long-overdue trip to the beach. We finally managed almost a week centered on the Easter weekend. Much to our relief our cottage, which nobody had entered since we left it at the end of last August, had suffered nothing worse than some shingles…
Monday Mimicry Pt.4 April 3, 2017 Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! In one sense, this week’s essay picks up from last week, because one of last week’s pictures included a Bumble Bee, and that’s where this week’s set starts. Pictures 1 thru 3 all feature Bumble Bees. In #1 you can see particularly well the long maxilla (tongue sheath), which the bee introduces…
Springy Monday March 27, 2017 Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! According to the calendar spring has arrived, but, with the exception of this past Saturday, the weather does not yet fully agree. Nevertheless, this set of pictures celebrates the season, using images from previous years. #1 is a reminder of what we have been looking at until just a couple of days ago…
Monday Blackbirds March 20, 2017 Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! This week’s essay is not exactly “by request”, but is prompted by a question I was asked during the week. The Red-winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, is common throughout most of North America. It is slightly smaller than a Robin. It is typically found near water, but will come to bird feeders. The male…
Monday Multicolor Moths March 13, 2017 Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! After featuring some rather drab butterflies last week, this week I offer two very colorful moths. I must confess upfront that those of you who are long time subscribers might experience a sense of deja vu, because most of the text for this essay is “borrowed” from two old ones. However, all but…
Monday Satyrs March 6, 2017 Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Thank you for all the stories you sent me regarding the Pileated woodpeckers featured in last week’s essay. I would be pleasantly surprised if this week’s subjects prompted such vivid memories! The Satyrs (more technically Satyridae) are a family of small to medium size brownish butterflies that are typically seen fluttering through partially…