The deep Bahia Grass is still laden with morning dew when I set forth. There are no other people in sight. I have seen no cars that might indicate there are even people in the Wildlife Refuge at this early hour. It is already hot. Daylight has just broken and a chorus of frogs, cicadasContinue reading “Footsteps In The Field”
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Just For Beauty’s Sake II
I keeping with previous requests just to occasionally to a “photo dump” this will be a brief blog focused on what I consider to be some of my better recent photographs. Double clicking on a photo in a gallery should allow the reader to enlarge the photo and then scroll through the gallery. I haveContinue reading “Just For Beauty’s Sake II”
Sitting in the Sanctuary
It is early on a spring morning and I am once again moving quietly with my camera amongst the waist high prairie greenery in what once was Leon County’s Lake Jackson. Although the lake has mostly drained, there are marsh lands like the one I walk in now dotted along the edges now turned brilliantContinue reading “Sitting in the Sanctuary”
Spring Renewal
I am not an advocate of New Year’s resolutions. I understand the desire to make them for sure. New Year, new you. I get that. However, real change takes time. Old habits take time to break and new habits take time to form. Dietary changes are difficult, Waking earlier for any reason much less anContinue reading “Spring Renewal”
If I Pay Attention In Class
When I was a child, I was a very poor student. I had better things to do than pay attention in class. I doodled, read stuff that was not assigned, talked, and gazed out of the window because the outside world beckoned. As an aging adult, I hope that I’m a better student now thanContinue reading “If I Pay Attention In Class”
The Need For Reset
As I step out of the truck, the air is a crisp 33 degrees. There is no traffic noise. Just the sound of a light breeze in the palmettos. It is just after sunrise in the Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge and there is a lot going on here already. My boots crunch on theContinue reading “The Need For Reset”