Ruby Throated Hummingbird (Female)
I'm rather shocked to see that my last posting on this blog was May 26th, almost three months ago. My absence during this period was not planned. I've simply been spending almost every summer hour in the great outdoors, far away from my digital devices. There is one exception, however. I have taken my camera with me every day, whether out for long walks or exploratory drives through the countryside. For whatever reason, my orientation this summer has been more visual than verbal, and the natural world has drawn me deeper and deeper into both its beauty and its mysteries.
That said, I will simply let some of my summer photographs speak to where I've been and what I've been doing for the past few months.
Silhouette of Blue Dasher Dragonfly
Fixated on Distant Light
Spicebush Swallowtail
on Lantana Bush
Barred Owl, Heard Nightly
and Finally Sighted in my Front Yard
Lily Pads After Rain in a Pond
at Bellingrath Gardens, Near Mobile, Alabama
Other Lily Pads in Same Pond,
Tweaked to Portray My Sense of How
Van Gogh Might Have Painted the Scene
Ruby Throated Hummingbird (Female)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Blue Dasher Dragonfly
Wary Male Cardinal
From the Lily Pond at Bellingrath Gardens
Spicebush Swallowtail
Ruby Throated Hummingbird (Female)
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough
