I took a lot of pictures, so I got a few more ready to go. I am going to make a print of one of these — but I’m not sure which one. This means I was doing double duty… Read More ›
#Birds
NATURE IN BLACK & WHITE
CBWC: All About Nature From the backyard and the mass of feeders intended to bring the wild things here to the deserts of Arizona.
THE COLD IS COMING
It’s going to get cold here. Soon. Obviously, this being New England, we knew it was going to get cold. We just hoped it would hold off a couple of weeks before it happened. Longer if possible. Skipping winter would… Read More ›
IT WILL BE A COLD NIGHT
The temperature is supposed to drop by at least 40 degrees tonight. I still haven’t turned on my heat. I refuse. I never turn on the heat until mid November. I am not alone. Many people are absolutely phobic about… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – AUGUST 2022
THE CHANGING SEASONS for August 2022 It has been a minimally photographic month, mostly because it has been HOT HOT HOT. And dry, dry, dry 🔥Then we got a little bit of rain — just enough to make the ragweed… Read More ›
SO MANY WOODPECKERS
I don’t know if this is the breeding season or maybe there isn’t much else for the woodpeckers to eat, but I put out suet for them every day. For the last week, I’ve been putting out more because we… Read More ›
BACK TO THE REAL WORLD
We slipped away to visit friends in Kennebunkport, Maine. They don’t live there. They’re actually Californians who come annually to visit the rest of the family who live on this coast. I wasn’t sure we were going until the last… Read More ›
CATBIRD WITH ATTITUDE
He came. He hung around. He stared at me. I took pictures of him. He wanted something else to eat. We are — until Chewy delivers (tomorrow I hope) — completely out of birdseed. Sadly, I didn’t have any goodies… Read More ›
TWO BIRDS, ONE FEEDER
They just won’t sit still for me. I pick up the camera and they vanish. I sometimes wonder if there really were any birds or I’m just imagining them. Since all the food disappears daily, there must be something eating… Read More ›
CATBIRD BY THE BLACKSTONE
Usually Marilyn takes all the bird pictures, but this little gray bird was just hanging around, almost as if he were thinking about becoming a pet. I took pictures. Marilyn said he is a Grey Catbird, so named because the… Read More ›
MOURNING DOVES
We have a lot of doves. Dozens of them. Since I’m not putting as much food into the flat feeder, they gather on the ground more often than on the flat feeder. Doves can’t cling to a feeder. they are… Read More ›
THE BLOOMING DECK
FOTD – May 12 – Mother’s day a few days late Owen had planned this for Mother’s Day but having just bought us a television, he was out of money. So — he got his paycheck and today was a… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 58 – MINI-ORCHIDS AND A HOUSE FINCH
I keep getting into a time crunch. I write and there’s no time to draw. I draw, but there’s no time to write. No matter how hard I try, the number of hours in a day never gets any bigger…. Read More ›
OUR GARDEN’S NEW LOOK
It used to be when I looked out my back door, mostly I saw crabgrass. In early spring, for a while, we have dandelions and violets, but mostly it was crabgrass all summer and snow all winter — with leaves… Read More ›
THE HUNGRY CREATURES
We had been trying to figure out which birds were eating all the food we were putting out, but this morning I finally realized the food is being consumed by a lot of birds of every kind you will find… Read More ›
HOUSE FINCHES AND A WOODPECKER
In the past month, the number of birds we are supporting has tripled. It might be even more than that. There are an incredible number of birds and I have had to make decisions about how much food I can… Read More ›
LAST PHOTO – MARCH 2022
Last on the Card – March 2022 Even though I worked through many of the Bluebird pictures, I saved and marked the last one just for you. It doesn’t look a whole lot different than the one I processed except for… Read More ›
TINY GOLDFINCHES
They are babies. You can tell because when you look at the photographs closely, you can actually see the baby feathers poking up on their heads and usually on their breasts, too. They grow from babyhood to adult in just… Read More ›
PORTRAIT OF THE (SKETCH) ARTIST By GARRY ARMSTRONG
My wife, Marilyn, has always been a skilled wordsmith. In fact, Marilyn has been my editorial ‘Max Perkins,’ polishing up all the things I’ve written in recent years. She knows my voice and her edits make my work much better…. Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY – FEATHERED, FURRY, FRUSTRATING
Fandango’s Flashback Friday — February 18th When we got up this morning, there was a red squirrel settled in the seed box, I took some pictures. We had an errand to run down in Dartmouth and were worried about getting there…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 