There has been a wild surge of bird activity lately. I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of rain or just the time of year, but many birds have come and hung about. Today was catbird day. Of… Read More ›
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SHARING IN THE RAIN
Share Your World 6th of September It is raining. Not a sprinkle. Not a quick cloudburst. Real rain starting quite early and continuing. It was raining hard earlier and is now raining steadily, but not “tropical.” The rain is supposed to… Read More ›
NUTHATCHES OUT ON A LIMB
Nuthatches are funny, crazy birds. They always seem to be upside down. I think they are the only birds who can run head downward on trees. Mostly, they apparently prefer being upside down. they certainly prefer eating upside down.
ALL THE BIRDS
There were so many birds on the deck today. There had to be at least a dozen different species — and there were at least two species of squirrel and a couple of chipmunks, too. And let’s not forget the… 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 ›
CONNECTING TO THE MOMENT
CFFC: Connects you to the present moment Birds and other wildlife around my home is my primary connection, but the few potted plants I’ve managed to keep flowering despite heat and dryness are important too as are the orchids, the last… Read More ›
CARDINALS IN THE SNOW
Given the temperatures and the dryness, it seems a good time to remember cold and snow and how beautiful the red Cardinals are against all that whiteness. I promise to never complain about the cold again!
OH HAPPY BLUEBIRDS
So among the many pictures found yesterday, there are many bluebirds. Not as many bluebirds as grackles, but the bluebirds come as one, two, three at a time. You don’t discover (one morning) your entire deck and woods are covered… Read More ›
AN OVERLOAD OF PLENTY – OR PLENTY OF OVERLOAD
For a while I have been wondering why I take pictures but can’t find them. Well, it turned out that I had a 64 GB card in the secondary drive of my camera and there were thousands of pictures on… Read More ›
ONE, TWO, THREE – ALL THE SAME YET DIFFERENT
One-to-three Photo Processing Challenge I’ve been working on a batch of pictures I took yesterday and this morning of the birds and baby squirrels. So, I picked two good photos of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker and tried it in other formats…. Read More ›
LAST OF JULY
Last on the Card – July 2022 I haven’t taken as many pictures this month as usual. For one thing, it has been awfully hot, for two, awfully dry and for three, I’m on a bunch of new medications which are… Read More ›
SHARING THE WORLD: AUGUST 2022
SHARE YOUR WORLD AUGUST 2, 2022 – HERE COME THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER! The “Dog Days” of August are misnamed. They should be the dog days of the GOP because they are still trying to kill our first — and… Read More ›
WOODPECKERS ON THEIR TREE
I’ve been redoing some of these pictures using a tighter crop to show more bird and less tree. So if you’ve seen some of these before, yes, you have, but not this version.
PRIMARY COLORS
CMMC July Primary Colors Birds and flowers. I included yellow. It may not be an official primary color, but I think it’s primary. Is there anything bluer than a Bluebird? Or redder than rose? The blue of the water, the green… Read More ›
GOLDFINCHES AND A CARDINAL
Worrying as I am about the continuing drought, I ordered more seed. I hope I can at least see our little local flock through this beautiful yet frightening summer. Beautiful because the sun is always shining, yet scary because it… Read More ›
MOURNING DOVES
We’ve had a lot of baby doves on the deck this past week. It’s interesting watching the baby birds. Many of them, like doves and Goldfinch, look like exact miniatures of their parents. A few, like Cardinals, have unlovely offspring…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 