These gray pods hanging alone in a winter garden were like sleeping animals waiting for the sun. I had to touch them, so velvety soft.
Tag Archives: nature photography
Summer- bluebird nest
August 13, 2008 – 12:49 pm
A brown speckled cowbird egg in a blue bird nest. An interloper! Early in the morning when the bluebirds fly around looking for bugs, the cowbird comes to the nest and lays its egg. Then it removes the blue egg. It must think the parents are color blind! It leaves the same number hoping the [...]
Dragonfly Metamorphosis
July 13, 2008 – 1:19 pm
When fully hatched and “inflated” this big dragonfly will be about 3″ long. Hours ago it crawled up a tule reed from underwater. Its sticky feet keep a firm hold as the reed whips violently in the wind. During calm moments I see the yellow veins slowly filling the wings. In 10 [...]