Images of Summer
A cooler breeze of fall has begun to chill the nighttime air. The days of ninety degrees may be over until next summer. Yet it’s still warm enough, sunny enough […]
Tag Archives: wetlands
Summer Mirrored Bridge
The bridge’s mirrored image is reflecting in the creek, even as a current washes over flat rocks and guides driftwood down stream. The quietness of the creek is only interrupted […]
Summer Water Lily
Walking alongside a lake in the forest, I admire the creamy white petals of water lilies against the large green leaves and dark blue waters. The beautiful, serene Nymphaea covering […]
Summer Rat Snake
In the swamp this harmless, yet feisty, baby rat snake edges closer to my camera. The straight-sided snake glided through the water with a striped scaly body displaying an interesting […]
Summer Amphibian
On sunny summer day looking into the cloudy water of a pond teaming with life, I caught a glimpse of this shimmering amphibian. I think it’s a tadpole that will […]
Spring Stream
Even a mighty river like the Mississippi starts somewhere as a stream. So it must be with stream contributing to a canal as it travels downward or a river. I […]
Winter Slough
Cold and soggy on a trail that angles along the shoreline of a slough. Trees are dark, leathery with a few dried leaves clinging tightly to branches. The muddy earth […]
Summer Horizon
I’m gazing at a summer horizon of blue skies and dark, wavy blue waters. The white light of a hot summer sun blazes a path over the surface of the […]
Travel Theme – Wetlands
A gallery of different kinds of wetlands, where land meets water and the sky shines above, for watery Travel theme: Land Meets Water.
Spring by the Reeds and Rushes
“The wind in the reeds and the rushes, The bees on the bells of thyme, The birds on the myrtle bushes, The cicale above in the lime, And the lizards […]
Quote for the Week
“We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author
Fall Egret
It started as a somber day. Then the su came in sparkling light across the marsh I walked near. A large shadow crossed the sky a half mile to the […]
