Category: animals

  • Living in the Moment – West Side of Yellowstone

    Living in the Moment – West Side of Yellowstone

    So, here is the continuation of our “Living in the Moment” series from last September. All the “Living in the Moment” posts are at the bottom of this post if you want to catch up.

  • CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Horns

    CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Horns

    If you have only recently started following my blog, I invite you to read “Living in the Moment – Old Yellowstone Trail” post dated 2/22/20. There is a color version of the Pronghorns in that post, plus a few other interesting facts about an iconic “not so traveled” road.

  • Sunday Stills – Nature – East vs. West

    Sunday Stills – Nature – East vs. West

    Nature is a broad realm of the natural, physical and material things existing in our world and/or universe. It is a wide spectrum of living and non-living entities. For me, it is all about wildlife and the planet we call home. There is so much to explore that we can’t see it all in a…

  • Macro Monday – Gator

    Macro Monday – Gator

    If there is standing water anywhere in Florida, fresh, salt or brackish (mix of fresh & salt), an American alligator could be lurking. Just like any wild animal, you don’t feed them and in most cases they will not bother you.

  • SQUAREs – Perspective – SeaGull

    SQUAREs – Perspective – SeaGull

    This was another moment I got down on my knees in the sand to capture a bird at eye level. He or she was a tricky one as he or she couldn’t make up his or her mind as to which way he or she wanted to go. The waves changed and started crashing up…

  • SQUARES – Perspective – Elephant Booty

    SQUARES – Perspective – Elephant Booty

    Is this my good side? Check us out in black and white on Cee’s Black & White Challenge – Backs of Things from earlier this week. We can be found in person at the Jacksonville Zoo. Day 29 – Squares – Perspective Click the panel below to visit Becky’s site and the July Squares Photo…

  • #Write Photo – DARKNESS Looms

    #Write Photo – DARKNESS Looms

    shadows cast over the field nothing to protect or shield crack of lightning, thunder booms air is changing, darkness looms

  • CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Backs of Things

    CEE’S BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE – Backs of Things

    We had Flat Stanley for 2 weeks and took him on all sorts of adventures. c.2006. “Flat Stanley” is a children’s book by Jeff Brown that began as a bedtime story for his sons which recounts the adventures of Stanley Lambchop after he is squashed flat by a bulletin board while sleeping. It was originally…

  • SQUAREs – Perspective – Red-Bellied Woodpecker

    SQUAREs – Perspective – Red-Bellied Woodpecker

    Just waiting for the fishermen to throw back those unwanted fish. Smart or Lazy? You be the judge!

  • SQUAREs – Perspective – Flock of Nandays

    SQUAREs – Perspective – Flock of Nandays

    On an outing to Fort Desoto Park in Tierra Verde near St. Petersburg, I made it my mission to get the Nanday Parakeet onto my life list. I had seen them years earlier in St. Pete, but I wasn’t recording birds back then. Within 20 minutes of driving into the park, I heard them long…