Awakening to a new world, blanketed with fresh snow. The brisk winds sweeping snowflakes across the landscape creating a misty view. The horses were frolicking in the snow. Kicking their heels up, running across the paddock, and nipping each other in play. The mares, however were taking a […]
#1 – Take the wrong lens for the job. #2 – Use too small of an aperture setting. #3 – Not paying attention to one’s shutter speeds to notice that they’re so slow to freeze motion. #4 – Not standing and holding the camera steady #5 – Not […]
A JOURNEY FROM PATAPSCO IN MARYLAND TO ANNAPOLIS APRIL 4, 1730 – Percy H. Boynton At length the wintry Horrors disappear, And April views with Smiles the infant Year; The grateful Earth from frosty Chains unbound, Pours out its vernal Treasures all around, Her Face bedeckt with Grass, […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 66,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about […]
There are little bandits in my garden. Very smart and now very plump bandits. One of the many bird feeders in my garden is this small metal mesh ball that is intended for peanuts for nuthatches, woodpeckers and the like. Most certainly not intended for creatures with fur […]
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Rod Serling
Well I did it. I went and dropped my beautiful new awesome Canon 5D Mark III. Remember when I was at Longwood Gardens before Christmas? Using a Manfrotto tripod with a quick release plate, I was taking my camera on and off the tripod a few times. This […]
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. Thich Nhat Hanh
Where the Chesapeake lies under the mists of dawn, or opens out to sunlight-shattered waters, its surface falls and rises, inhaling, exhaling, like the lungs of the living world. The bay is a state of being, a great heart pulsing with the tides, exchanging sea and river water […]
Among the birder community in the Mid-Atlantic State area this winter, excitement over the appearance of Snowy Owls has become an obsession. Thanks to the power of Facebook, the ability to immediately communicate the discoveries and locations of these rare birds are now instantaneous. This morning, I was […]
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 