Nature

Random nature shots…

A little shroom popping up.

Lunch time!

 

Polk Salad…. well, that’s what we call it.

Moth in motion

Backside of a Elephant ear…. (plant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under the mush…

Imagine you are ant size… here’s a nice patio with a sunroof   😉

Itsy Bitsy

The afternoon sun backlit this leaf giving a “x-ray” effect on this little guy.  He (or she) was only about 1/8th of inch long but still a bit creepy.

Just before dark

I shot this in the last fading moments of daylight as the tree frogs and night birds began to sing their songs.

Purple

Out walking around the woods right before dark…. I love the light at that time of day, saw this flower hiding in the bushes.

Kissing Cousins

Found these while out walking in the woods… there is so much to see if you just slow down and actually look.

Tiny Forests….

As I walked into the pasture this morning to feed our pony, I noticed a tiny forest growing at my feet. The sun was just coming up, dew drops still clung to the wet blades of grass and in a miniature world where tiny mushrooms are giant trees a new day was beginning as well.

It’s a bugs life….

I was standing outside the studio for a short break when I noticed some activity on a small plant in front of me. I didn’t have my normal camera available but used what I could, got to capture the moment right?  So I trade off quality for image this time.

Passion

“That’s the way Lady Luck dances….”

An image of a Passion Vine flower, or as Wikipedia puts it: “Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants”. These grow wild in our horse pasture, I found this one on an early morning walk just after a heavy dew.

Frosty

I couldn’t decide which image I wanted to put up… I shot both of these on the same morning several years ago on the “first frost” of the year. Simplistic images, nothing fancy but in a weird way I think they symbolize me. I go into winter kicking and screaming, trying to hang on to the last days of summer or even autumn, the last days of color. Winter is so bland and cold, everything dies. Everything is gray. Snow can produce beautiful photos but aside from that it has no appeal to me and here in the south we only get a day or two of it each year anyway.  I realize “cold” is relative to your surroundings… 45 degrees to me is miserable where someone in North Dakota is probably having a backyard bar-b-que & playing Jimmy Buffett on the stereo.

I suppose the good news is our local rodent (ground hog) predicted an early spring, I’m so desperate for warm beautiful days (that would be 80 degrees and above 😉 ) that I buy into the hype and keep watching for those first flowering buds on our trees.