lipizzaner horses pulling a fiaker in front of imperial palace schoenbrunn

A Garden Spider at work

With legs fully extended, this spider would be about the size of the palm of my hand.

As last night’s storms cleared in rural Augusta County, Virginia

When I jacked up the saturation to 100% in post, there's a faint secondary rainbow running through the left end of the upper dark cloud in the upper-left corner. The reds from that secondary rainbow are just barely visible here.

This reminded me of some of the images in the media from particle-accelerator labs like CERN

cms.cern/news/new-moriond-catching-disappearing-particles

Lower Manhattan

A squirrel poses on a 'shelf fungus' on a tree above the lake

Early rise this morning - beautiful, calm, frosty conditions - not a breath of air... came across this scene, threw up the drone and glad I did - love the perspective, the circle of trees and the lines from the farmers vehicles bringing your eye into the scene... love it

sooc, except for a crop

A metaphor for my life when Covid hit (the road at bottom center) and where I am now (the same road at upper left): twists and turns indeed.

sooc, except for a crop

The beaver, on the hunt at dawn

Just after a recent thunderstorm

Reflections of seasonal color in the surface of the lake

Gene Autry version: youtu.be/1AhpWZjqMLI

Good recent cover: youtu.be/2nY2BoXNQoA

Manhattan

A blast from the past when I lived in the northeastern U.S. and got in to NYC semi-regularly

The brilliant maple tree right outside my office window in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley

Moment captured on the Oak Leaf Trail in Franklin, Wisconsin. (USA)

Dunnfield Creek, Delaware Water Gap N.R.A.

(With apologies to Miles Davis)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7ZWDaKECI