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I read this posting on iloveshelling.com before our first trip to Sanibel Island ~5 years ago:
www.iloveshelling.com/blog/2013/11/19/filling-the-apple-s...
That year, and the next time we stayed in Sanibel in 2014, Sally found some way of dissuading me from trying our hand at collecting apple snail shells at the Harns Marsh Preserve ourselves. (She really, really doesn't like alligators; 'snakes either, but mostly alligators.) This trip we finally did it. We carried a dog-eared printout of Pam's article, and followed every suggestion, and the next thing we knew we were wading in water well above our ankles, parting the reeds of the marsh...and finding empty apple snail shells! I even followed Pam's 3-day cleaning process to the "t".
Scrubbing and draining them up to the last minute, I didn't really get a good look at them clean until after we returned from vacation. I'm still shaking my head at striped snail shells the size of small apples, with the soft play of blues and lavender and gold, like a Georgio Morandi painting.
Thank you, Pam!
[ best viewed at largest size ] This is the beginning of my Moleskine entry for our daytrip to the Florida Museum of Natural History yesterday. There was a dinosaur egg exhibit opening so we took my Ysa for the day. This was one of two mammoths that centerpiece the museum's main lobby.
Part of the day was also spent at their new Butterfly Rainforest. There are no words to describe the latter. I will replace this scan with the completed journal pages when they are done.
ADDENDUM 110906: Found this on another blog (that is wonderfully inspire to peruse) and it made me think of the work I'd done here. Thought you guys might like to see it.
Les harnais sont solidement fixés aux arbres.
Le toit de mon hamac de bivouac me protège suffisamment même si aucune averse n’est annoncée pour la nuit.
Sur la corniche donnant vers l’est, mon boîtier est prêt. J’essaie de prendre quelque clichés de la Voie Lactée .D’où je suis, je domine des coteaux forestiers. Mais ça ne suffit pas à me donner un beau premier plan.
J’écoute la forêt. Un silence tout relatif s’est invité à ma soirée. Quelques rongeurs scrutent le sol.
Je décide d’aller dormir.
Le hamac est confortable. Je me glisse sous le filet sans peine.
Une heure passe, puis deux. Je n’arrive pas à fermer l’oeil. Rien ne m’inquiète vraiment. Je regrette le thé pris peut être un peu tard.
Ou peut être que ma voiture garée au milieu de nulle part…..
Les bruits environnants ne me dérangent pas vraiment. C’est une riche expérience que de dormir en extérieur. Tous les sens sont en éveils. Cette sensation de liberté , de ne pas avoir de cloisons exerçant comme une pression sur mon corps tout en étant séparée par une couche d’air.
Je décide malgré tout de repartir en pleine nuit . Ce premier essai est en partie concluant.
Sur le retour, je traverse le pont qui domine le canal. Je stoppe la voiture à son niveau.
Mon application sur la carte du ciel me dit que la Voie Lactée est alignée avec le cour d’eau. C’est une aubaine.
... into the cloudy sunset.
The last days of the monsoon in Phuket, Thailand, here Nai Harn beach. It is always very warm there, even in the heavy rain. In the day about 35°, at night about 25°, water 28°, ... a very peaceful place, one of my favorite places in this season...
I used my D200 with the Nikkor 12-24 @ 12mm.
Bigger size is really better here
Male Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) in flight after diving for an Apple Snail at Harns Marsh, Lehigh Acres, Florida
Europe, Netherlands, Friesland, Harlingen (Harns), Willemshaven, Dike, Railway station, Foot bridge (uncut)
The Leeuwarden - Harlingen railway skirts the new sea dike (Keermuur, 2010) of Harlingen (Harns) and the elongated railway terminal station does the same. Two very elegant and steep reinforced concrete foot bridges (2014) cross the railway and enables one to access the Willemshaven.
A local TV (GPTV) documentary about the installation of the bridge is here. (Dutch).
#23 of the new Naar het noorden album, which brings together my pics taken in Holland's northern provinces: Drenthe, Groningen & Friesland.
Nai Harn Bay, Phuket
in Thailand
#thailand #naiharn #beach #travel #landcaspe #seascape #water #olympus #photography #mywork #myphoto
Negative Lab Pro v3.0.2 | Color Model: Basic | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: Linear + Gamma | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Natural.
Kodak Portra 400
Leica MP
This barn is on the Harn Homestead. The center portion of this three-story barn is a 1970's reconstruction of Mr. Harn's first barn which burned in 1921. His barn was only two stories tall and did not have the rock wings on either side. The 1889 windmill on the rooftop is from the Shinn family's farm in Okeene. A well was located in the barn, which helped to make sure that the water did not freeze in the water.
Sorry this shot does not show the windmill.
Need to add some more to my Summer to-do list. Will you help?
(Macro of Refrigerator Art, I organized at the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida)