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When snow covers the ground, people's movements leave traces behind. The path of those heading toward the shrine remained visible here.
Koshioh shrine, Nikaho, Akita, Japan
When I refill the peanuts in the bird feeders the blue jays are always the first to arrive.They always call out to the other jays that there is new food too. This one arrived less than a minute after refilling the feeder.
When I took a trip to south Texas in February one of the snakes I most wanted to see was the Texas Indigo snake. These are one of our biggest non-venomous snakes. They eat other snakes, frogs, lizards and a variety of other things. On my last full day of the trip I travelled to a location that a friend told me these beautiful snakes could be found.
Here is a youtube video of the search followed by the written account below.
I arrived at the location in the afternoon. The habitat consisted of farmland and scrubland which was intersected by a deep sided ditch. Waterways are often the best places to spot reptiles and amphibians so I searched carefully along the ditch hoping to see a big black snake somewhere in the vegetation or under a rock or at the mouth of a burrow. I was walking along one side of the ditch when I looked over to the other side and couldn't believe my eyes. There was a big Texas Indigo snake sitting there in the grass next to a shrub on the edge of the ditch. I was recording some video at the time and took my camera out to try to get some pics and it disappeared. The ditch was too wide to jump across at that point so I went down stream to where I could cross over a bridge and back to the spot I had seen the snake. I looked all around where I had seen it and it was unfortunately no where to be found.
As I stood in the spot where I had originally seen the snake in the grass, I thought about how close I had come to catching that beautiful snake and wondered if I had even gotten it on video. I thought that the snake had gone down a rodent hole or something. As I stood there in a mixture of emotions I happened to glance into the water and something dark caught my eye in the water in the undercut bank on the opposite side of the ditch where I had first seen the snake. As I looked closer, I was amazed and elated to see that the long dark object was the Indigo snake hiding there in the water under the bank. I think it had seen me and then dove into the water and decided to hide under the bank. I wasn't going to lose it this time so I decided I needed to jump the ditch. I got as much of a start as I could on the steep downhill next to the ditch and made my jump. I barely made it safely to the other side, ran over to the bank where I saw the snake and reached in to make a grab. I was overjoyed to pull this beautiful snake out of the water.
Indigo snakes are very gentle and this snake never made any attempt to bite but it did flatten out its neck as a threat display.
After a little photo session with this beautiful snake I returned it to its habitat along the bank of the ditch. I was very grateful for the opportunity to see this snake on my visit to Texas.
Note please don't confuse the Texas Indigo snake with the threatened Eastern Indigo snake which lives in the SE United states. They are closely related but the Texas Indigo snake has healthy populations in Texas and Mexico and is not threatened or endangered and is thus OK for me to catch, photograph and release. If this was an Eastern Indigo snake that would not be allowed without a permit.
When we start drying out things should change I hope. We are due for a couple of day of rain starting tomorrow. ( just what we need ). One thing I did notice while out was the amount of fallow land. Not in production and it is a lot ! We should be seeing some fairly well developed growth in fields by this time and I see none.
“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.” - Aleksandar Hemon
Final beauty of fall, coming to it's end. Taking backroads home from KHPN, highway lately getting congested, but this drive is alway destressing of days events, also no crazy drivers
When nature's beautiful creature came to visit our home I didn't miss the chance to take photos! Old shot, old memory of our previous home.
When traveling around the Kebler Pass area for the fall aspen show, I spied this location and returned for sunset and waited for the very moment when the last kiss of light was on the peaks of the Raggeds Wilderness Area as seen in the background here. What a gorgeous night!
When the sun is going down..
Dal Rifugio Valmasque, 2233m , Francia
C'è nel giorno un'ora serena che si potrebbe definire assenza di rumore, è l'ora serena del crepuscolo
( Victor Hugo )
When the flock of Lapwings went up so did the Golden Plovers. These birds were a very long way off and were just a small section of a photo I took of the lapwings. One thing I noticed was that these Golden Plovers flocked higher than the Lapwings.
“When photographing women, we have three paths: photograph them with the "male gaze” ; photograph them as "photographer eyes” and photograph them as "poet feeling”. I always try to be the three ...” by Old Roger
When sleep feels impossible, in the middle of the night….thankful to find beauty in the mundane, a way to cope, a reminder that you are growing even while you feel trapped in the darkness.
when you have to visit every address in the world on a single night - you need a few trial runs to iron out the kinks.
Iceland is a Nordic island country between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Europe and North America. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the region's westernmost and most sparsely populated country.
Iceland Foods Limited, trading under both the Iceland and The Food Warehouse names, is a British supermarket chain headquartered in Deeside, Wales. Iceland was started as a frozen food retailer in 1970, before growing greatly during the 1980s, by purchasing smaller rivals before acquiring larger rival Bejam in 1989.
This one is in Minehead, Somerset, UK.
Sending you light and laughter this Christmas.
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When you are in a rush to get upto Scales Moor on the flanks of the mighty Whernside, it does not help when you have to keep stopping to take in the sublime Yorkshire Dales countryside en route and a beautiful and long lasting omnipresent pink cast .
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Beautiful morning @ Rough Ridge off the Blue Ridge Pkwy. NC.
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They came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and falling down on their faces they gave him worship: and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices." Matthew 2:10 & 11
Seems appropriate so close to Epiphany.
Smile on Saturday: Lit by candle light
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"...Jimi Hendrix
inspiration: a short "power of love" playlist: ♥♥♥♥♥♥