Innocence. It’s delicate. Out of focus. Beautiful.
August 13, 2012 | Categories: Children, Flowers, Nature | Tags: art, beauty, bokeh, children, flower, focus, innocence, life, nature, photography | 6 Comments
March 3, 2012 | Categories: Animals, Nature | Tags: butterfly, caterpillar, insect, metamorphosis, moth, nature, photography, pink striped oakworm moth, short depth of field, wings | 3 Comments
Lichens are made up of two types of life forms: a symbiotic organism (fungus) plus a photosynthetic partner (green alga or cyanobacterium). The fungus part gets its nutrients from the air and rain, the photosynthetic one makes its own food with the sun’s help. Lichens have been used in making dyes and perfumes, as well as traditional medicines.
In the presence of environmental toxins, lichens perish, but when the air is clean, they thrive. So, their prevalence in the area was very good news. I took deep breaths and snapped my photos.
January 13, 2012 | Categories: Nature | Tags: art, beauty, cross, fungus, lichen, nature, photography, plants, wood | 4 Comments
Awash in Light’s poetry
the pelican transforms
into wood and butter,
a feathered knight.
But when fickle Light
rescinds Her majesty,
you are treading water
and fish-hungry again.
December 13, 2011 | Categories: Animals, Birds, Nature | Tags: animal, art, brown, light, pelican, photography, poetry, portrait | 13 Comments
September 5, 2011 | Categories: Animals, Nature, Uncategorized | Tags: animal, art, dragonfly, flowers, light, nature, photography, twig | 18 Comments
Winner of Honorable Mention Award at the Fourth Annual Show of Shows Exhibition, Von Liebig Art Center, September 2011
June 23, 2011 | Categories: Animals, Birds, Nature | Tags: animals, art, birds, light, nature, pelican, photography, portrait | 13 Comments
. . . and she’s not coming home alone tonight. 
December 12, 2010 | Categories: Flowers, Nature | Tags: art, beauty, flower, humor, light, little black dress, mother nature, nature, photography, water lilly | 11 Comments
What’s next? NO SINGING . . . on the shower curtain? We should ban all signs that deny us life’s pleasures.
November 10, 2010 | Categories: Nature, Objects | Tags: climbing, happiness, life, nature, people, pleasures, signs, singing, tree, warnings | 8 Comments
Photography is magic. I made the cage disappear.
November 9, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Cats, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, cage, cat, cats, free, freedom, life, magic, photo, photography, photos, portrait, tiger, zoo | 2 Comments
October 18, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Birds, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, art, bird, birds, light, nature, photo, photography, portrait, wading, white ibis | 10 Comments
Flowers are Nature’s fireworks. 
September 14, 2010 | Categories: Flowers, Nature | Tags: art, botanical, fire, fireworks, flowers, light, nature, photography, photos, power | 8 Comments
Here, the Great White Heron is primping for his red carpet appearance. 
September 11, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Birds, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, art, birds, blogging, egret, heron, nature, paparazzi, photography, photos, privacy | 7 Comments
Which is more beautiful, the butterfly or the flower?
September 1, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Butterflies, Flowers, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, butterflies, butterfly, daisy, flowers, judgment, life, nature, photography, photos | 12 Comments
The horror of fish out of water. 
August 30, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Fish, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, death, fish, fishing, grouper, nature, photography, photos, sea | 2 Comments
New superstition: “Beware the white cat.”
August 29, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Cats, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, cat, cats, humor, pets, photography, photos, superstition, taboo | 5 Comments
Take a lesson from the goat. This is how you pose for the camera.
August 28, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Nature | Tags: animal, animals, farm, goat, humor, nature, photography, photos, posing, supermodel | 2 Comments
The spirit of friendship lives longer.
August 25, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Cats, Nature | Tags: animals, cat, cats, death, family, friend, friends, friendship, grief, grieving, life, love, pets, photography, relationships | 3 Comments
It was a chance meeting. And also destiny. A moment like any other.
August 14, 2010 | Categories: Animals, Butterflies, Flowers, Nature | Tags: animals, butterflies, butterfly, chance, destiny, flowers, life, love, magic, nature, photography, relationships | 9 Comments
It took me eight, long hours to choose a name for my blog that would sound spontaneous, thus achieving the opposite of Zen.
October 6, 2008 | Categories: Animals, Monkeys, Nature | Tags: animals, blogging, Buddhism, inspiration, koan, life, monkey, monkeys, personal, photography, photos, Zen, zoo | 1 Comment
Enso Monkey 
