Hairy Woodpecker
We had a few inches of fresh snow yesterday and a little more overnight. There is something different about making the first tracks in a trail after the snow. The snow still lofted on branches and quiet isolation brought on feelings of my childhood alone in the snowy woods. The
GF500 f5.6
Since I bought my long lens (500mm f5.6) I have experimented with long landscapes typically taken through a gap in the trees. I have taken to making extreme crops of these and they have a kind of strange appeal to me. The scene is many miles distant and so
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Sunday morning and the dog and I are up and out the door. We are heading to church but unlike my fellow townsfolk my church is the forest. I am, however, a devoted parishioner as I worship several times a week if I am able. My hymns are the croak
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Mollie and I started the morning a little late. We wanted to visit the chimes again, or at least I did. Mollie is happy anywhere there are woods and fresh snow. We came up a different route this morning from the highway, up a steep climb; one set of tracks
GF500 f5.6
Mollie is squirrel crazy and their size and motions, clinging to the side of a tree, attracts her attention so she often helps me find them. The pileated is a large woodpecker which the cartoon Woody Woodpecker was roughly modeled after. Like all woodpeckers and the smaller sapsucker they can
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Apologies in advance for my recent enthusiasm for the regular small accumulations of dry light snow. It has been a thin winter. I have had the pleasure the last few days of taking care of my neighbor’s dog Boba. He is a goofy, friendly, and lovable border collie. He
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A month of use...
GF500 f5.6
Another morning out with Mollie. A month of freezing weather and a snow drought has left the forest looking tired and dried out. The frost penetrates deeper into the soil and erupts in cracks of bright crystals of ice while the trails bulge with black shiny domes of ice covered