friday - photos
honey bee
I've been playing around in the back yard with the Canon S3 yesterday and today. It seems so strange to me to be taking a closeup photo from 4 feet away but if you are using the telephoto that's how it works. I like these but I miss the drama of lensbaby. I guess I need to carry 3 cameras now to get everything I want. :)
baby jesus
angry pansy
beethoven?
morning glory - was open and now closed
unfurling
baby fuzz leaves
new vine, last year's vine and last year's string
everything book seat
fox glove
hummers - this is where the telephoto really comes in handy and why I brought the S3 outside in the first place - to get photos of the hummers
six settling down to supper
lamb and garden pixie
bathrobe reflections
passion flower
watering can
pink zinnia
While I was sitting in the seat in front of the goatshed this morning I noticed a little group of 3 small birds working their way through the spruce branches overhead. I don't know what kind they were - just silhouettes against the sky but they constantly made a tsst, tsst sound. They seemed to be parents and a baby. The parents were busy searching the limbs for food (bugs?) and the baby was ineffectually doing the same but also spending a lot of time watching the parents and looking around. Every little while a parent would fly over and give the baby something that they had found. I wondered was the tsst, tsst just a simple communication sound to let each other know where they were, or were they actually saying things (that only they could understand) and the parents were keeping up a running commentary of where to find this bug or how to get a hold of that bug. Anyway it just seemed like such a sweet little family scene to watch - dad and mom teaching baby to forage.