Tag: nature

Noisy Skies — One Woman’s Quest II (Reblog)

(Weekend Sky challenge)

Noisy Skies — One Woman’s Quest II

Critter Close Ups~ — (Reblog)

Curious Vervet Kruger National Park. South African zebra Poses for her portrait. Happy ostrich is ready for a close up, while artfully made up Ms. Giraffe puts on the glam. Barbary Ape in Gibraltar looks ready for a serious conservation. Magellanic penguin stares me down in Ushuaia, Argentina. California Channel Island Fox poses quite smartly, […]

Critter Close Ups~ —

Elephants Facing East — Meditations in Motion (Reblog)

Photo by Harvey Sapir on Pexels.com My mother was a superstitious person. She clapped for luck when she saw white horses, threw a pinch of spilled salt over her shoulder to prevent catastrophe, and had a collection of carved elephants forever facing East. Several years ago, while visiting my son and daughter-in-law, who shared my […]

Elephants Facing East — Meditations in Motion

The heron and the swan 2 — I can’t believe it! (Reblog)

Following their previous encounter, the grey heron and the mute swan stayed around awhile at the same distance from each other, each studiously ignoring the other. This was from a vantage point further around the lake. The twigs around provide quite a pleasing foreground.

The heron and the swan 2 — I can’t believe it!

Black Fungi — I can’t believe it! (Reblog)

I seem to have come across a few black fungi recently, so tried to identify them. This one was in grassland on a cliff in Devon in the summer, 1-2 inches across. I’m not sure about this, but it could be indigo pinkgill. This one was on a dead birch log in the autumn in […]

Black Fungi — I can’t believe it!