sunshine warm upon your back,
a field of green grass.


Come along in Red Canoe as she explores the quiet backwater of Ohio's State Parks and the scenic streams and rivers of the Midwest. Discover the beauty hidden beyond the water's edge, quietly waiting, past access points, often only inches deep!
Come browse my photography site, Nature Remains: nothing but a photograph, for full-page slide shows of my favorite images and opportunities to purchase them.
In Spring of 2008, I began the study of 2 vernal pools on my property as part of the Ohio Vernal Pool Partnership monitoring program.
My 2008 journal includes the first photos and findings, as I studied this fascinating wetland area just a few steps beyond my backdoor...
2009 photos and findings,
2010,... again!
Now, 4 years later, another season is just days away!

Travel beyond the Midwest has taken me to some beautiful places. Usually off the beaten track, these places are WILD!
Acadia National Park
New River Nature Festival
Olympic National Park
Pictured Rocks and the UP
Voyageurs National Park
(click on the text above each photo for a quick get-away)
A regularly appearing feature, "Have you seen..." takes a closer, more patient look at things usually not seen in a flattering light.
Take a look!
Each spring, as winter lessens its grip and days warm with the first fragrant breezes of a new season, we collect sap from our Sugar Maples and produce just enough syrup for ourselves for the coming year.
The progress of this year's backyard endeavor is illustrated here.
Summer 2008, the tiny jewel of the avian world, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, nested just feet from my front door. Pictures of her nest and the changing lives within are collected in this journal.
From life the size of a pea....
Cats that come to stay
(click on the text above each photo for stories in these collections)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.~Robert Frost
11 comments:
Looks like a nice life.
;-)
I envy it too...
I like cows, they are so peaceful but I don't envy them their little paradise, it is so short lived and then off to the slaughter house, no, I'd rather have my own Monday any time.
Cows really seem to know how to enjoy those sunny moments!
Cows lives are too short and too full of pollution. No, I don't envy them.
But these cows?
Content to spend their days outdoors in fresh air and wide open spaces, not a stock yard animal?
Their care is clean and kind.
And today, I envy their place in the sun, while I work in a cubicle, facing a wall until the sun goes down.
I think the same thought each day when I pass the sheep...
Lovely cow haiku
words lifting from cubicle
what's sunshine to cows
I envy their time in the sun but, not their lives. And, I love to hear them moo. I could listen for hours. Have a nice night, Nina~
Yep! The lazy life of a cow..Ha! I love cows. I would stop along the country roads a lot to take photos of them. Love your photos and post Nina!!
A very sweet post, Nina. These cows look like they have not a care in the world. I think those who are allowed to roam free in their pasture are getting to be a rare thing. I'm thankful that I see so many of them in my corner of the world. A =sigh= to you from one cubicle to another!
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