Yellow Woolly Bear crossing road
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)
8 comments:
What a great photo.
We call them "wooly worms" here and, supposedly, seeing a lot of them means that a very hard winter is ahead. It's actually a pretty creature, especially when photographed against a dark background like the pavement.
Hard to think of something like a caterpillar as "cute". But they are!
When the banded woolly worms appear around here, so do the weather forecasters. They measure the width of the bands to "predict" the mildness or harshness of the winter. We even have a town in Western NC that hosts a Woolly Worm Festival each fall.
I love this blog, the photos are absolutely awesome. Thank-you for sharing! :)
~K
Awesome. Cute little saying too.
Nina--get out of the middle of the road! I mean, taking photos for your blog is one thing, but in the middle of the road?
Great post.
Donna--my neighbors are getting used to seeing me sprawled out spanning a ditch or creeping around behind stone walls--the center-of-the-road pose is just another quirky thing about that lady with the camera.
These darn insects that insist on crawling in the most uncomfortable places! I don't have one single pair of jeans without stained knees. And I've had an ongoing case of poison ivy since May!
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