My grandkids love lady bugs. I’m sure if you added all the time together that we’ve spent looking for lady bugs in the back yard that it might add up to days or weeks. We generally look for them on the trees and we look on the rose bushes too. And sometimes we’ve been lucky...
It’s been a good year for Tulip Trees. They’ve been full of blossoms. And by the time the blossoms open up enough so you can see all of the inside, they’re already beginning to fade, the petals turning brown, beginning to fray around the ages. But it’s worth the wait to see the vivid red pedestal...
With the Super Moon event, I knew just the image I wanted — the super-sized moon rising and reflecting over the ocean. I’ve seen the moon rise over the ocean many times, even photographed it several times. But I’ve never before had the chance to shoot it using a quality long telephoto lens to capture the...
It seems that everywhere I’ve gone this week, I’ve been drawn to the fields painted yellow by the black eyed susans. I made several attempts to capture what I saw. But photos of the thousands of flowers, or even the hundreds, just didn’t seem to represent the beauty I saw. It wasn’t until I started...
One of my favorite get-away places for an afternoon is the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. It’s about an hour away, and you’re pretty much guaranteed quiet, not seeing many people, and getting to see some wildlife. And, you’re sure to be followed around by swarms of mosquitos. The birds were pretty sparse Tuesday, but I got some...
