new turtle

mid-September yard walking, found this walker

Photography session likely scarred him for life

grey tree frog

The remarkable thing about a grey tree frog

is that on silvery metal, he'll turn silver.

I did have to touch him.

He didn't really like that.

don't we know it

day in another country

Shelly's house & chickens, Hanover County

Some people grow catalpa treess for the caterpillars -

good fishing bait

as Susan Orleans says - "chickens: the new IT bird"

this is what I saw in NYC Labor Day weekend 2009

Mobjack Bay - August

45 minutes from home & another world

from my kayak

quality entertainment

Photo & espresso courtesy of Jorn Ake.

I was looking at that & then I saw this

I went out to get a picture of this guy

doing this (head in ground, removing eggs we had watched a turtle lay this afternoon, perhaps the last turtle layer of the summer)


and doing this with his turtle egg trophy


And I sat down next to this


and realized I was under the oak tree branch where

the barred owl had been hanging out a few nights this week , & obviously digesting

Indepedence Day Eagle