Wobnde, Karen! You capture the beauty of the birds and of the moment so well! I love the sandpiper in flight. The swallows and martins are very busy here in Tokyo and are a great source of delight.
I once was fishing a little mountain stream near here, and was casting my fly around a bend in the beaver-dam stream, which will eventually turn into a meadow many beaver generations from now. As I cast around the corner, my rod suddenly bent, the water rolled, and something large pulled out my line. I followed it around the corner and found an angry beaver. Since I don’t use barbed hooks, the beaver freed itself, but was not happy with me. They do have their limits.
Another time, just a dusk, a bat caught my fly in midair, but spit it out. Thank goodness. I like those furry bug eaters, hairy canaries, and have neighbors who build bat houses for them. Everything has its place, even those vile blood sucking mosquitoes, or udzuzus as they are called in Malawi. In addition to sucking blood, they pollinate plants in their spare time, when they are vegans like me.
With these wonderful shots you deserve all of the rest you need, Karen. Love the open sunrise prior to the storm as well as the cloud shots. Layers of clouds moving in different directions fascinates me, too! How white can a swallow's breast be?! He is certainly a very handsome fellow. My barn swallows have returned this week with their happy twittering as they sort out who will live where and marvelous aeronautics out over the field. We are having a very pretty bit of spring just now. Green, green, green as far as the eye can see!
You know, larger captioning is a great idea for a person who's highlighting images. That never occurred to me. For a word-forward newsletter, a lighter caption makes sense, but for an image-forward newsletter, this does. I imagine it was an issue of being able to read them easily? I never realized this font was possible to change. I guess that Substack is more versatile than it first appears to be.
Thanks Janisse! I couldn't change the font, but I could make it bold and italic, which at least made it a bit larger. I wish the editor would get a little more robust though!
Keep dropping beauties!
I just wrote a post on flowers and rocks and my last line was 'For fast acting relief, slow down.' I guess we are on the same page.
Wobnde, Karen! You capture the beauty of the birds and of the moment so well! I love the sandpiper in flight. The swallows and martins are very busy here in Tokyo and are a great source of delight.
My humble gratitude, Karen.
I once was fishing a little mountain stream near here, and was casting my fly around a bend in the beaver-dam stream, which will eventually turn into a meadow many beaver generations from now. As I cast around the corner, my rod suddenly bent, the water rolled, and something large pulled out my line. I followed it around the corner and found an angry beaver. Since I don’t use barbed hooks, the beaver freed itself, but was not happy with me. They do have their limits.
Another time, just a dusk, a bat caught my fly in midair, but spit it out. Thank goodness. I like those furry bug eaters, hairy canaries, and have neighbors who build bat houses for them. Everything has its place, even those vile blood sucking mosquitoes, or udzuzus as they are called in Malawi. In addition to sucking blood, they pollinate plants in their spare time, when they are vegans like me.
Really nice captures Karen - those two photos of the Tree Swallow on that red-orange mesh are stunning.
Thank you. It's always better when the bird is CLOSE!
Beautiful pictures… I love clouds too👍❤️. The storms missed us too… just north and east of us 👍🙏
Thank you Sharon! I'm glad they missed you too.
With these wonderful shots you deserve all of the rest you need, Karen. Love the open sunrise prior to the storm as well as the cloud shots. Layers of clouds moving in different directions fascinates me, too! How white can a swallow's breast be?! He is certainly a very handsome fellow. My barn swallows have returned this week with their happy twittering as they sort out who will live where and marvelous aeronautics out over the field. We are having a very pretty bit of spring just now. Green, green, green as far as the eye can see!
Thank you Sandy! Enjoy your swallows and spring!
so many birds, so much nature, so little time . . . thank you for my day's send off
Thank you Sharon
To the Tree Swallow~
Well done, yes, you have lovely wings.
And to you Karen~
Excellent photos. I’m glad you are there to take them. The Swallow at sunrise, thanks for getting out early!
Thank you Lor
The bold captions are a nice change.
Oh good! I hope they will work for folks to see them better.
You know, larger captioning is a great idea for a person who's highlighting images. That never occurred to me. For a word-forward newsletter, a lighter caption makes sense, but for an image-forward newsletter, this does. I imagine it was an issue of being able to read them easily? I never realized this font was possible to change. I guess that Substack is more versatile than it first appears to be.
Thanks Janisse! I couldn't change the font, but I could make it bold and italic, which at least made it a bit larger. I wish the editor would get a little more robust though!
I'm up for some beauty and rest, too! Whew! What a week!
Beauty and rest - wishing this for you Lauren!