A Summer At Home Summer 2019 |
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There's no place like home. Sometimes I have to remind myself that there may be many enticing destinations for photographic safaris, but the one right outside my back door is pretty nice too. I own six acres of mixed lawn, meadow and wooland and I could happily spend days trying to get just the perfect shot of a flower, or an insect. I am very lucky to live in a rural area where it is quiet after being educated so well about the natural world. |
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A Little Family It doesn't happen every year, but in 2019 a doe showed up with two fawns and they spent a great deal of time enjoying the short grass of my backyard. I don't have dogs, nor do any of my neighbors, so the deer feel relatively comfortable close to the house. I stepped out onto the deck to snap this photo and mother and child looked in my direction, but were not particularly upset.
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August Moon I always look forward to the full moons of the summer months, but I don't always get to see them because of clouds and storms. This year the moon had to fight its way past some clouds, but when it finally broke through the effect was wonderfully evocative. |
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Cool Mornings In A Hot Month August can be a real tough month to endure, but not if you get up early in the morning and enjoy what cool air there might be. I took a walk down into the meadow on an August morning and found this beautiful dew-covered spider web waiting for me. |
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My Mother's Favorite It was the same morning that I found the spider web. I made my way further down the trail that I maintain and passed through a wet area where the bowl-shaped meadow dumps its water into a ravine. Right there, in a spot that was wet throughout the year, I was delighted to find a large patch of turtlehead flowers blooming in the early morning. When I told my mother what I had found she went mental with jealousy!
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Copyright 2020 William Danielson |
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