Monday, March 27, 2017

Early spring delights

A quiet and peaceful walk around the trails of the North Carolina Botanical Garden revealed some early blooms and foragers.


The pretty goblet-like cups of Carolina Silverbells.


A bumble bee seeking nectar from the Silverbells.


A delicate and nearly ephemeral early Iris.


A trillium in lovely ruby and green variegated colors.


And an amusing surprise awaited along one of the trails.


A whimsical woodland creature, out and about, enjoying nature as much as me.


Sunday, March 19, 2017

2016 A Photographic log, Part II


Frittalaria, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina


Wild Maine blueberries, Acadia National Park, Maine


Rain forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee


White-marked tussock moth caterpillar (Orgyia leucosstigma)
Holly Springs, North Carolina


Shasta daisy, Holly Springs, North Carolina


Trillium grandiflorum, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina


Mark Island lighthouse, Winter Harbor, Maine


Fall migrating Monarch butterfly, Holly Springs, NC


Mountain stream, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee


Prickly pear cactus bloom, Holly Springs, North Carolina


Shelf fungus on a log, Acadia National Park, Maine


Yellow-bellied slider, American Tobacco Trail, Durham, North Carolina


Tiny cabin, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee


Black rat snake, American Tobacco Trail, Durham, North Carolina


A tree root hugging an oval rock, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee



Saturday, March 18, 2017

2016 A Photographic Log, Part I



Great blue heron and turtles, American Tobacco Trail, Durham, North Carolina


Cosmos, Holly Springs, North Carolina


Storm over the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee


A leaf slowing giving up its chlorophyll to autumn, Holly Springs, North Carolina


Dendrobium Orchid, Holly Springs, North Carolina


 Elk, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina


 Fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Maine


 Fall migrant, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Holly Springs, North Carolina


Frye pond, Massachusetts


Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee


Spider orb web in the morning light showing the supporting threads for the radials and iridescence, Holly Springs, North Carolina


 Willets and chicks, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina


Tide Pool, Acadia National Park, Maine


Mountain stream, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee


Circumhorizontal arc, Holly Springs, North Carolina