Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Reflective

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward.
I reflect with a purpose.
- Kobe Bryant

Shared for Thematic Photographic 292 - Reflective, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

More interpretations at UE’s Weekend Challenge.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Osprey - Harris Park - Revisited

After birding around the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge stopped at Harris Park in Cayuga NY. Two ospreys were on the nest adjacent to the Town Office building. But as I drove into the parking a fisherman also drove in and the birds flew off.

But as I was leaving one Osprey returned to a pole in the park with a fish in its talons. Spent around 20 minutes watching the bird have lunch before it took off.

Previous visit.

Red Rose

My love for you is like a red, red rose,
It started as a seed but it’s grown and grown.
- Sam Fedarb

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Osprey - Harris Park

Harris Park
Cayuga NY

Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat,
- Henry David Thoreau 

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.
Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat,
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Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat,
Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/subject/ospreys?page=1#jfj3BbjcQbCWHuxG.99
Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat,
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Fog

Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
- Billy Joel

More interpretations of Fog at Photo Sunday.

Selected as a winner for “Fog”.
Thank you for this Honor.

All you need is love

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy
- All You Need is Love (Beatles)

More interpretations at Song-ography.

More interpretations of Best Of Challenge Week 17 at Photoblog Challenges.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Mom

Hoopes Park

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

More interpretations at UE’s Weekend Challenge.

Pinwheel

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
- Christina Rossetti
 
More interpretations at walllked palm tree....

Redhead

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
Auto Drive

 Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
- Richard Lewis

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Blue Mt. lake

For Ice Boats Only

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Red Felt

Union Gables B&B

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
- George Burns

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Mourning Dove

Upon departing after our stay at Union Gables,
noticed a pair of Mourning Doves nesting in an arbor
adjacent to the parking area.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Whiteface Mountain

Utopia means elsewhere.
- John Malkovich

More interpretations of Utopia at Photo Sunday.

Sounds of Silence

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
- Simon and Garfunkel

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Cross

SS Peter & Paul

O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!
That Pentecost when utterance clear
To all men shall be given,
When all shall say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/e/easter_quotes.html#LAXu1WQUm6g9qWy1.99
O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!
That Pentecost when utterance clear
To all men shall be given,
When all shall say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/e/easter_quotes.html#LAXu1WQUm6g9qWy1.99
O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!
That Pentecost when utterance clear
To all men shall be given,
When all shall say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/e/easter_quotes.html#LAXu1WQUm6g9qWy1.99
O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born!
- James Russell Lowell

More interpretations at UE’s Weekend Challenge.

Blue Mt. Lake

...mountain parks
... useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers
but as fountain of life.
- John Muir

More interpretations at April sunrise.

 More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Coccinella magnifica

1st sighting 2014

How brave a ladybug must be!
Each drop of rain is big as she.
Can you imagine what you'd do,
If raindrops fell as big as you?
- Aileen Fisher

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Gray Pussywillow

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
- Wallace Stevens

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Tree Swallow

Martens Tract

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
- Florence Welch

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Neighorhood

And this is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
- Nickelback

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Footbridge

Faith is a footbridge
that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm
until you're forced to walk out onto it.
- Nicholas Wolterstorff

More interpretations of Footbridge at Photo Sunday.

Tree Swallow

Martens Tract

What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? 
- Bridgekeeper (Monty Pyhthon and the Holy Grail)

More interpretations at after the holiday wave...

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Chipping Sparrow

Backyard Visitor

To become a sparrow you don't have to be a crow.
- Munia Khan

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Friday, April 11, 2014

William H. Seward

On Wednesday morning, April 9, 2014, a sign was hung from the arm of the William H. Seward statue in Seward Park in Auburn, NY. The sign refers to a dispute behind the removal of a valuable and historic painting from the Seward House Museum.

The Auburn Police Department reported that it had not received a complaint about the sign, but the APD stated that this type of activity could lead to a charge of trespassing.

Orange Crocus

It takes courage to be crocus minded.
... because they believe in Spring
- Jo Sorley

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!.

Lake Ontario

Broadway Road

Our Great Lakes, ...
The least we can do is protect it,
and the way of life it provides for so many.
- Candice S. Miller

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Sign of Spring


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson
More interpretations at signs, signs.

Everything's gone green

Galanthus 
(Snowdrop; Greek gála "milk", ánthos "flower"

Snowdrops
I like to think
      That, long ago,
     There fell to earth
               Some flakes of snow
           Which loved this cold, 
            Grey world of ours
          So much, they stayed
                As snowdrop flowers.
                                                                               - Mary Vivien

Shared for Thematic Photographic 289 - Everything's gone green, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Common Grackle

Backyard Bird Feeder

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
- Victor Hugo

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Muskrat Shadow

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Drive

Floatin' like the heavens above
- Captain and Tennille

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Happy

Can't nothing bring me down
My level's too high
- Pharrell Williams

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Frail

Milkweed

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
- John Still

More interpretations of Frail at Photo Sunday.

Selected as a winner for “Frail”.
Thank you for this Honor.

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge - Wildlife Drive

Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Great Blue Heron
Tundra Swans
Canada Geese

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife
are in fact plans to protect man.
- Stewart Udall
More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.