Picture-A-Week 2018 - Week 13

Pictures taken between Monday, March 26 and Sunday, April 1.

Spring has sprung.

Lovely to see the spring flowers.

Thanks for posting.

It'll be a few weeks before any flowers here.

This week I experienced another one of those times when being a lifelong fan of photography throws a stick in your personal schedule. At about 1:50 AM on Saturday morning our darling dog needed to visit the back yard for...reasons. I walked out back because the last Blue Moon until 2020 had turned night to twilight and I thought it was worth a look. I looked. Then I sighed in resignation and went back in the house with the dog. Getting back to sleep with a big bright moonbow hanging up in the sky and no photo was out of question. I got the camera off the desk, mounted the wide-angle lens and went back out with camera and tripod in hand. Sleep is overrated, eh?

Blue Moonbow

Dave

Sleep is overrated, eh?

 

Blue Moonbow

 

 

Dave

Certainly the case here. Nice shot!

Birds!

KYBOB

Love your pictures.

Dave

At least you got to see the Blue Moon.

We haven't seen any parts of a moon or the sun in weeks. All we get is rain or snow. Got another 2 inches of snow overnight.

Awesome moonbow! I've not seen one of those before.

Very cool to see other birds too - some that I don't get to see in my home area...very nice.

Here are some more birds and wildlife from my wetlands this past weekend:

A pair of mating dragonflies:

A lovely northern cardinal:

Closeup with a young alligator:

Watching wood storks try to one-up eachother with who can gather the biggest stick for their nest - I couldn't help but think of a quote from the movie Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a knife. THAT'S a knife!" This wood stork seemed to be proudly saying 'THAT'S a stick!:

A Cormorant cruising half-submerged:

Red Fox

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Thanks! Great shots zackiedawg!

Great shot of the moon Dave.

Allan

This is a photo from our weekly game of Ultimate Frisbee, the disc having just been thrown by the young lady.

Wine-aged cheese.

That cheese looks so good.