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Happy Mother's Day Weekend!
May. 9th, 2010 03:36 pmIt has been too brisk and blustery to putter in the back yard, but it wasn't too brisk and blustery to head out with the Nikon.
Yesterday we started off at that interesting place along the Delaware River out behind the airport (Pat and Karen will remember us driving by it on the way to the airport and you may recall the photos I shared when Roy and I discovered it in 2007. The wind had whipped up some surf -- between the little breakers and the roaring in the leaves and branches we were quite overwhelmed with the sounds of nature. There were several families walking along the shortline. We were stopped by a township resident who wanted to make sure we knew that the planned expansion of the airport will cut off access to this bit of the river -- practically the only place with access from the mouth of the Schuylkill to some place south of Chester PA.
After that, we went to the John Heinz wildlife refuge on the other side of the airport. I took many photographs of yellow iris and we watched the bizarre courtship rituals of some fish with a big dorsal fin. I also caught a red-eared slider taking his ease on a branch and wondered if he were kin to any of the turtles we used to buy at Woolworth's for 29 cents -- along with their clear plastic habitats that included a tasteful plastic palm tree.
Along the Delaware and at Heinz we more or less took nature as we found it. This morning we did Nature By Disney -- that is to say, some of the woodland walks at Longwood Gardens, where the branch that falls on Saturday night has been whisked away by Sunday morning and were all the flowers are beyond beautiful. But that's nice, too.
I have about 130 photos left from the first culling and look forward to editing and sharing.
Yesterday we started off at that interesting place along the Delaware River out behind the airport (Pat and Karen will remember us driving by it on the way to the airport and you may recall the photos I shared when Roy and I discovered it in 2007. The wind had whipped up some surf -- between the little breakers and the roaring in the leaves and branches we were quite overwhelmed with the sounds of nature. There were several families walking along the shortline. We were stopped by a township resident who wanted to make sure we knew that the planned expansion of the airport will cut off access to this bit of the river -- practically the only place with access from the mouth of the Schuylkill to some place south of Chester PA.
After that, we went to the John Heinz wildlife refuge on the other side of the airport. I took many photographs of yellow iris and we watched the bizarre courtship rituals of some fish with a big dorsal fin. I also caught a red-eared slider taking his ease on a branch and wondered if he were kin to any of the turtles we used to buy at Woolworth's for 29 cents -- along with their clear plastic habitats that included a tasteful plastic palm tree.
Along the Delaware and at Heinz we more or less took nature as we found it. This morning we did Nature By Disney -- that is to say, some of the woodland walks at Longwood Gardens, where the branch that falls on Saturday night has been whisked away by Sunday morning and were all the flowers are beyond beautiful. But that's nice, too.
I have about 130 photos left from the first culling and look forward to editing and sharing.
