Images From My Day. May 11, 2008
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature.Tags: Hawley Bog, marsh marigolds, Shelburne
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Got to Hawley Bog by mid-morning, in time to feed the black flies. Yes, it’s May here too, and May means Mayflies, blackflies, les mouche noires. Voracious little bastards who will find a way through any discontinuity in your clothing to exact their pound of flesh (well, ok, a “pound” is exaggerating a bit, but they take a piece away and leave a bloody hole, so I’m not fond of them.)
But I got down on my belly and I took some pictures anyway:
I don’t know what kind of plant this is, but it was valiantly attempting to erect a solar collector above the saturated plane of the sphagnum moss, and Little Plant, I Salute You!
Then off to deliver Ultimate Spawn to her Mom’s house for a couple days, with a return trip through pastoral Shelburne. Here’s a view of a mowing field with violets erupting in a sea of dandelions:
…and along the way, a patch of Marsh Marigolds in a wetland, with a guest thinning out the pollen:
It was a beautiful day despite the bugs.
really neat. very bright!
bugs? ick!
Very nice. Do I detect manmade structures in that second picture?
The expanse of green and blue is really striking in that picture.
These are absolutely STUNNING!! [is it just me, or are my comments on all of your photos the same combination of awe and pride every time? sorry for the redundancy... I guess you're just that great. ;)]
The Shan and I are in agreement- time to quit the dayjob, Pop, and get yourself on board with some Nature Buff magazine or somesuch. Your pictures are just as good or better than some of the “best of the best” we’ve seen in “claaaaassy” publications!
EP, your totally unbiased opinion is, of course, accepted at face value.
And DC, yes, I’ve learned that sometimes the elements of a photograph which aren’t the focal point provide context without which the composition suffers, and I’ve softened my stance on including things not strictly natural.
Hope that works for people.