Archive for June, 2007

Standing tall

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I have been limiting my blogging activities lately due to trying to figure out what is grabbing resources at my web host. I ‘ll post more about it when it is resolved. Until then, I’ll share a new image shot in my backyard recently. I still […]

Down time?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Please bear with any possible issues any visitors may be having here, or comments not showing up. I am experiencing some issues with my hosting service that I am trying to resolve. I already lost some updates and perhaps a few comments. Thank you for your patience. It is the first […]

Eye of the Swamp

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation… Swamps were generally seen as useless and even dangerous…
These are a couple of definitions I pulled off the web regarding the word ’swamp.’ I have often wondered about the negative associations […]

Don’t ignore your own yard…

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I don’t spend enough time in my own yard photographing the many critters that come to visit here. I have been pretty fortunate to catch a few rare ones, like the Coopers Hawk that was visiting for awhile. But I haven’t really spent enough time photographing the more “common” visitors, like […]

Songs of Insects

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I heard a fantastic story on my NPR podcast today, an interview with the authors of a new book on the songs of insects, Wil Hershberger and Lang Elliott. You can hear it here. As they mention in the story, there is an abundance of information about bird song, even frog songs, […]