Monday, April 30, 2018

Community Mosaic Project

Under Construction

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
- Erich Segal

More interpretations at Monday Mural.


Blue Bayou

Linda Ronstadt

Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou
- Roy Orbison


More interpretations at Foto Tunes.

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Northern Shoveler

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge


Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck.
leads the flock to fly and follow.
- A Chinese proverb
 
More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

More interpretations at Camera-Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Rather Be Birdin’.

Harris Park


Wednesday, April 25, 2018

P is for Pokeweed


Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods
And in the fields looks somethin' like a turnip green
And everybody calls it polk salad, polk salad
- Tony Joe White

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

First Daffoils 2018


A host, of golden daffodils;
- William Wordsworth

More interpretations at Weekend Green.

More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Blue-winged Teal

MNWR - Auto-Drive

Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
- K. Flay

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Artist in Residence

The Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- H. G. Well

More interpretations at Tuesday Treasures.

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Red Doors

United Methodist Church
Lowville NY

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
- Emily Dickinson

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Tom Coughlin Mural

Harry's Waterloo NY

Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.
- Tom Coughlin

More interpretations at Monday Mural.

Route 66

Asleep At The Wheel

If you ever plan to motor west,
- Nat King Cole

Video

More interpretations at Foto Tunes.

Sunday, April 22, 2018

O is for Osprey

Amidst the morning haze,
Bright eyes stare out from part-cocked head
- Steve Hagget

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

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More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Rather Be Birdin’.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Crocus

... The yellow crocus for the gem Of his authority!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Monday, April 16, 2018

Wildlife Mural

Savannah NY
Rt. 31

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
- Stewart Udall

More interpretations at Monday Mural.


Yes, I' Ready

Barbara Mason

Dee Dee Bridgewater recently did a cover of this tune.


More interpretations at Foto Tunes.

Red's Sandwich Shop

Salem MA

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
- James Beard

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Osprey Nest

Harris Park
Cayuga NY
(nest on second pole)

... as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.
- William Shakespeare

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

American Wigeon & American Coot

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

Vainly the fowler’s eye
Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, 
- William Cullen Bryant

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

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More interpretations at Rather Be Birdin'.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

N is for Nightlife

I wouldn't say the nightlife for anybody in New York is all that wholesome.
- Terry Farrell

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

South Spring Pool

... can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

The Red Door


 
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, April 9, 2018

Kool-Aid Kid

Country Store Antiques
Bernhards Bay NY

A 5-cent package makes two quarts.
Kool-aid slogan

More interpretations at Tuesday Treasures.

Macedon Mural

"Clang, clang, clang" went the trolley
- The Trolley Song

More interpretations at Monday Mural.

L. O.V. E.

I love music so much I love what I do.
- Diana Krall
 

More interpretations at Foto Tunes.

Blue Morning Glory

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Montezuma National Wildilife Refuge - Auto-Drive

Northern Shoveler
Green-wing Teal
Red-wing Blackbird
American Coot
Song Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Harris Park
Cayuga NY

More interpretations at Camera-Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

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More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Great Blue Heron

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Friday, April 6, 2018

Snowdrops B&W

Galanthus nivalis
If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
More interpretations at The Weekend in Black and White.

Common Snowdrop

Galanthus nivalis

If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.


Green-wing Teal

Montezuma National Wildlife Auto-Drive

Be like a duck.
Calm on the surface,
but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
- Michael Caine

More interpretations at Weekend Green.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Wolf Tree poem

Cayuga College Trail

One day I’ll climb higher than you can imagine
- Dave Calder

More interpretations at Thematic Photographic 418 - Trees.

M is for Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca
South Spring Pool

The satin softness of thy plumed seed,
Nor so profane thee as to call thee weed,
- Lloyd Mifflin

More interpretations at Tuesday Treasures.

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Red-winged Blackbird

Montezuma Wildlife National Refuge

a red winged blackbird 
barked his sermon
from a (twig) pulpit
- Anthony Slausen
 
More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too. 
 
Video 
 
More interpretations at Foto Tunes.
 
More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday. 

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Snow Geese

Knox-Marcellus Marsh in the Montezuma NWR.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Lao Tzu

More interpretations at Camera-Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Rather Be Birdin’.

Happy Easter 2018