A morning visit from a Northern Flicker and an afternoon trip to Monte Sano State Park.
Random
Fall Leaves and Space Vehicles
The autumn leaves were beautiful today, but it’s hard to focus on trees when there are rockets and a Space Shuttle in the background.
During my college years at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, I grew accustomed to a landscape that included space vehicles. Today, standing at the foot of the original Saturn V lunar rocket, I experienced a wave of renewed awe.
(Photos taken at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.)
A Drive and A Walk
A Week of Travel
I’m in Alabama this week, visiting family. The yards here are busy with birds and squirrels, and the windows are bright with changing leaves. It all makes me as happy as a basking cat.
(I would love some help identifying the unfamiliar woodpecker, above. Is it a juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker?)
Insects in The Yard (Arachnophobia Alert!)
These images were selected for various posts in September and October, but fell short somewhere along the way. Some posts changed course, mid-process, and the photos were no longer relevant. Sometimes the photos were redundant or too tangential, sometimes they simply didn’t “fit”.
Whatever their failings, they’ve been collecting in a “Miscellaneous Insects” folder on my desktop. Today seemed like a good day to post them, before I sentence them to the External Hard Drive Archive…
Rae Spencer 