The Urban Pantheist

This is one of my favorite views of Antigua. The trees are visible from the house, and we worry that they might be torn down when the top of the hill is developed.

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I recently got a new lens for the new camera. It's a Sigma 28-80AF zoom with macro focusing ability. I haven't taken any really good Muddy River pics with it, so I thought I'd experiment with it on yesterday's walk at the Lost Pond Reservation. Pokeberries are fruiting, so my first picture was a shameless steal from one of Alexis' recent pictures.


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This morning my father in law and I went for a walk up the hill. I didn't identify the flowering plant breaking through the pavement. Can you?

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I'll remember this Thanksgiving for a long time, since I was given such a big thing to be thankful for: my father's life. Here's a whole mess of pictures that have nothing to do with anything, except they were taken more or less at the same place (Salem) on the same day (Thanksgiving). YES there are cute doggy pictures (JIM!).

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I could have spent the whole Yellowstone trip photographing wildflowers. I didn't, but I still captured a few. This one is a Penstemon, I believe Wasatch penstemon, specifically.

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Before we planned this trip, we considered trying to see the Spiral Jetty, an enormous piece of environmental art on the northern shore of The Great Salt Lake. Directions I found online made it seem very difficult to get to. It was. But we're glad we did it. 16 miles of unpaved road later--including the last two miles which seemed downright dangerous--and we found it. It's amazing to me that this thing is so remote and without any kind of interpretive signage or anything. Best of all, we finally got to see the Salt Lake.
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Yesterday we found a pretty area to walk around that turned out to be a water-filled clay pit between the town landfill and sewerage areas. This dragonfly hunts at Bountiful Lake, a man-made body of water in Bountiful Utah, just a few miles north of Salt Lake City. Town engineers four years ago decided to solve a runoff problem by diverting two creeks into a clay pit.

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I need to post these pictures before I load the new batch on to Photobucket or I'll go batty! This little guy was stuck to the zoo hospital one early morning. He was gone later when I remembered he was there.

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Last Wednesday I volunteered at the Antigua Humane Society. After I did some work, I took some pictures. ( Read more... )

Vermont has a lot more snow than Boston, and it's much nicer and fluffier.

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