nature tales and camera trails

I sawthis beautiful Monarch  butterfly yesterday morning morning near a milkweed patch!This year we have a beautiful Ivory Silk White L...

We have been experiencing so many rainy and cloudy days and nights that it was real treat early yesterday evening to look up at the sky and...

Earlier this week I was sitting on my back deck reading when I heard a loud "squawk".  I looked up and saw an adult Sapsucker ha...

This might be an example of "the earliest bird gets fed first.  While watching out my window I saw this seed exchange taking place.  ...

Yes, these are traditional red poppies although they appear to be part red and yellow.  the yellow is the back lighting from the sun and ...

after hearing a loud bird squawk I turned to find the noisy source and someone nearby pointed out this Pleated woodpecker to me on a nearb...

 Sometimes when you see something pretty and soft you just want to reach out and touch it. Like when I saw this rosy Maple Moth snuggled u...

I live quite close to the railroad tracks and so the other day while out on a walk I heard a train coming.  I hurried down a little incl...

I saw this colourful florescent green beetle while walking along the railroad tracks yesterday.  Its striking flourscent green metallic co...

When I awoke this morning I knew I wanted to go to the Currie Pond in the Currie Woods and look for snapping turtles and Lady slippers...

These poppies are my anxiously awaited favourite bloom in our garden.  Faithfully every June they begin to open, and its fun each day to a...

A white-spotted sable moth for mellow yellow Monday the yellow feature on this tiny moth is found on both sides of the mot...

A big "thank you" goes to my neighbour  Dave,for alerting me to this handsome moth visiting in his yard. It is a Hyalophora col...

                                        If you enlarge this photo you will be able to see some Common  Murre flying across the front o...

. On May 19, 2012, my daughter and I took a boat tour with O'Briens out of Bulls Bay, Newfoundland.The tour took us out to the Witle...

Butterflies are a delightful nature accent to each day at this time of year.  We have an old lilac tree (bush?) which attract several of t...

As we were driving along  a forested road, this horse-sized woodland creature suddenly loomed on the shoulder of the highway beside us, ...

Today I thought I would post a different sort of perspective, Rather than looking up at the sky I decided to look downward from the sk...

I have been so preoccupied with my own family lately that I neglected to even see these Canada geese babies when I took this pictur...

On a recent trip to Newfoundland last week to attend the Atlantic Book Awards with my daughter, where she received the John and Margaret...