nature tales and camera trails

In our gaarden are many beautiful Tiger Lilies and in the center of each are tall stamens.  The tips of each stamen are covered with gold...

Above are five baby ducks following an adult duck into the reeds.  The adult is in the reeds to the upper far right. These two little...

Seeing as this is a rainy day,( thankfully!, our bedding plants have been drying up!) I have had to resort to my photo archives for this...

Its always exciting when I see that Common Primrose are in bloom for among the petals of its blossom I look for a beautiful pink treasure an...

I had been wondering where this little moth was this season as I had not seen it previously.  Early last evening I had taken a drive to a ne...

I remember being thrilled when I found a Zebra butterfly in Florida in 2000. Wow! Having left our New Brunswick winter of snow and ice behin...

We have a few sparrows around Bird Alley this morning and I know some of the Sparrows are Song Sparrows and maybe one or two  are Chipping S...

The  joys of nature are  many and often are so awe inspiring  and surprising! This morning I went out with my macro lens on my camera to see...

For a few years now we have watched a stray gray and white cat hunting through our property. We used to discourage its presence by shouting ...

  Y is for yellow .Yellow is a very prevalent colour in nature, so much so that many species in nature carry as their identification  a yell...

The all important beginning of life: eggs!  My husband spied these fascinating looking eggs on a Dandelion leaf and pointed them out to m...

June is the month to see snapping Turtles laying their eggs.  This scene is becoming quite repetitive for me.  These snappers are not a ne...

Not one , but two Geese families.  I go to this pond every day and I am very surprised that I had not seen these families there before! ...

Seeing a Monarch butterfly this mornings was a car-stopping event!  I try to follow and get a picture of every orange butterfly I see....

X is for Xanthous and also for Xanthotype Moth Xanthous is a Greek adjective used to describe a yellow colour.  I read in a couple of plac...

A few years ago I used to see a Muskrat often swimming in the river.  I knew the location of its home and knew where and when to watch for i...

This morning I left my house around 7a.m, just after my first coffee of the day.  I drove to the location where I had seen a Snapper laying ...