A personal photochallenge : Looking at a waterfall with a seasonal perspective

Fot this challenge of perspective and composition I have chosen a favourite location and topic.  It is of or at a small waterfall which we had found during the late spring or early summer of 2012.
This waterfall is only a few kilometers from our home. I go to see it and photograph it as often as I can.  My most recent photo of it was taken on Sunday of this past weekend.

  I have also been experimenting with a slow shutter of 1/4 sec. and I love the result of slowing down the action or movement of the water so that it appears white as is shown in the photo below.  Also the spread of the water at the base of the falls is white and frothy.

At the same occassion I took a picture of the falls without a slow shutter so you can see how the falls appeared naturally with no shutter adjustment as is shown above: notice the difference in the appearance of the fall of the water. The last photo above shows a choppy appearing flow. The change in shutter speed has made quite a difference.
I have tried to photograph these falls in different seasons. The next photos show snow on the ground although the falls were flowing freely.. The water movement over the falls seem more controlled in these photos. I don't know if the frigid temperature was an influence or not on the water movement.

 

Attempting to photograph these falls in all seasons the next two photos were taken in the

fall.  The first photo shown  below is a favourite of mine.  And although it was taken with a point and shoot camera it seems that the shutter might have been somewhat slower than usual as white waves or caps can be seen in the river above the falls

This photo below was taken on a beautiful sunny day in October.

And I was intententionaly leaving my summer photo until last.  Our summer of 2012 was very warm and so when my son and his family of three children arrived to visit I thought it would be a treat for them to visit my special waterfall.  It turned out to be rather a joke on me.  For due to the summer heat the waterfall was only a trickle!  What a surprise it was to see it in this condition!  I do hope that when they visit again this August they will be able to really see my waterfall!

So there you have it : A waterfall from the perspective of all seasons.

The waterfall is the Scribner Brook Falls along highway# 785.  You can find this highway from the Duplesia Road at Central Blissville, NB.  I hope you have enjoyed the waterfall visit.  May it  evercontinue to flow!

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Swallowtails feeding on Lilacs

I have been waiting for a Swallowtail butterfly  to feed on our Lilacs (which is a yearly happening), but although I had seen several swallowtails they did not feed on our Lilacs , until yesterday sfternoon that is!  Welcome Swallowtail, although there was just one of you and the visit was very brief, Please return with a few of your other flutterby buddies! I am waiting in my window with my camera for you!

Another Warbler in Bird Alley

 One positive result from having had so many rainy, wet, damp days recently has been an increase of bugs!  No, not for me, I do not love bugs but insect eating warblers do.  I had mentioned previously that we often have warblers visiting Bird Alley, but not for the bird food which I provide in my feeders but for the munchy bugs they can find about our trees and flowering, blossoming trees there.  This morning I spied movement among the leaves and I could see a little bird furtively moving about.  So, I waited ready with my camera, assuming as often will happen the bird will show itself.  My wait was rewarded with this

picture of a female Common Yellowthroat Warbler feeding there among the leaves and branches.  She is a beautiful little common  yellow throated warbler

A beautiful little butterfly!

I love butterflys and eagerly await their arrival and presence each year.  Earlier this week my husband described a little butterfly to me thatr he had seen in our dooryard.  From his words I told him he had probably seen an American Copper.  So when I saw an American Copper today across the street fro9m my house I was not surprised.  Luckily for me I also got its picture!

Gray Catbird Seen Yesterday

When you by chance might hear a slight mewing in the woods, do youknow that that sound is not necessarily made by a cat? Yes, there is a bird that meows! It is the Catbird!  And I saw a  Gray Catbird yesterday!  I usually see one each year in about the same location but yesterday's sighting seemed to be a bit early to me.  Catbird's like to nest in wild rose bushes.  That is how I first became accustomed to seeing them.  We have an old wild rose bush in Bird Alley and one year a Catbird pair built a nest in our rosebush. Our Rose bush used to be huge but we have since pruned it back.  It was so out of control and rambling. There is no sign of wild rose blossoms in Bird Alley yet and there won't be for a while.  That is why I say that the Catbird I saw yesterday seemed to be an early sighting.

The Catbird is a handsome slate gray bird with a black cap.  This photo is of the Catbird I saw yesterday.

Waning full moon in the Morning Sky

I missed the full moon on the 25th, but it was  large and beautiful and waning

in the sky this morning, easily seen and photographed from my driveway.

Brightly Coloured Goldfinch

It was with pleasure that I took this photo of a brightly coloured Goldfinch in Bird Alley yesterday afternoon, for it has seemed with the recent duration of rainy , dark days that all beauty and bright colour had left.  We have had very few bird visitors recently, thus this bright goldfinch attracted me.

I was assuming this was a male Goldfinch until I saw my next Goldfinch photo which had a full black cap! , and then I realized that in  my first photo pictured , although the Goldfinch had a brightly coloured lemon yellow body , it did not have a black cap!

Then looking carefully and by cropping I got a closer look at the first Goldfinch picture, and yes, I  

could see the beginnings of black starting to show on the bird's head.  So, yes I am calling it a male, but is it a mature male just having undergone a spring molt? or is it a young male just coming into its own by growing in its distinctive black cap?
Its not a big problem or an issue to me, just a reminder to me to look look carefully at what I am seeing before I jump to identification conclusions.
Nature has so much beauty to observe, just enjoy its beauty by taking that second look.
Have a great sunny, warm day everyone as such is forecasted today!!

Recent Rain Forest Weather!

There is nothing wrong with my camera, but its just that this is what our weather has been looking like the past few days. We are expecting sunshine this afternoon!!!!!!!  Yea for that little bit of weather optimisim!

Rain Filled River

It has been raining for days and it has turned our river into a taging, frothy picturesque scene

I went down  to the river with my camera and set my shutter at a slower speed and I am very pleased with the results of the action in the river by using a slower shutter speed at 1/4 second

 

Mother Natures 'Artistry

 

Johnny Jump Up

Beautiful Pansies, a beautiful work of art!

Star Flower in Bloom

A Butterfly!

Yesterday I took my first butterfly photo of the spring!  It was a Clouded Sulphur and just a few seconds from taking the picture we saw a Cabbage White Butterfly. Buttetrflies are such beautiful gracious creatures! It was very close to home so I shall check out that area again very carefully today

  a Clouded Sulphur butterfly

Rhodora wildflower

I had learned something new a few  springs ago!  I learned the proper name  ( Rhodora) of these beautiful, rosy, purplish flowers. I remember watching for these flowers every year as a child to come into bloom. My birthday is in June and I always felt that these beautiful flowers made the occasion a bit  more special for me. I had always known them as June flowers.I think that's what everyone around here called them. A couple of years ago I searched for their name, finding nothing named June flowers. So now, its almost June and look what I found this morning, my old misnamed June flowers. What a lovely delight when I came across them! How wonderful to find my old floral seasonal friends again, It is that sort of experience that makes me think of the 'loyalty of nature.. During March, 2010 I had bought a new book titled: Wildflowers of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island by Mary Primrose and Marian Munro, published by:Formac Publishing Company Limited, Halifax. At that time my husband was browsing through the book when he came upon my previously misnamed June Flowers., and thus we discovered.

 

Rhododendron canadense) It is a wiry shrub found in roadside ditches, swamps and bogs, growing to be about a meter or more high. The* Rhodora plant is closely related to ornamental Azaleas and Rhododendrons.

these rosy purplish blossoms arecalled Rhodora.