Life and love are one. We are the #beloved in a divine love saturated universe. Merry Christmas, all, and a happy new year!
February: Peace
February 27, 2019. Hmm. Maybe 2019 was the year of the bird? In February I traveled to Albuqurque to attend the Episcopal Archdeacon’s annual conference. It was surprisingly cold. In Albuqurque? Yes, said the local I asked about it. People often underestimate how cold it gets in Albuqurque. So I really was not prepared to be out walking and shooting. But we always get a little time off at that conference, so I bundled up as best I could with what I had and paid a visit to San Felipe de Neri, the historic Roman Catholic church that dominates Old…
January: Hawk On!
January 1, 2019. I am driving Highway 2 to D’Arbonne State Park to lead a First Day Hike. As usual, my camera is on the passenger seat and I am keeping a sharp eye for photo opps along the way. I should have a bumper sticker that reads “I brake for raptors on power lines.” Because I do. And I have gotten good at spotting hawks along Louisiana country roads. Seeing them on poles is more common, but this one was sitting on the powerline, which sagged significantly between the poles. I pulled to the side of the road about…
#Message #AdventWord
What’s up with the markings on spiders? Over and over the sun glinting off a web clues me in. Look closely, a tiny creature might be home! And so I move about, taking care to not disturb the web, looking for the spider. And when I find it, I’ll shoot a dozen frames trying to make sure I have the best angle, the sharpest focus possible. Big spiders, like banana spiders, build huge orbs across wide trails. They’re pretty hard to miss. But tiny spiders? They are more discreet, their dinner-plate size webs more likely to be in thick stuff…
#Restore #AdventWord
Humans turned it into a toxic dump. Then humans turned it back into a spot of great beauty and biodiversity. The sign at the entrance to Restoration Park tells its story. For 50 years, it was the site of a sand and gravel mining operation. When it was “mined out” in the early 1970s, many people used it illegally as a dumping ground for all manner of refuse: trash, tires, dead appliances, nasty furniture. The City of West Monroe purchased the site in 1989 and the restoration began. It is now an urban wetland park and floodwater detention basin. Ouachita…
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