I was using Photoshop to tinker with the contrast and highlights on this shot when the insides of the bee just sort of appeared out of thin air.
Bee (the rain)
August 21st, 2010Fishy
August 18th, 2010
If you look closely (you can click to enlarge the image) at the base of the stone arch bridge you’ll see a guy who’s busy fly fishing in the Mississippi river in Downtown Minneapolis. Then you also see the high tension power lines over his head, and the power plant smoke stacks and you wonder, would I want to eat those fish?
Butterfly
August 12th, 2010
Plus One Tree
August 7th, 2010
We planted a new tree on the boulevard in front of our house last weekend.
From the day our old maple was marked for removal (More Trees Please and Red Band Redux) to the day we put the new one in the ground was just over 10 months. Having paid out of pocket to have the stump ground out, and also paying for the new tree did help to expedite things. Plus, we got to pick the species (Autumn Blaze.)
Death Rides A White Squirrel
August 2nd, 2010
We found this sitting on a pile of compost that was left behind after the city had removed a dead and hollow tree along the river. All the plants, animals, bugs and the inevitable pieces of plastic that ended up inside the sheltered trunk came pouring out as the tree was cut off at the base. Sort of a natural time capsule that was opened up after who knows how many years.
Be The Rain
July 29th, 2010
I thought maybe posting number 100 would be a good time to give a little credit where credit is due.
Neil Young.
This site is named after a song of his. Postings also sometimes take titles from his work (Down By The River, Birds, One Of These Days, Sleeps With Angels, Rust Never Sleeps, Harvest…)
A great artist and a great friend of Mother Nature.
Cheers Neil, and Thanks.
Down By The River
July 24th, 2010
Needed a little time off from postings.
Back now, hopefully with a little more regularity. Took this shot of our local hydro-electric feature. The water at the base of the dam is teaming with fish feeding on algae, and then of coarse the heron, hawks, falcons and eagles all stop by for a snack.
I don’t hear much talk of this dam being controversial, but others sure are. Here’s a good example of one group trying to reverse the ecological impact these structures can have on the world around us: http://www.hetchhetchy.org/
George
July 13th, 2010
7.4.’91 – 7.13.’10
Rest in peace buddy.
Glean Me
July 5th, 2010
I did a posting last year that talks a little bit about free food in the public domain (Harvest). This time though, I can get specific, and point out that right now you have a good chance to make one hell of a nice mulberry pie if you go up to 34 Crocus Place here in St. Paul. Plenty of ripe fruit hanging out over the street just waiting to be gleaned.
The Big Build Completed
June 28th, 2010
Last week we went back to the Arb and had the chance to see the finished product. The completed work is expected to be left standing in place for at about two years. Should be fun to see it this winter covered in fresh snow.
Right now some of the Maple and Willow branches and saplings have starting leafing out again, despite the fact that they were just cut off and stuck into the ground.
Gives it an interesting added texture.