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  • New Classes with Ray Hennessey

    New Classes with Ray Hennessey

    For Christmas this year, Tom got me the greatest present known to mankind, six months of instruction with the Great Ray Hennessey.  I met Ray maybe six years ago.  Somebody told me about him when I needed someone to show me how do Lightroom and how to set it up.   He is a…

  • The Pileated Woodpecker – Valley Forge

    The Pileated Woodpecker – Valley Forge

     It was an overcast day in Valley Forge and the Pileated Woodpecker was in his usual grove of trees.  He knew I was there, but still posed for a great flight shot.  Love when that happens!!

  • Back in Gear

    Back in Gear

     Way back in November I had an appointment with my dermatologist and she found a few suspicious spots on my head and shin.  Biopsies were taken and the head spot was found to be a basil cell skin cancer. I had it removed and all healed well.  The shin spot came back negative.  However,…

  • Duet

    Duet

     Carolina wrens singing in harmony at Eastern College Pond.

  • Country Road in the Fog wins Second Place in Betterphoto.com!!!!

    Country Road in the Fog wins Second Place in Betterphoto.com!!!!

    We were sitting in the front seat of a bus traveling somewhere near Burgundy, France.  It was a foggy morning with a beautiful tree lined country road ahead of us.   I took the picture through the front window and it worked!!  

  • Friendly Red Tail Hawk

    Friendly Red Tail Hawk

    I was walking down Gulf Road in Valley Forge yesterday, when I saw a hawk flutter down into the weeds to catch a little bird.  A few seconds later he flew up with his catch onto a nearby limb and devoured his prey.  I took a million photographs and followed him around as he…

  • The Woods off of Ship Road

    The Woods off of Ship Road

     I didn’t get out today until about noon, but still it was so darn good.  I walked the trail in the woods off of Ship Road to the end.  First I found the damselfly, then the wood frog, then the wrens discussing life, then the cardinal grabbing a berry, and finally a whole slew…

  • Fall Birds in Valley Forge – Oooh La La

    Fall Birds in Valley Forge – Oooh La La

    Bluebird Palm Warbler Ruby Crowned Kinglet Yellow Rumped Warbler   Downy Woodpeckers Bluebird Northern Cardinal

  • Stranded in Lyon

    Stranded in Lyon

    O.K. folks, it’s been way too long since I posted something in this interminable blog.  I am writing from  our little hotel room in Lyon, France.  Tom and I were on a long awaited honeymoon first to Paris and then on a Tauck riverboat cruise from Lyon to Cannes.  We were having the time…