
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…

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!!

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,…

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!!

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…

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…

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

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…