Sunday afternoon

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - A good Sunday afternoon. The light was right and the subject cooperated.

Sunday morning

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - There was a half moon floating in a blue sky and a green home made appearing catamaran floating on the blue-looking Halifax river water near our house Sunday morning. The boat, with all sorts of things lashed to it certainly looked to be this mans home. Using sail-power it doesn't cost too much to wander up and down the inter coastal waterway.

Thanksgiving update

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - 81-degrees. A slight breeze and some clouds. Thanksgiving buffet at Brian's BBQ in DeLand. Turkey and all the trimmings; iced tea and pecan pie and apple cobbler. And we thought about going back again for more. Nah.

This way, that way

DE LEON SPRINGS - - If you're flying, this is the way to go...or is it that way to go. Anyway, the Great Blue Heron at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Reguge took off when we got too close. Under overcast conditions one of the only ways to get anything usable with a 300mm lens was to bump the asa/iso to 1600 @ 1/500.

We're still here

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - We've eased back into being home so well that it seems like we never left. So we're back to haunting our old habitats looking for photo subjects. Wednesday, we went to a couple of our close by favorites. One (noted on Lydia's blog) was picturesque but lacked birds. The other, a nature walk in Flager Beach, produced the accompanying shots of a Great Blue Heron checking out things from his bushy perch and a Tricolored Heron standing one-legged on an out cropping of empty oyster shells.