Ode to Spring painted turtles

Ode to Spring painted turtlesA redwing blackbird sings the praises of spring.

close-up detail

A porcupine in Northern Vermont munches on a wild apple in late September

both during the day and also at night

Northern Vermont stream in this wide-angle panorama composed of seven individual photos

This is a stitched

Jupiter and Saturn are both visible just above the horizon

The mornings are cold with river valley fog often forming before daylight

early-summer day high in Montana's Spanish Peaks Range

especially in the summer

thrilled to see it faced the proper direction to show it at night under the rising Milky Way

One of my favorite trees

but the calls of a sandhill crane drew me into frozen cattails