Secrety Beauty

Secrety Beauty

Secret Beauty With the bumper crop of apricots ripening on my tree I’ve spent most of the last two days preserving literally hundreds of them. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered a laybug tucked behind one of the stones of an apricot I was pitting....
Butterfly and Clover

Butterfly and Clover

Butterfly and Clover Although it was quite some time ago, I clearly remember photographing this little fellow. Remarkably, I was just inches away from him with a macro lens, but he just went about his business, floating among the clover blossoms. Photo...
Delicacy

Delicacy

Delicacy True strength is delicate. –Louise Berliawsky Nvelson   When I purchased the amazing zoom lens that was used to take this picture I had images of whales and other large mammals in mind, not insects. But just last week, while lazing on the porch glider...
Stung

Stung

Stung She said, “After you get stung, you can’t get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. ”   – Sue Monk Kidd   Photo Credits:  Yellow Jacket by Susan J. Preston. Bishop’s Garden in Washington, DC ©2007, all rights reserved...
Seeing the Taste of Honey

Seeing the Taste of Honey

Seeing the Taste of Honey Every time I see a bee I see the taste of honey.     Photo Credits:  Seeing the Taste of Honey by Susan J. Preston. Santa Fe, NM ©2018, all rights reserved Technical: iPhone 6+   More images and musings… Cascading Petals...