Details from paradise
May. 9th, 2009 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelAs promised, the landscape, bird and wildlife shots from my trip north! For years, I've joked that it's kind of ironic that I like to vacation in the redwoods, given that I LIVE in a redwood forest. But things get colder, wetter, older and wilder as you head north of the logged over recovery zone where I dwell. There are fewer people, and the world is more intact. There are, for instance, still elk.
Stone and Raven.
This black oystercatcher was going about its business on some rocks right below a dock we were walking on. It was a really neat opportunity to get so close to a wild bird.
OK, more dogs in motion
Gull perched on stone
Cormerants in their element. It always amazes me when I see these birds at home in such deep, volatile waters.
This cormerant was kind enough to give us perfect profile.
Me photographing Java photographing the cormerant. >;D
Hey, I have a macro lens!
OK, so some of you may hate these, but I thought that the moment was glorious. These tiny spiderlings must have just hatched; they were in the moment of emergence and dispersal when we found them. What a tiny, lovely miracle; how much the epitome of spring, that life should be just dripping unnoticed out of the cracks and hidden places of everywhere. I'm also just misty-eyed about baby spiders because of 'Charlotte's Web," of course.
These guys were a challenge for my macro, too. They were tiny spiders.
On the other end of the spectrum, we found this beautiful herd of bull elk grazing in a meadow at the side of the road. I've never seen elk in velvet before!
Knobby antlers!
This guy had the biggest rack of the lot, so far. It amazes me that they grow such huge antlers every year.
And shedding out his winter coat, too!
I stopped for a little stroll through ancient giants in Humboldt Redwoods SP.
Stone and Raven.
This black oystercatcher was going about its business on some rocks right below a dock we were walking on. It was a really neat opportunity to get so close to a wild bird.
OK, more dogs in motion
Gull perched on stone
Cormerants in their element. It always amazes me when I see these birds at home in such deep, volatile waters.
This cormerant was kind enough to give us perfect profile.
Me photographing Java photographing the cormerant. >;D
Hey, I have a macro lens!
OK, so some of you may hate these, but I thought that the moment was glorious. These tiny spiderlings must have just hatched; they were in the moment of emergence and dispersal when we found them. What a tiny, lovely miracle; how much the epitome of spring, that life should be just dripping unnoticed out of the cracks and hidden places of everywhere. I'm also just misty-eyed about baby spiders because of 'Charlotte's Web," of course.
These guys were a challenge for my macro, too. They were tiny spiders.
On the other end of the spectrum, we found this beautiful herd of bull elk grazing in a meadow at the side of the road. I've never seen elk in velvet before!
Knobby antlers!
This guy had the biggest rack of the lot, so far. It amazes me that they grow such huge antlers every year.
And shedding out his winter coat, too!
I stopped for a little stroll through ancient giants in Humboldt Redwoods SP.
