Received this from Ed Herbst of South Africa today. It has quite a few hits already so you may have already seen this, but what a truly beautiful site…… Thank you Ed….
Archive for the 'Nature’s Beauty' Category
Yosemite's Horsetail Falls...Fire in Motion
Calculating any number of factors is part of the iffy equation of getting the right shot in February of Yosemtie’s Horsetail Falls. The logistics….
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There are some excellent outdoor photographers that drop by here now and then. I have their sites down the right side of my blog listings. I like the work of Jeffrey Foltice too. Check out PhotoNatureBlog.
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Kenneth Libbrecht takes some extraordinary photo’s of snow crystals…check out this link at CalTech called SnowCrystal.com
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INTERESTING HISTORY ON SPACE WEATHER EVENTS
AURORA BOREALIS OVER KENAI ALASKA (Telegraph.UK)
| “Spaceweather.com has an alert service you can subscribe to. I got it about a month ago. It sends you a message when there is magnetic storm event being triggered by a solar storm so you can be on the lookout for northern lights. Pretty cool. These are spectacular events to witness. I’ve seen several good ones and it can be so “other worldy” that you almost have to pinch yourself to make sure it’s not some kind of dream! Hollywood can’t touch this stuff!
We are heading into a solar peak and the next couple years are expected to be very active (hopefully not to active) as we are coming out an inordinately long solar minimum. Keep an eye out, if you catch a good one you will never forget it.” Wayne Mumford @ Will Fish For Work |
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03
Sep
11
Yellow Water Lily Umbrellas
A Yellow Water Lily on a late Summer afternoon on an Oregon lake. Big trout cruised beneath, toward the reeds, looking for those emerging damsels and dragons.
06
Aug
11
Fly Fishing: Bug Catcher
Common Garden/Cross Spider (Araneus diadematus) SwittersB
To me, there is nothing seemingly ‘common’ about this spider. It was a long ways from any garden as well. As I explored along the rocky shoreline of the Clackamas River, I came across this sizable spider working away on a web. A steady up river breeze ushered along hatches of assorted Caddis, PMD’s and midges. Remnants of a sizable Stonefly emergence littered the moss covered boulders. This busy spider prepared to intercept some portion of the shore bound insects. Once he was done, he tucked himself beneath some mossy growth attached to a boulder that supported his fly catcher. You are exactly right: the fishing was less than stellar on the Clack/Collawash R., so I passed off the time looking about the shoreline for this and that.
Cross Spider Hiding and Waiting for a trapped morsel (SwittersB)
Mt. Hood National Forest Proposes Decommissioning 255 miles of Collawash River Drainage Roads
Outdoor Life, 1962
Great idea. Just don’t let it be a vehicle driven by those that aim to control every aspect of your life. All sounds good ’til the never ending reg’s result.
17
Jun
11
Stop and smell the roses…….
Poppy & Honey Bee (SwittersB)
Well, in this instance, I wouldn’t put my nose down toward that Poppy. Snapped with a cell phone outside my aunt’s home. Busy bee amidst the beauty of a Poppy. It was a moment of beauty while removing my aunt from her home and placing her in an adult foster home.
30
May
11
A Bright Spot, A Retreat…
Bright Spot (SwittersB)
Why do we/you fly fish? A new challenge, like golf, like skiing? To be with special friend(s), who attaches great significance to the endeavor, so you do too? To fidget and fuss with gear; a love affair with process and preparation? To be near water, wind and the irregular edges of earth? “The moment”? The take, the pulse, the power, the holding on? The catch/the kill? The catch/ the release? The reverence for a creature described as possessing but a pea brain, but that possesses your mind, heart, some would say your soul? The draw of the group, the associated bonding of the group and memories? Egocentrism, elitism, distinction? Goofball fish porn, bumism, machismo, rebel without a cause? Individuality and solitude?
After the preparation, anticipation, tinkering, tying, technical how to’s, talking, following the contemporary trends (as you may have since middle school)…..why, in your mind, do you fly fish? Strip away all the trappings and I hope you settle upon a renewing force beneath the trappings. It will be a bright spot in your life, drawing you back to rebuild, rejuvenate, re-gain your bearings.
