Fall 09. Coyote Creek.

roots and branches, 11/13/09

the roots and branches are both above and below the water - the leaves aren't attached to either and are just floating.

Fall 09, Crooked Creek Lake

Fall 09, Crooked Creek Lake 2

Fall 09, Shroom Art in the woods behind our house

Fall 09, Coyote Creek

Fall 09, Alfie on Coyote Creek

Peaceful Yellowwood Lake

same place, very different day (11/02/09)

Fall 09, Reflections on the woods behind our house

Fall 09

More reflections on the woods behind our house

Still more reflections...

And one more from the same day behind our house.

Fall 09 color layers, Coyote Creek

Fall 09, great day along a Crooked Creek ridge

Fall 09, more shroom art

Fall 09, just an interesting shroom

Fall 09, pond behind our house

There was a space of about 3 hours when this looked this way - 3 hours in 2 years.

Fall 09, fun with shrooms

Fall 09, more fun with shrooms

Fall 09, Crooked Creek Waterfall 1

Fall 09 Crooked Creek Waterfall 2

Fall 09 Crooked Creek Waterfall 3

Fall 09, some color below our house

Fall 09, again, the woods below our house

1/17/08.

A rainy morning in the snow along Salt Creek.

I'm still working on the correct designation for this guy. If anyone knows, please let me know.

The moment, not the view. Salt Creek valley behind our house.

May Day at North Fork, '09

A really wonderful, windy, gusty day. I really like the light in this shot.

3/13/09

I've been along this ridge 50 times before, but the shadow lines have never been this interesting.

Reflection on unnamed creek.

North Fork in early September - colors getting interesting

snow crease

Amazing variety of greens at Yellowwood Lake.

This is the way it was, folks, at least for a few days on that particular year. (i.e. Not just 'created' on photoshop.)

Crooked Creek Waterfall, Oct. 18, '06

The FungusAmongUs

Apparently I was supposed to photograph this because the only beam of light in the woods illuminated it very precisely.

Same thing.

Crooked Creek

The (very) little falls below the bigger falls.

Foggy Birdmarsh 16

Jackson Creek

Hank's Pond, misty sunrise, July 14, '07

The dogs and I got out at 6:30 am to experiment taking RAW pictures in the mist.

Just off Scarce O'Fat

This and the next 2 shots are a continuing effort to capture the high-canopy woods dappled light effects. It gets very dark in places with little bits of bright light penetrating.

same spot, different day and time

at the top of Caldwell Hollow. Alfie thought he'd add to the shade effect.

Early May along the Tecumseh Trail

Yellowwood snow storm

Yellowwood Lake

Early morning sun shining under a huge pine canopy. 11/4/08

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (black female form)

Reflections on a clear stream.

Ok. Occasionally I descend into 'art'. Nature sometimes just insists.

a few years old, but still one of my sunrise favorites

Sorry, have to run.

Yellowwood Lake, Fall '07

Snow and Ice on warm ground

North Fork Marsh.

Drover is hoping Alfie will chase a deer his way. I'm just enjoying the effect of the late afternoon sun.

Evening sun on ice, the pond below our house.

more '08 fall color

another example of the incredible range of light to dark in the deep woods.

Hiking along a snowy Salt Creek

first good color, fall '08, a Yellowwood ridge

Columbus' Eclipse, 2/20/08

Just for fun.

texture

more texture

Evening falls on North Fork marsh

Crooked Creek Woods.

Crooked Creek in the Rain

Yellowwood Oct. 17 '06

My Monet series. There were 2 days when the light, the leaves, and the water level were just right for this group of pics.

Again Monet

Monet with Geese

More Monet with Geese

Salt Creek, 6:30am July 14, '07

Another RAW pic.

Foggy Swamp 6

Foggy Birdmarsh 10

Foggy Birdmarsh 11

Tree Swamp, northern edge of Lake Monroe

Northern Lake Monroe swamp again, with diagonal shadows

The dogs almost ran over him. That could have turned ugly.

The dogs decided that this one wasn't worth the hassle.

Yellowwood Jan. 10 '07.

A classic Yellowwood view, though by this time of year this puffy layer of leaves would normally have been plastered down by a snowfall.

The light was just right in the late afternoon.

TALL pine woods (note Drover the Dalmatian for scale) at the top of Yellowwood Lake.

Our pond in the mist.

Salt Creek Sunrise

Not the Okeefenokee.

The swamp on the north end of Yellowwood Lake.

Sunset on Lake Monroe.

A day to reflect, as it were.

Invasive species or not, purple loosestrife can brighten up a view.

Nature can sometimes place lily pads just as artfully as any human pond designer.

Monarchs on Butterfly Weed.

Luckily, the dogs narrowly avoided running over these guys at the start of our hike yesterday.

Running Deer 1

Running Deer 1

Running Deer 2

Running Deer 3

Ajuga

Yellowwood Lake

A variety of spring greens. Totally unretouched, in case you were wondering.

The same spot in the winter

Caldwell Hollow

The mossy rocks at the head of the holler. More winter color variety.

The same spot in the summer.

The same spot after a good spring rain. 5/14/09

Same spot in the fall.

same spot, late October, morning light

The same spot in the snow.

Sunset on Lake Monroe taken from Dave and Susan's Boat.Calm

White Brood X Cicada

Dog-Toothed Violets

Dutchman's Britches

Six Degrees of Sunrise (on a very cold morning in Jeff's yard)

Crooked Creek Lake, misty sunrise

Crooked Creek Lake

Early morning mist.

Bluebell

From Salt Creek Valley.

Wild Geranium

Phlox

Spiral Young Beech, Scarce o' Fat Trail

Sunset, Yellowwood

Wildfowl Resting Area, Lake Monroe

A 2 1/2 second exposure on a foggy evening.

Crooked Creek Lake on a Fall Evening

Crooked Creek Lake, Fall '05

Dutchmen's Britches

Leaves on the water at sunset

A frosty sunrise next to Salt Creek

Another cold Salt Creek Sunrise

More Burnished Beech Leaves

Mossop Ridge

It's always good to look up once in a while.

Wildfowl Resting Area again, Lake Monroe

From a ridge overlooking Lake Yellowwood

Dog-Toothed Violet

Jacob's Ladder

A Snowy Salt Creek

Phlox

Salt Creek Sunrise, 10/30/05

Spring Beauties

Noone ever gets close enough to appreciate some of these tiny wildflowers.

Surprise Snow, Yellowwood Lake

Trillium against fallen log

Wild Geranium, backlit

Wildflowers by Salt Creek

Jackson Creek

Salt Creek Valley behind our house

More spring greens

Naturally framed

Where a little light penetrates.

Alfie the dog on a typical trail.

Crooked Creek Lake

Fall Wildflowers

Salt Creek

Salt Creek below our house

Our woods are made a wintertime treat for me by the bronzed young beech leaves that last all winter.

Bronzed young beech leaves, blue water.

A nearly frozen Salt Creek.

Foggy Swamp 7

Foggy Swamp 9

Foggy Birdmarsh 12

Foggy Birdmarsh 13

Foggy Birdmarsh 18

Foggy Birdmarsh 19

Foggy Birdmarsh 20

Foggy Birdmarsh 21

Just a peaceful moment in time.

The Abandoned Farmstead

Someone used to live in a grove of huge oaks on the edge of Hank's field, close to Salt Creek. This was what they had to look at every day.