A Grasshopper on a geranium plant
on the patio terrace
Photo by BT
September, 2008
"When all the birds are faint with
the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From
hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's--he
takes the lead In summer luxury--he has never done With his delights,
for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant
weed." ---John Keats
A Crab Spider on an Americana Dark
Red Blossom
September 2, 2008
"In his garden every man
may be his own artist without apology or explanation."
----Louise Beebe Wilder
A Praying Mantis in BT's back yard-a
photographer's dream
Photo by BT
August 17, 2007
"Nature is not a place to
visit, it is home."
- Gary Snyder
A butterfly visits the garden
August 10, 2007
"I go to nature to be soothed
and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
---John Burroughs
Hazlett
A garden spider
July 23, 2007
"I once had a sparrow alight upon
my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden,
and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance
that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."--- Henry David Thoreau
A White Crowned Sparrow in the grass
in the backyard garden
March 24, 2006
Photo by BT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
"Poor indeed is the garden
in which birds find no homes."
- Abram L. Urban
A Black
Phoebe rests on the new fence
March 22, 2006
"Gardens are a form of autobiography."
----Sydney Eddison
August 19, 2005: a spider explores
the White Nicole Ivy Geranium
Photo by BT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
"The means to gain happiness
is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an
adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes"
----Leo Tolstoy
Hummingbird at feeder: August 18,
2005
Photo by BT
A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies.
-
John Banister Tabb, Humming Bird
A bee visits an Iceberg Rose blossom
May 5, 2006
