Beauty Is Everywhere
- yesterday was an exception to my general state of never being depressed so I walked through our copse of wood and ended lying on my back in the leaves watching the sky and the changing hues of blue and wisps of cloud with the glint of sunlight resparkling the trees in random flow and the beauty that resides in everything turned my day around - and so with my handy photography machine that I seem to have always in hand I took this photo while still lying on my back and then those six or so that I posted yesterday - the eye of the beholder is everywhere
I am sometimes confused on whether to use 'lying or laying' but a good rule to remember is:
I am sometimes confused on whether to use 'lying or laying' but a good rule to remember is:
"The second definition of lying is,
quite simply, to be horizontal in your position. Lying down for a nap
will help me feel better.
It’s not uncommon for people to use
laying when referring to being in a horizontal position. It seems to be
the easiest of the definitions to get mixed up.
The definitions for laying become
simple when you look at them in their root form. Lay means the place.
Used in a sentence, you could say: Lay the school books on the table
and then go up to clean your room. Adding the ING suffix is simply a
function of sentence structure. Laying the school books on the table
she went up to clean her room. Most often you can check your use of the
word by replacing the word in the sentence with place. Placing the
books on the table she went up to clean her room.
Laying is also defined as producing eggs. The chickens are laying more eggs than we can eat."
Pre-fossilized
these leaves on the muddy surface of the drying creek bed are candidates for becoming fossils - but the odds are, that like most of the life that has existed on this earth for billions of years, they will simply decay and be absorbed rather than being sub-ducted by some earth upheaval that would supply the necessary conditions for being entombed in rock-to-be - and that makes me happy
While Early This Morningm -
- the non-migrating Canadian Geese fly from their flocking on the Elk River to farmers fields farther north [it has been many a year since the geese on the Chesapeake Bay region have done their normal migration to southern states]
Basking in February
these Painted Turtles (haven't decided if they are Eastern or Southern) are soaking up the rays on 24 February in approximately 75 °F (24 °C) instead of being buried in the mud beneath the 'normal' layer of ice that this time of year normally brings
One Hundred Eighty Degrees - now that's a twist
if you look closely you can see that the eagle has turned his head totally to the rear of his body to look at me photographing him and a moment later - off he flew
Red-shouldered Hawk - Buteo lineatus
The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk. Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico. Red-shouldered hawks are permanent residents throughout most of their range, though northern birds do migrate, mostly to central Mexico. The main conservation threat to the widespread species is deforestation. - from Wikipedia
Eastern skunk cabbage - Symplocarpus foetidus
The Eastern skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus as it looks in early spring before blooming - from Wikipedia but it describes my photograph exactly although it is mid February in the warmest winter that I have ever experienced
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus (24x zoom - and then enlarged)
he bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), our national bird,is the only eagle unique to North America. The bald eagle's scientific name signifies a sea (halo) eagle (aeetos) with a white (leukos)
head. At one time, the word "bald" meant "white," not hairless. Bald
eagles are found throughout most of North America, from Alaska and
Canada to northern Mexico. About half of the world's 70,000 bald eagles
live in Alaska. Combined with British Columbia's population of about
20,000, the northwest coast of North America is by far their greatest
stronghold for bald eagles. They flourish here in part because of the
salmon. Dead or dying fish are an important food source for all bald
eagles.
