Not much is happening this time of year at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Saint Louis’ Forest Park. The trees around their fence are filled with little birds making quite a ruckus. I spy several house sparrows in their breeding plumage and manage to get a few photos, but these little guys are a bit on the shy side and generally don’t like to show themselves.
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Day 43 - Sunset on the marsh lands /
The morning did not look promising and I had promises to keep (and miles to go before my sleep). Wife to hospital to have her broken arm fixed, clients coming at 10, 2 & 4, daughter to pick up from school at 5, son’s special college sports signing event at Soccer Park at 6, and somewhere in the midst of all that I needed to rescue the afore mentioned wife from
Read MoreDay 39 - Orion in the southern sky. /
Winter’s grip is still unbroken, in spite of a warm spell we had last weekend. My front yard is a sheet of ice, apparently from a water main break in either my yard or my neighbors. It was also an issue at my studio, where I’ve noted for some time that water seeps from under the building and flows down the parking lot entrance to the street. That flow of water was a sheet of ice this morning, about an inch thick in some parts. These midwestern winters
Read MoreDay 37 - For the birds /
The red-legged seriemas were flipping out as I walked into the bird house in the St. Louis Zoo today. I don’t know if they were protesting systemic injustice, or the fairness of their own incarceration or if they had been watching CNN or Fox News, but they were upset and making their displeasure known. The noise they were making was worse than a frat party and a lot more shrill. I stood for a minute and watched, then did what I always do to calm situations down;
Read MoreDay 30 - Coldest day of the year? /
Tonight at 9pm I was standing in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park photographing two men with leaf blowers blowing the snow off the steps and sidewalks. It was 5 degrees and snow was still coming down. My fingers were rather cold as I was shooting with my Fuji cameras and the controls on them are much harder to operate with mittens on than on my Canon cameras (they are much smaller). Both of my Fuji cameras have aluminum grip
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