a) reprise from April 2020
APR 30, exotic destination: Nome, Alaska
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a) reprise from April 2020:
APR 26, trees: gnarling
A continuation from the post of April 18
processing the morning's catch |
the "pelicatessen" reopens for lunch |
Henrietta poses for a formal portrait |
another five-lined skink |
tractor-seat plant |
snowy egret, afternoon fishing |
sediment balls, intertidal zone, sign of crabs' feeding activity. |
fiddler crab, carrying food, sandy edge of brackish marsh at low tide |
glossy privet hedge in bloom |
great blue heron, in crepuscular light |
sunset view from the boardwalk |
a) reprise from April 2020
Author's Note:
a) reprise from April 2020:
Start of the 'maiden voyage', 2015 (archival photo per RCH) |
a) reprise from 2020
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: star-nosed mole
Tom Lehrer, parodist |
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green anole, on backyard fence |
Henrietta, the sociable great egret, at Shem Creek boardwalk |
"Blue-tailed skink", the origin of that common name is obvious here; (juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks have a similar appearance) |
a weight-lifting skink |
foraging nocturnal opossum captured in our porch light |
Henrietta watching kayakers |
"Hop to it" (on one leg), peculiar habit of many shorebirds |
African iris (floral break from all the fauna) |
pelican flight |