Nature

Lit Reeds

2021-12-302022-08-15Sherry Felix10 Comments

While I tidy up my archives I paused to make this image.

Winter Grasslands

2021-12-232021-12-23Sherry Felix19 Comments

Shawangunk Grasslands NWR in March of 2021. I reworked and enhanced these two photographs. I haven’t been able to get out to shoot more new ones. The background in the bluebird picture is not the original one.

Robin

2021-12-212021-12-21Sherry Felix18 Comments

Edits to an old photo. A composite of several images converted and colorized.

European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), London 12/28/2015

Long Island 2011

2021-12-20Sherry Felix2 Comments

A couple of images from 2011 reprocessed.

Brant (Branta bernicla), Loing Island 12/18/2011

Boudinage

2021-12-192021-12-18Sherry Felix4 Comments

Revisiting an old image for reprocessing. Pelham Bay has lots of Fordham gneiss. Here is a dense article on the Bedrock Geology of New York City: More than 600 m.y. of geologic history (sunysb.edu). I love geology. It was my manor at Hunter College.

Geology lesson: Boudinage is a structure which is sometimes present in metamorphic rocks apparently as a result of tension and in which a competent bed is thinned and thickened so that it resembles in cross section a string of sausages (Webster’s).

Hunter Island granite with boudinage, Pelham Bay, NY 10/29/2001

Shinnecock

2021-12-182021-12-17Sherry Felix11 Comments

There is a Native American reservation out at the end of Long Island, New York in Suffolk County. We passed by the controversial billboard tribe put up for profit State Seeks to Stop Work on Second Shinnecock Billboard | The East Hampton Star. We went to Southampton Cemetery to buy grave plots for our green burials. It a good idea to plan ahead. I filled out the book “I’m Dead. So Now What” (catchy tile) so our next of kin or will know what to do when the time comes. Now that is done I can forget about it.

After a lovely seafood lunch at the Canal Cafe (thecanalcafe.com) we went to look for snowy owls. The caretaker, Eric, is a birder too and told us about the owls. I spotted 2 way off in the dunes. There was a women trespassing onto the dunes. Very bad behavior. After that I spotted another one a little closer to us on the crest of a dune along Shore Road.

Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), Suffolk County, NY 12/16/2021

Green-Wood

2021-12-152021-12-13Sherry Felix11 Comments

More pictures form our excursion to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The last photograph shows three obelisks. The third obelisk in the background is the Freedom Tower in Manhattan.