New York City

Central Park

2021-09-102021-09-09Sherry Felix8 Comments

First of the season Tuesday morning Central Park trip with Linnaean NY. No time for me to photograph much because we were running around looking for things like Yellow-billed Cuckoos.

Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina), Centrtal Park 9/7/2021

Central Park Art

2021-09-092021-09-05Sherry Felix15 Comments

I haven’t been to Central Park in quite a while. We went there on Saturday, September 4 for a morning walk. It was so nice to see so many of my birding friends there. There wasn’t a large number of birds, but the few I found where nice ones. The best was a humming bird and a Bay-breasted Warbler.

I spent a few hours today adding new backgrounds to these in Photoshop.

Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens), Central Park 9/4/2021

Little Island

2021-09-082021-08-31Sherry Felix9 Comments

Little Island is now open at 6 am on. It is nice to go there before the crowds.

There is a plastic camera glued to he road divide. I made a pattern out of the picture in Photoshop’s Library then adjusted it to fit over the image.

NYBG Scenes

2021-09-072021-08-30Sherry Felix9 Comments

6 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens. I know the frog isn’t a scene. I like frogs so I included it.

NYBG Plants

2021-09-062021-08-30Sherry Felix13 Comments

5 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens.

NYBG Lilies

2021-09-052021-09-05Sherry Felix12 Comments

Lotuses and Lilies

4 of 6 of the New York Botanical Gardens. I like the sculptural form of the lily seed pods. Each one is slightly different. I replaced most of the backgrounds and enhanced my photographs in Photoshop.

I just learned the difference between a lotus and a lily:

Lotuses belong to the family Nelumbonaceae. The leaves and flowers of a lotus rise above the water’s surface.
Water lilies belong to the family Nymphaeaceae. The leaves and flowers of a water lily float on the water surface. The leaves of a tropical water lily float on the water surface, but its flowers are about 6-8 inches above the water surface.