
A relatively quite morning. Lovely Fall Morning at Ward Bayou Friday morning at Ward Bayou, and it started out great. At the entrance, Patty was seeing and hearing quite a few forest birds, mostly deep into the trees where it is difficult to photograph. Normally we have Ward Bayou to ourselves but it is hunting…

Ready for Fall and a bit of Rain Patty is home, and Holly Berry, her dog companion, is so pleased! While getting settled, we have not done a great deal of exploring. We checked out Clower Thorton Park in Gulfport the other morning, and Jones Park while we were there. Yesterday morning, after breakfast at…

Between Patty’s Packing and appointments, we worked on a few birding explorations. Patty is off to meet up with her birding buddy Hap, with a brief stop to see sister Sally in Nashville, then up to Murray, KY, for the annual KY Ornithology Meeting, travel to South Carolina to another Birding event, and meet prominent…
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

My favorite beauty We had an abundance of Scissor-Tail Flycatchers in Arkansas. One of my favorite places to see them was at the end of our driveway, on Deep Woods Trail, looking into David Cochran’s garden, and that is where these were taken. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because…