September 23

Sometimes I feel the need to explain what I do but today I realized that I needn’t bother. I walk. I look. I take pictures. It gives me enormous pleasure and peace to do these things. I share them because it may give some one else the same experience.

Flame in the grass. Actually it’s just a random sumac leaf caught in the marsh grass but it looks like a gasp feels.

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There is still plenty of life in Belle Isle. There are even still some dragonflies. The bugs are busy before the first freeze arrives. So the bumblebees are frantically busy before they must return to their burrows. The birds were not plentiful today (except for a biggish cloud of starlings) but low tide and noon are the usual culprits for the low turnout. This Yellowlegs was calmly feeding in a small puddle out by the Overlook.

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The plant life still hosts a variety of critters like this orange and black dude.

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The best sight of the day was this milkweed pod exuberantly bursting with seeds. The bundle of fluff was a sensuous delight to my fingertips.

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The equinox has passed but the year is far from over.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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