Monday in Nature Nov. 21, 2016

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<p>Salutations,<br>

This week those of us here in the U. S. celebrate Thanksgiving. It's always good to stop and take stock of the things for which we are thankful, no matter where we live or if we have a holiday set aside for such things. We have beautiful places to take our gear and photograph the wonders around with our own unique vision. Find 20 deer and 20 photographers and you'll get hundreds of different images. Are there ever enough? Can any of us take enough images of the things we love in nature? No, probably not. It's something to be thankful for.</p>

<p>Here's wishing all of you, everywhere, the spirit of a day of thanks for the goodness in our lives. Thanks for coming to join in the good times here each week. Thanks for sharing what you know, what you see, your amazing photography, and a bit of who you are.</p>

<p>Happy Thanksgiving.</p><div></div>

<p>Fall to Winter!</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Snow Geese</strong> at Hagerman Wildlife Refuge.</p><div></div>

<p>Autumn birch in front of a waterfall</p><div></div>

<p>Winter is upon us now and seems to be settling in to stay.<br /> I still have plenty of fungi photos from this autumn to work on, during those cold dark months ahead.<br /> Here are a group of Galerina marginata from a few weeks back.<br /> The small round balls are Lycogala epidendrum Wolf's Milk slime mold.</p><div></div>

<p>Gordon,<br>

I'm glad that you had plenty of fungi, and I always enjoy your images. The woodlands around here were very dry and we were reduced to old dried up bracket fungi. I'll hope for better, and who knows, maybe we'll have warm temps ahead and I'll find fresh fungi in January.</p>

<p>In an Autumn with low color, this! </p><div></div>

<p>This new comer was a standout this past weekend among its relatives that are basically leafless at this point</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Thanksgiving, <strong>Laura</strong>!<br>

<strong>Gordon</strong>, another lovely mushroom shot.<br>

My photo was taken at a local aquarium.</p>

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<p>A duck on an Autumn pond.</p><div></div>

<p>More ducks in an Autumn pond. There's just a little bit of Autumn color left here in Connecticut and the colors look better when reflected. Taken in early morning light.</p>

 

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<center>Canon 7D II + 70-200mm f/4 lens</center>

<p>I'm fortunate to visit Argentina on a regular basis. The diversity of plants and animals new to me is all the greater here, and thus the "never enough time" factor all the more pronounced!</p>

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<p>Visiting in Georgia for a while, and traveling very light, my only camera is a ten year old Canon pocket camera, but I was walking along the Augusta canal when this fellow decided to cross. I think it's a plain old black snake, though only about three and a half feet long and rather thin compared to his prodigious Vermont cousins.</p><div></div>

<p>Sunrise at Bosque Del Apache.</p><div></div>

<p>The desert heat was oppressive but it was occasionally necessary to leave the comfort of the air conditioned van to stretch and allow my dog, Elwood, to spread his joy. </p>

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<p>Turkey vulture in flight</p><div></div>

<p><strong>From a visit to Staten Island Rd last week</strong></p><div></div>

<p>Laura, I guess <em>I am</em> a tick city....:>)</p><div></div>

<p>Clouded "super moon" colors Lake Orange orange. EOS 5D4 + 70-200mm f/4L IS at 160mm; 1/6s f/8 ISO 400.</p><div></div>

<p>Leszek,<br>

Teheheheh.......;-))</p>

<p><img src="/photo/18306800" alt="" />LaPrairie Quebec - no leaves (Nov 2016) - late afternoon.</p><div></div>

<p>Some vertical driftwood at Presque Isle State Park - I'm not sure how much of the sand at this particular beach is man-laid and how much is natural - nonetheless, I'm kind of fascinated to know just how much tree is buried under there.</p><div></div>

<p>The powerful Cape Buffalo is one of the "Big Fives" in African Safaris. The other four are the elephant, lion, leopard, and rhino</p><div></div>

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