Pixel Eyed

The Millenials, including our grandson, Slade, are born digital.  They instinctively know how to use technology.  Slade, for example, who...

A sparrow performs magic with his tongue. After cracking a seed with his beak he uses his tongue to flit out the shell an preserve the tas...

I told you, stay away from my side of the bird feeder, you thief.  The attacking sparrow, lets the snacker know he is serious by putting h...

I never was much good swinging on those handles.  When I see kids doing this with such deft and ease, I get jealous.   Not jealous enough,...

Who do you suppose would have jumped the farest if the glass had not been there?  I suppose the iguana and our grandchild Sophie, would ha...

This is something new for the Hummingbirds that have been hanging around our backyard.  This guy stands on top of the plastic petals and ...

Sometime back, we were at a concert in the courtyard by the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge, LA.   I don't know if this is a commo...

Looking out from a baptismal font in a church into which we wandered in Washington D.C.  The sun had found a trio of windows it could b...

These two are waiting to go soaring at the Aquarium in Houston.   Big Ferris Wheels always get my stomach quesy. --steve buser ...

Well, snap my finger!   It looked like a chorus line of Alligator mississippiensis.   They sat staring out at the crowds from their ...

When you live in it, swim in it, and eat from it, even a little extra murkiness in the water can't stop you from appreciating its v...

Nightfall out in the backyard.  Calm, quiet, still. As if the night had sucked the sound as well as the sun from the horizon. -steve b...

I go all over the place trying to find these birds, then I walk out my door a few months back to find one is there in the ditch.   This...

Don't get out of your car to get close to wildlife near a road, the park rangers tell you at Yellowstone Park where this was taken....

A little giraffe ballet anyone?   These giraffes were just checking me out -- trying to guess if I was going to feed them or something....

Seeing wildlife is an up close and personal thing at the Global Wildlife Center  near Folsom, LA,  north of New Orleans.  The animals c...

I love these lovely crystalline structures that grow in the pools of geysers at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.   Unless I am mis...

In the cool of the evening and in frigid mountain waters, this gal was slowly making her way back home up in the mountains.  This is o...

A  Sanderling (Calidris alba) skips rapidly across the sandy beach at Perdido Key, Florida, finding a lot of good things to eat on th...

This little chipmunk pounced out of the rocks in front of us on this trip to Colorado.  I don't think it was because he was not afrai...

Mama watches over her young ones (although they are getting pretty big) as the sun rises and the joggers come out. The pond was near ...

The Grand Canyon at sunset is one of the real treats at this national park.  There are good spots and better spots to do this.  We kept...

A Great Egret takes a leap into the air and glides away from his perch.  The picture is from the Oil and Gas Park in Jennings, LA. His c...

My biggest surprise at Global Wildlife Center where we visited this past weekend was the orneriness of the Zebras.  They would push thei...

We had the grandkids and a bunch from Linda's family at the  Global Wildlife Center in Folsom this weekend.  I don't think I h...

A young buck elk in full velvet in Yellowstone National Park stops eating leaves for a second to check me out. I guess he was wondering...

This lone Great Egret (Ardea Albus) was ranging around the pond at the Oil and Gas Park in Jennings today. I managed to get in a spot, j...

Old school buses, put out to pasture, now just lineup behind a fence and watch the I-10 traffic flow by.   Near Winnie, TX (to the east...

This Green Heron at Austin's Arboretum was wary of me, but didn't fly away as long as I kept my distance and didn't make su...

Our son, Charlie, and my wife, Linda, check out the map of Washington D.C. in the portico of the Washington Monument during a recent tr...

I had to shoot between the legs of a railing to catch a shot of this Black-Capped Chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ) eating on some ten...

Will the geyser blow soon?  If you know the ways of this beast, you can probably guess the time it will blow within a couple hours.  A ...

At the top of the photo is the peak of the Grand Teton.  The photo is from our trip to Yellowstone earlier this month.   We were climbi...

How willing would you be to assume that the cloud shape overhead was just an accidental formation as the clouds swirled around? I walke...

While the older people were running the Houston Marathon Sunday, a fewof the kids took to the hill in from of the George R. Brown center...