Pixel Eyed

Butterflies were all over the backyard Monday.  This is the only one that would sit still for a portrait, though.

My iguana friend kept a sharp eye on me, but still let me get more than a dozen pictures of him without flinching.  This was as close as I...

You know that this egret had to feel pretty safe with me shooting pictures of him, if he took the time to scratch.  There was a good bit o...

The Passion Flowers are still hanging around in the backyard, opening by day, closing by night -- floral clock style

This was the committee that flew in to greet us at the Bolivar-Galveston ferry a couple weeks ago. This flock of ferry followers were wa...

In Lacassine, LA, these two were posting watch at the top of the tree as their feathery fellows came circling in.  On the left is a Ibis, ...

On our recent Caribean cruise, this cute fellow was a hitchhiker that joined us just offshore.  I think he disembarked in Jamaica.

A hot air balloon pilot release sa flare of fire into his eagle-shaped hot-air craft at the festival yesterday in Gonzales, LA.   We were ...

I don't know what the one-legged stand is all about. Perhaps this tri-colored heron is just practicing gymnastics with a goal of a run...

Our granddaughter, Sophie, slowly releases her Nanny's hand as she heads off into a world of dreams and fantasy at Chuckie Cheese'...

This prickly little caterpillar can put a whole can of hurt on you with his minute stingers.   I have a close up below.  I learned the ha...

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...