Pixel Eyed

The ferry boat ride to Dolphin Island in Alabama is a great time for bird watching, waves, and scenery.  A slow down from your busy life.

 

The happy alligator from the Cattail Marsh Scenic Wetlands & Boardwalk in Beaumont Texas.

The sun didn't quite go down as I was shooting this, but it's brightness emphaises all the little speckles sprinkled around the sky...

These were the angry clouds that moved slowly through early this week.  Habringer of turbulent summer weather to come?

The sunflowers in the backyard are really putting on a show this week.

I was watching the sky today as we moved around the city on chores.  This shot was while I was at Kinsel Ford dropping off a vehicle whic...

Okay, you're a Great Blue Heron and you have caught a big catfish for your meal.  How do you eat it?  Well, you play with it and po...

This alligator at the Cattail marsh seemed to be enjoying a nap back a good ways from the viewing boardwalk.  He was up on the land to ge...

This was a recent sunset from near the Indiana-Michigan border. The cool night seemed to make the colors crisper.

My brick-scaling, gravity-defying, photo-posing lizards are very active this summer, in case you wanted to know. They want you to know.

This is how things looked driving into the Houston, TX, sunset on the I-10 a few weeks back. Beautiful colors, but blinding views to hav...

This Alaskan flower shot, from our Alaskan cruise, seems like needles of light.

A scene from our Alaskan cruise.  Linda gazes into the sunset.

This was a kids playground at a hospital we were at in Dallas last week where our 8th grandchild was born. You get a better sense of t...

This was the scene of our daughters ranch in Indiana earlier this week.  The snow eventually accumulated to 9+ inches.  I love the hush th...

Having fun with a game of chase under the huge trees in Seattle's Discovery Park which overlooks the Puget Sound.  We could have spen...

what else do you do when you have a long layover?

This is the scene at the Baton Rouge airport as we waited for our flight home.

It's not just bees busy with nectar searches.

Foraging for nectar.

This agitated Red-Winged Blackbird was doing everything he could to catch my attention and draw it away from his nest in Mishawaka's (I...

Despite the fact that this Great Blue Heron seems to favor this Mishawaka, IN, park as a favorite fishing hole, he didn't seem to be ha...

Seattle, nuff said.

It was an extra busy day on the Chicago River Saturday when we were passing through to catch a flight back to Texas.  We were sitting ...

This was the weather system that blew past our neighborhood last night. Ominous as it might look, it was all bluster and no rain.  The air...

This blue heron was standing watch below the Mishawaka Dam at Central Park in South Bend, Indiana where we were visiting my daughter's...

So this butterfly and I were having this photo shoot up in Seattle along the side walk.  I guess she just got tired of waiting for me to s...

This is a shot of my grand-daughter Sophie playing baseball a couple years ago. Notice how many players are coming in to make the play.  (...

We were in Seattle recently and this butterfly was wandering through the flowers next to the sidewalk as I walked along. I let the others ...

How about a high five? You always see egrets standing on their legs and rarely see them using them for anything else.  In this case, t...

I took this shot several years ago when we were up near Seattle.  I didn't  take this guy long to get a bite at this waterfall fishi...

Some flowers seem to hide their pollen and nectar displays down deep in a petal tunnel.  Not this one. It's open for business - cle...

A view of bridges over the Ohio River in Louisville Kentucky in the dawn light. We were there a few years ago for a Iron Man competition o...

This is a somewhat close-up view of a glacier as it meets the water from our recent Alaskan trip.  The big blue columns of ice form a wall...

 This lake we saw on Alaska journey last year takes your breath away. The blues assault your eyes with their brilliance.

This is Mount Rainier, near Seattle, taken from a plane.

This spider, hanging in my back yard, was munching down on his lunch, when I came upon him.  He had a couple future meals  hanging elsewhe...

The mountains slide past our cruise ship as w3 sail the passages near Skagway, Alaska, on our recent vacation,  My wife, Linda, is holdi...

"Okay kids, you had your dinner and your play time,  now it is time to clean up."  A mother duck, sheppards  her ducklings, teac...

This shot is from our recent Alaskan cruise on the Norwegian Jewel. We took a whale watching tour out of Juneau, and saw quite a few whale...

This was the view from the Norwegian Jewel as Seattle slid away from us and we set sail for an Alaskan Cruise.

After an hour of watching this Alaskan  eagle from afar, as we were walking back to the bus, he zoomed to a tree by the road which we were...

Found in the wreckage in Oklahoma this past summer.

Eastern Bluebirds aren't a common site, chez moi, so I was glad to see this visitor.