The red wing blackbird is my favorite bird. My Grandmother and I always listened for his first call in the Spring. I look forward to seeing and hearing him in my favorite wetlands. This one must have had a nest nearby as he hid and watched me as I drifted by in my kayak in Stanley Brook.

This friendly sunfish kept hanging around in the shallows where we were swimming and having a picnic at Howe Reservoir so I took his picture with a zoom lens.

Great Blue Heron taking off. It always amazes me how these big, gangly birds get airborne! 

The Monarch butterfly again and two pickerel weeds in bloom along the banks of the Contoocook River.

I was driving around Vermont back roads and saw this typical late season haying operation.

This is Old Orchard Beach and is an early morning picture taken by my sister who picks up the beach at sunrise in the summer. 

All aboard for Springvale!! I saw this is someone's yard in Washington, NH. I think the Springvale run was long over. Wonder where Springvale was and who rode on that bus. 

These purple petunias looked pretty against the lichen covered stone wall of Admiral Peary's summer cottage on Eagle Island Maine, so I took a close up.

I saw this cardinal outside my window on a sleety, icy winter day so I took his picture and and made sure there was plenty of sunflower seeds in the feeder.

Wood Island Light, Saco Bay, Maine near where we stay each summer in Ocean Park, Maine. This18 picture was taken from the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge near Biddeford Pool. There was a murder committed here in the 1800's. The stuff books are written about!

This snapping turtle is bigger than he looks in this picture. I sneaked up and he went on the alert and literally dove into the water. They can move fast when they want to. Snappers cannot retract their head and legs into their shell like other turtles.

This guy came on my back deck and I threw him some nice seeds. Then he looked like he was praying for more and I liked the way the late afternoon sun looked on his back, so I took his picture. Red squirrels normally like the deep forest and don't like to mix with the gray squirrel.

Ranger shack, Eagle Island Maine. One of our favorite boat trips in the summer. I liked all the lobster pots they gathered over the years and displayed. The next year they were all gone and the park ranger told me that they had could not keep them according to Maine law.

Yellow pond lilly in dark water 

Picket fence roses from the front yard of a beautiful house we once owned.

Granddaughter Megan contemplates the Pacific on a misty day. 

We were exploring around Stowe Vermont and came across this backyard patio of a nice inn.

The White River in Vermont on an early morning misty day.

March geese 

Monarch butterfly and goldenrod.