SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO SIT STILL AND WATCH THE WORLD AROUND YOU...EYE CANDY COMMERCIAL

http://www.youtube.com/embed/auSo1MyWf8g?rel=0

TIME FOR SOME INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/nikon-small-world-winners/?pid=5122&viewall=true

THE EXTINCTION PROTOCOLS BLOG - FOR THOSE IN SENSITIVE AREAS

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/author/theextinctionprotocol/

MY LIFE AS A TURKEY - A MOST WONDERFUL STORY FROM PBS/NATURE!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/full-episode/7378/

You see, I really love turkeys. My late friend, Mary, had a white tom turkey who took a shine to me when I took care of her goat herd, milking and feeding them.

When turkeys were being raised across the fence out in Antelope Acres, in Los Angeles County, I'd be feeding my chickens or Samantha and Flopsy, and go "talk" to them.

But wild turkeys - those resplendent bronze beauties are breathtaking in flight, especially when you're surprised by an entire flock flying four inches over the hood of your car. And me, without a camera.

I know how it feels to have a young chick to raise and mother, and teach it what it's real mother would - I did that for my Orville, a very special raven, back in California. From the early spring warmth to a December snowstorm, cold and deep - he left home in that storm and brought the wild flock to eat on the roof over the kitchen. Nine spectacular months of joy and learning and living with a wild raven. Probably the most favorite part of my life. It was tough to leave him (and the family he brought to see me, strung out on the telephone wires - mate and the children).

Last night I was lucky to catch a bit of this from the beginning - I'm going to watch this on the computer tonight. I think you will LOVE it.

GOV. TO MS FLOOD VICTIMS: GOOD LUCK - YOU'RE BASICALLY ON YOUR OWN

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/587473/ms_governor_to_poor_residents_facing_historic_floods%3A_good_luck%2C_you%27re_basically_on_your_own/

Where is FEMA?

Do we really need that agency? Let's defund FEMA today. They were shamefully inept during Katrina, too.

WILDLIFE LOVERS - LIVE AND LEARN - A HIPPO SPA?

LIVING ON A DYING DELTA - DAHR JARMAIL

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/living-on-a-dying-delta

Wildlife photographer Moose Peterson has a great blog -

http://moosepeterson.com/blog/

with great links to other wildlife photographers.

Check it out - it's easy to subscribe.

Last night on the creek, the light was beautiful, and then the frogs began tuning up...

The light was so beautiful last night so I stayed to watch the sun go down. I was on the dock across the street when the nightly frog chorus tune up began. One will start to sing, the millions of others join in, but only for a few minutes. Then they stop abruptly and start the songs when it gets dark. I think it has something to do with the angle of the sun. I think I got it all on this video.

Don't forget to check the older posts -

There's some really useful information on photography, writing (a whole section on writing links), slideshows, politics, animals and nature. I'm going to have to find a way to resurrect old posts so you can get a chance to see them, rather than going back and finding them.

For you writers, here's a good link.

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Editing some photos tonight.

Let's play a game.

It's called "Go Find the Heron".

No prizes, just a surprise.

I could write a volume on camouflage as used in nature. This is why.

Covers for Amazon Shorts

As promised - they're here, and I couldn't be more pleased. So now instead of the sad little avatar that meant "no cover", Amazon Shorts has chosen to put my image of one of Big Bend Wildlife Sanctuary's unreleasable Red-tail Hawks (she's an educational ambassador now), on "Paradise" and a snapshot, taken by my mother of Dad and Uncle John, holding "The Last Striper".

Clicking the link will bring you to my page. Soon "The Bale Hunter", "The Otter" and "The Strange Journey of Vernal Page" will be uploaded. I have just submitted a children's story, "Grandma's Pearly Egg", written in serial to my grandchildren. We'll see if Amazon Shorts likes it.

I have a whole collection of thoughts, essays, observations about "Life on Sleepy Creek", that is more of a journal than anything. But that's how "Waltz on the Wild Side - An Animal Lover's Journal" came to be. I think I may serialize those for this feature of Amazon.

If you should download any of my Shorts, please leave a review, and I hope you find my writing worthwhile.

Amazon Shorts, I'm pleased to say...

has two of my stories up. "Paradise" and "The Last Striper".

Amazon Shorts are 49 cent downloads arrive in PDF format or in plain text in your email.

Both haven't received their covers yet, since I requested a friend's Red-tail Hawk images to be used for "Paradise", and an old snapshot of my father, the striped bass and Uncle John to be used for "The Last Striper".

If you download them and are pleased, I would appreciate a short review (or a long one). There are three more in process and many more to come from me.

On February 7, another Short was published. This one is pure Southern fiction (from a Yankee?). I had my friend's large, wild family to draw from in "The Strange Adventure of Vernal Page". About an old Florida Cracker and his neighbors. It's a fun read, and I enjoyed
thinking of Jean and her brothers and sisters, her little bitty Blackfoot grandmother, who whipped them with switches from a nearby tree if they got out of hand. Jean's a wonderful storyteller, and when she gets started, you can't stop laughing. By the way, she was a Page.
And I would expect Vernie Page to be as resourceful as her family.