Archive for May, 2008

Fish Boil!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

We spent Memorial Day weekend (plus a few days) in Door County, WI. One traditional meal there is a fish boil, where fish are boiled in water with nothing more than salt. This is typically done outdoors over an open fire. When the oils cook out of the fish and form a [...]

Female Dove?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

The dove in the previous picture was hanging around with this dove. Note the coloration is slightly different–the top of the head isn’t as blue and the tail is slightly different. So I suspect this is the previous dove’s mate. Since this one is slightly less colorful, I’m guessing this is the [...]

Dove

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

More from the “backyard photography” series…Here’s a dove of some sort that came to eat the scraps the other messy birds (and squirrels) left from our bird feeder. He came with, I think, his mate, as her coloring was slightly different (her head wasn’t bluish). This was the best picture I got of [...]

Neighborhood Denizen

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Small Succulent

Monday, May 12th, 2008

This is one of my mother’s house plants. She loves cacti and other succulents. I was having fun with the 100mm macro lens. This plant is quite tiny. Taken July of 2007.

Seasoning

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

90/366 green beans

Lake

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

73/366 melting