Recently, when I got up to feed my cats breakfast (they can be relentless in their pursuit of their meals), I happened to look out my kitchen window and saw an interesting group of clouds. As usual, my camera wasn’t far away and I decided to take a picture.
I find cloud formations fascinating. Everything from the small puffs that look like misshapen animals or objects, to the massive dark walls that carry storms. Nature is awesome.
Until next time…
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~A.M.
For the past few weekends, I’ve been doing what I call “Weekend Technology Hiatuses”. More accurately though, they’re internet hiatuses. I log off on Thursday evening or Friday afternoon and don’t log back on until Monday.
These hiatuses (this is going on a month now) have been pretty beneficial. One, they’ve helped me decompress and distance myself from my overuse of the internet. Two, I’ve made major progress with my novel (I’m all done the final round of editing!). And three, I’ve spent more time doing other things I love such as hiking, photography, and making jewelry.
This past weekend I went hiking (shocking, I know!), and I’m glad I did because I saw some wildlife I’ve never seen in the flesh with my own eyes before. Gather round for the tale, kids!
I went to my trusted hiking standby (as I’m once again out of new places to discover…for now), Quoddy Head State Park. While hiking there, I stopped at my usual spot for lunch at Green Point. Those of you that follow my blog religiously, all two of you, will remember me mentioning this park and this spot many times.
Anyway, after I finished photographing all the epic rock stacks that were there (and there were a lot this time), I settled in and had my lunch. When I was packing up to head back to the trails, I noticed something moving in the water. Instinctively, I went for my camera. When I lifted my camera, the thing I saw was gone. I was disappointed, thinking it was a seal that dove under (and those bad boys can swim for quite a while without resurfacing), but just as I was about to forget it and head out, I saw it break the surface again not far from where it had gone under. At first, I didn’t know what I was looking at until I took the picture and reviewed it on the spot. There was a fin. So it wasn’t a seal.
It was a dolphin. A freaking dolphin! But even better than that, it wasn’t just one. There were at least five, maybe six!
Now, my shots didn’t come out as good as I hoped where the dolphins were out past the range of my camera’s zoom (not to mention I was shaking where I was excited to finally see these awesome creatures first hand instead of in books, movies, or television). But, I managed to get a shot of one of them surfacing!
My day was made in that moment! Big time! How could it not have been!!
Oh, and the rest of the hike was nice too (plus, I ended my day with a little blueberry picking). [-_^]
Until next time…
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~A.M.
Tomorrow will mark the anniversary of the day one of my cats was born. He’ll be 16 years old. 16! And he’s still the biggest freaking baby. [^_^]
So, happy birthday to my boy, Sylvester! And, by proxy, happy birthday to my eldest, Tigger, who’s now 17!
Happy 16th birthday, Sylvester!
Happy 17th birthday, Tigger!
Like Bob Barker always said (and because it‘s a good idea), Help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. d_[^_^]
Until next time….
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~A.M.
This past weekend, there was finally some decent weather. No rain and not too humid. So, I decided to get out and try to locate another new trail I read about.
I found the road but unfortunately couldn’t access the trail itself because the access road was so overgrown with brush and downed trees.
Fail.
So, as a backup, I decided to head over to the Hamilton Cove Preserve to check out the Benny’s Mountain trail I hadn’t hiked the last time I was there.
Fail number two as that trail was also overgrown so much it was completely impassable.
On to my second backup and trusted standby of Quoddy Head State Park. There I managed to salvage the day with a decent hike (hiking is always decent there) and some pictures of several interesting rock stacks out at Green Point.
Now, is it just me, or does this kind of look like the face of a Transformer? [o_O]
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Hell, try as many times as you need to!
Until next time….
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~A.M.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been on any adventures recently even though I have a list of trails I’ve yet to hike. The weather here hasn’t been all that agreeable lately. It’s either pouring rain or so unbearably hot that hiking is the last thing I want to do.
But, I won’t leave folks hanging this week, so here’s a picture I took last month of a butterfly that I helped out of the road. I think a bird might have tried to eat it. One of its wings was injured. But, I got it out of the road and into the safety of some bushes.
Until next time…
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~A.M.
Audrey May Photography 