by Gary Gardiner | May 23, 2013
Pepper Number ??? is My Final Photo
Not sure how this pepper sat undiscovered in a corner of the hutch just long enough to begin to wrinkle but not long enough to rot.
Fortunately, for me, it decayed just enough to make it an interesting subject for My Final Photo. Its wrinkled and dimpled skin made for a great surface to explore light, shadow, and shape.
Wonder if Weston, upon discovering this pepper, would have used an iPhone like I did? Weston with modern technology? I wonder?
by Gary Gardiner | May 23, 2013
Pepper Number ??? is My Final Photo
Not sure how this pepper sat undiscovered in a corner of the hutch just long enough to begin to wrinkle but not long enough to rot.
Fortunately, for me, it decayed just enough to make it an interesting subject for My Final Photo. Its wrinkled and dimpled skin made for a great surface to explore light, shadow, and shape.
Wonder if Weston, upon discovering this pepper, would have used an iPhone like I did? Weston with modern technology? I wonder?
by Gary Gardiner | May 22, 2013
Turkey vulture devouring a squirrel is My Final Photo for May 22, 2013
Choosing today’s My Final Photo was quite easy. It had to be the turkey vulture in my back yard.
We’re not sure where the dead squirrel came from. There was no mourning for it. Neither would there have been mourning if the vulture’s meal had been one of the too many rabbits that plague the garden.
Still, there he stood in the corner of our small plot of land making a meal of a dead squirrel.
We’ve had hawks in the back yard before looking for the same prey only as living meals. For the vulture to find this single squirrel is interesting.
Vultures use their ability to smell decaying flesh, not their eyesight which is good but not as fine as the hawk’s. Even more interesting is that the vulture searches only for freshly dead animals, not the ones you and I can smell as they begin to decay. Vultures like their meat fresh, not rotten, just like us.
by Gary Gardiner | May 22, 2013
Turkey vulture devouring a squirrel is My Final Photo for May 22, 2013
Choosing today’s My Final Photo was quite easy. It had to be the turkey vulture in my back yard.
We’re not sure where the dead squirrel came from. There was no mourning for it. Neither would there have been mourning if the vulture’s meal had been one of the too many rabbits that plague the garden.
Still, there he stood in the corner of our small plot of land making a meal of a dead squirrel.
We’ve had hawks in the back yard before looking for the same prey only as living meals. For the vulture to find this single squirrel is interesting.
Vultures use their ability to smell decaying flesh, not their eyesight which is good but not as fine as the hawk’s. Even more interesting is that the vulture searches only for freshly dead animals, not the ones you and I can smell as they begin to decay. Vultures like their meat fresh, not rotten, just like us.
by Gary Gardiner | May 22, 2013
Turkey vulture devouring a squirrel is My Final Photo for May 22, 2013
Choosing today’s My Final Photo was quite easy. It had to be the turkey vulture in my back yard.
We’re not sure where the dead squirrel came from. There was no mourning for it. Neither would there have been mourning if the vulture’s meal had been one of the too many rabbits that plague the garden.
Still, there he stood in the corner of our small plot of land making a meal of a dead squirrel.
We’ve had hawks in the back yard before looking for the same prey only as living meals. For the vulture to find this single squirrel is interesting.
Vultures use their ability to smell decaying flesh, not their eyesight which is good but not as fine as the hawk’s. Even more interesting is that the vulture searches only for freshly dead animals, not the ones you and I can smell as they begin to decay. Vultures like their meat fresh, not rotten, just like us.
