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I returned here a few days after taking this photo, at about the same time of the day, and the backlight on the smoke bush was again spectacular.
A man was standing where I had been, clutching a large drawing pad and furiously sketching the scene before it shifted. His concentration was such that I felt a little bad even saying hello, and apologizing for walking into the scene briefly to ID the yellow flowers in the foreground. “Oh I can work around you..”
Turns out they’re coreopsis, surrounded by milkweed and white columbine.
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That’s North Cove in the foreground, and the CT River flowing under the Baldwin Bridge and I-95 in the back.
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Last year the marsh behind our neighbor’s house was overflowing with great egrets, most of them juveniles. They stayed for a couple of weeks in early April, probably decimated the fish and and amphibian population in the place, and then were gone.
This year, just a few showed up, and I only photographed a couple of times: this adult, who proved a patient model, and later, a juvenile who would not even stick around for a single shot.
Their majestic beauty and placid manner belie skillful and ruthless abilities as predators; this one caught and swallowed a fish just one minute earlier.
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Four days after anonymously taking (and posting) this photo, I actually met the couple on the Causeway in Old Saybrook, where they were walking and I was photographing. I recognized them immediately as we struck up a conversation, and mentioned taking their picture and subsequently posting it, while possibly (also) taking liberties with the title. Lo and behold, no problem there, as they (Susan and Peter) have been married 48 years, a lifetime of “living, laughing, fighting and loving”, as Susan describes it.
I’m not sure they would have agreed to a portrait out there on the Causeway, but I think it would have been a good one – they are a handsome couple and the late afternoon light was remarkable. Unfortunately I only had a behemoth Sigma 150-600mm rental with me – good for distant birds, not so good for close portraits. And so it goes ..
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The March full moon is commonly referred to as the Worm Moon, for the earthworms who tend to make their way to the surface around this time. And lo and behold, I saw a robin out in our garden today, tugging on something.
Down here near the coast of CT, the robins tend to stay around all winter. I’ve noticed that they save the red holly berries until January, and then a whole flock will clean out the shrubs over a few days time. They won’t touch them earlier in the winter, and the same goes for other red berries in our neighborhood.
It was interesting to be out after dark on the river. Though I was only about a hundred yards away from the nearest homes, I felt a bit uneasy, like I was out in a wilderness far away from civilization. There were coyotes howling some distance away, and the intermittent calls of waterfowl settling in for the night. But mostly it was quiet, and in the end peaceful, with an occasional lap of waves on the shore.
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