Beyond The Pale

• Murky Waters 2 months ago When I go out to take photos, I sometimes have a plan and sometimes I don't, but if I do, I know that it’s also good to be flexible. Maybe the weather’s not right, maybe those glorious fields of rapeseed flowers have been harvested, or maybe the birds didn’t show up. But none of those...
• Wetlands 4. Franklin the Flamingo 1 month ago Once upon a time there was a pond just a stone’s throw from the Mediterranean. Lots of birds came to sit and stand and eat in this pond. Some were permanent residents, while others had tourist visas for passing through on their way north and south. Mallards, coots, stilts, storks, grey herons,...
• Wetlands 3. Birds 2 months ago After reading my last post with photos of those beautiful horses, a friend asked me if they were wild and what happens to them when their surroundings dry up. Well heck. I hadn’t done my homework.The horses in the park are Camargue horses. That is a breed of French horses from the Camargue...
• Wetlands 2. Animals 2 months ago I remember when I went to Toulouse last September and took off my facemask in the park and could get a real breath of fresh air – outdoor air on a rainy day that smelled of trees and rain and things green. A small thing like that but ten months later I still remember. At the time we had...
• Wetlands 1. Landscape 2 months ago El Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l”Empordà is a 4,722-hectare natural park and wildlife preserve on the Mediterranean and about a twenty-minute drive from Figueres. The park is many things to many people. Some go there to walk for an hour or two on some of the trails, all of which are level,...

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