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Crawfish chimneys

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At this time of the year, farm fields and roadside ditches across West Tennessee are dotted with small mud chimneys which are laboriously created by crayfish.

As they burrow out their tunnels, they dig up mud, make it into balls, take the balls to the surface and set them in place — layer by layer.  It is interesting to observe the different architectural structures they create.

“Create your own visual style … let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”  ~Orson Welles

Big old bullfrog

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... When the marshy meadows glimmer
With a misty, purple shimmer,
And the twilight flush is changing into shade;
When the firefly lamps are burning
And the dusk to dark is turning,--
Then the bullfrogs chant their evening serenade ...
~Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Curiosity

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Recently I spotted this handsome little Lark Sparrow curiously peeking down at me from high atop a tree.  My camera and I were peeking back at him.

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”  ~Lovelle Drachman

Among the blackberry blossoms

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“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.”  ~Will Rogers

Golden sunset

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“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”  ~C. S. Lewis

Storm off to the north

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“I love the smell of rain and growing things.”  ~Serina Hernandez

Thoughts on vultures

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Vultures are fascinating birds. On the ground, their wrinkled, featherless heads, grayish white legs and large, flat feet give them quite an awkward and uncomely appearance.

But in the air, they are absolutely stunning birds as they circle majestically over the farm fields, riding the thermals and looking for food. They soar and glide with elegance and style.  It’s hard to reconcile the fact that such an inelegant looking bird on the ground could look so graceful in the air.

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”  ~Francis Bacon