Showing posts with label Coventry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coventry. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Catgirl Stars As Brachiosaurus!

In May, the Kindergarten and first grades presented Dinomotion! for their spring production at school. Nate and Amy, John and I went to see it. I had my new long lens, which was a huge benefit to getting these shots. Catgirl is in Kindergarten and was at times nervous, shy, tired and happy. When Catgirl saw me and John, she waved to us and we saw her relax a bit. She had her first solo part as the Brachiosaurus and her father had helped her learn her part perfectly. She was a beautiful star that night! You have to forgive me posting so many photographs of her . . . she is just so cute that I couldn’t select just a couple shots.

After the show, Amy & Nate treated us all to ice cream sundaes (except John, who doesn’t particularly care for it) at Tim & Doug’s in Newport. We walked on the boardwalk at Memphremagog, where Ironman told us to watch out for whales and dolphins.

Tim & Doug's Ice Cream Stand is the best place for ice cream!

Lake Memphremagog
Bear Mountain (Vermont) on the left.
Owl's Head (Quebec) on the right.
John and I stopped for sunset photos in Coventry
on the way home from this great evening.

diigo it

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

American Kestrel

American+Kestrel (Falco Sparverius)

I have spotted American Kestrels in three locations (at home, Westmore Mountain and the Coventry Marshes) but they have been difficult for me to capture on camera. They perch on phone wires. If a car drives by at normal speed they remain on the wire. But as soon as you slow or stop to observe them, they fly off. Even though these shots are poor, I am proud that we managed to capture this kestrel.

American+Kestrel (Falco Sparverius)

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Birding In Coventry Marsh

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

unknown juvenile duck

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Beautiful Flowers


I can't find these beautiful blooms in my Vermont wildflower book. They are on a bushy shrub-like plant. Hopefully somebody will help me identify it. Click on the window. The large versions of the photos are even more beautiful.

Despite learning a bit about histograms and using more of the features on my camera, I am finding it very difficult to photograph white and yellow flowers unless it is a very cloudy day.

These photos were taken Thursday evening about 6 PM on the River Road in the Coventry Marshes.

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Two More Wildflowers

Horned Bladderwort
Yellow Flag

Ragged Robin

River Road, Coventry Marshes

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Unknown Wildflowers

UPDATE: My thanks to Patti for identifying this as lily of the valley: "probably naturalized and not wild." This will explain why my two books of wildflowers had no photos of this plant. I suspected they were lily of the valley but if they were not in my books, I figured they weren't what I thought.



Taken in Coventry, Vermont
NEK Audobon Birdathon
Flower is unknown.

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