Bright-Eyed In Dixie ...

“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

                           ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                                 ~ 1858-1919

                 ~ Naturalist & Conservationist

  ~ 26^th President of the United States of America

                                  ~1901-1909

A double-crested cormorant keeps an eye on the lagoon amid the autumn leaves on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

A Little Night Music ...

“Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair ... ?”

         ~ “Send In The Clowns”

    ~ written by Stephen Sondheim for
   the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music”

A beautiful mute swan glances at a white feather floating by in the pond on a winter’s evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.

Looming At The Lowcountry Lagoon ...

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

                   ~ Aesop

                       ~ born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.

A Juvenile Little Blue Heron looms over the lagoon as sunset approaches on a late October evening in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.