Photo-Luminescence

My new Photoblog is up!  Head on over to www.douglasmulford.com to see Photo-Luminescence.  I will be posting one picture a day there so it will be updated much more often :)  I am sure that I will still post here on occasion, but my main focus will be the new blog.

It's Been a While

It has been a while since I last posted so here are some goodies from Costa Rica!    These all came from the Arenal area

Blue-Grey Tanager

Water lily like plants

Purty flower--large!  About 10 inches across!

Pedro, one of the hotel mascot birds :)

A Guest Post

Time for my first guest shot!  I didn't not, of course, take the above picture...our doctor did-Courtney and I are gonna be parents!!!!!!  Our little one will make his or her first appearance around June 14, 2010.  Yea!!! :)

The masks we wear

Hyena mask by Yacouba Bonde at the High museum in Atlanta. Really darned cool!!!




Butterfly mask by the same artist. This is really big ~ 6 feet long. Here is a shot of it being worn:



And a bush cow. Most nifty!!

Spikey!!!

Image of Jeal driving a spike through the head of Sisera-always a popular bible story for youth group!!! Engraving is from 1517 and part of a special exhibit at the Carlos museum on the Emory campus.

Fall is here

Quick shot of a purty tree outside the Avondale Post Office. First post from my iPhone with a pict from my phone-hope it works :)

Better than Galileo

No, not that I am better than Galileo!  But, my camera does have more magnification at 300mm than Galileo did  in 1609-1610 when he first turned his eyes to Jupiter.  And at a complete surprise to me, on a clear fall night in NY I was able to capture this picture of Jupiter with my camera...and yup, those are the Galilean moons surrounding it.  COOL!

A hint of purple

Right near where we were grillin' up dinner on the NY trip were these pretty little flowers.  Those who know me know that I can't resist a flower picture!!!!

So Much Depends...

On the blue wheel barrow...

Another goodie from the NY trip a couple weeks ago.  This picture just says fall and farm to me.  They also had a bathtub as a planter...most creative!

Salad Dressing Anyone?

Another picture form the NY trip.  Poke salad (also known as Pokeweed) has some darned pretty berries in the fall and I always seem to find some to take pictures of now that I live in the south!

Hello, I am Fall and I Am Cool!

OK, so I really should be grading student papers right now, but I think I will avoid it a bit longer by blogging! :)  A couple weeks ago Courtney and I had the chance to head up to near Salt Point, NY to visit with some family (new family for me!) and go to their home winery bottling party!  More on the party is here.  Fall was starting in up north and we got to see some great foliage.  This little guy was just outside one of our friends' house and I fell in love with it.  No idea what type of plant it is but I love the way the leaves changes in stripes!  Most Cool Fall!!

Growing in the Trees

The various plants that hand onto trees in the Jungle are just cool. No soil, and all the water they need form the air. Nifty! And not just small little plants, but, like this one, the tree dwellers can get really darned big!

Don't Blow Your Top

Arenal, Costa Rica. This is the view from our hotel! I guess that many people visit Arenal and never get the chance to see top of the volcano so we were very lucky. We were in Arenal for 4 nights and saw the mountain top every single day. WooHoo! We did not, alas, get a chance to see the actual lava flow, but the continual steam form the eruption was pretty impressive!

First grilled pizza!!!

Here is our first attempt at a grilled pizza with homemade dough. This one is Courtney's cause it is prettier!! Note that this is half way through the cooking.


And here is Courtney's when done. Tasty!!!!

Little Birdie

Whole bevies of quail come to feed at my parents' feeder all year. This guy visited us at Christmas last year.

Dew Drop In

Seen on the ground cover on a walk at the Sea Ranch New Years 2008. I like the way the drop pooled in the center of the star. Most Nifty Nature!

Purty

Sunset. Sea Ranch, CA 12/2008

One Mighty Ant

Throughout Costa Rica we found many a leaf-cutter ant. There fascinating little guys building highways through the undergrowth and carying leaves someitmes great distances back to their nests. As it turn out, the soldier type ants int he colony are very strong. In Arenal we visited a hanging bridges tour and out guide demonstrated the strength of the ants as shown in the picture. If you zoom in you will see that he is holding the ant and that the ant is holding that huge leaf! Wowzers!

Guady Leaf Frog

 

OK, it has officially been WAY too long since I posted here!  It has been a crazy and wonderful summer getting married in May, going on a honeymoon to Costa Rica, teaching summer session 2, and then getting ready for the new school year. Tomorrow is the first day of classes and I think I might actually be ready.  So, here is a picture to start things off again.  Courtney and I had a fantastic time in Costa Rica and I will post several pictures here over the next little while.  Courtney has a great set of blog posts describing the trip if you'd like to check them out here, here, here, here, here, and here.  The first place we visited, Lapa Rios was one of my favorites!  It is a great resort near the Corcovado National Park and there is an incredible amount of wildlife there. One the last night I went on a night hike and say lots of nifty things.  Now, most were spiders and other creepy crawlies, but I did get to see one of these Red-eyed Tree Frog (or Gaudy Leaf Frog) hanging around on a branch.  I was very happy to be able to find one of these in the wild--most cool!  He is a little guy--only a couple inches long but nifty!

Feeling a bit Luna-ey

A couple of weekends ago I joined Courtney and Kate for tour of chicken coops in Oakhurst...yup, you read that correctly :) If you want to see a post on the coops then check out Courtney's post where you will also get to read about my Peep experiments! :) At one of the stops, the one with the baby ducks, there was the incredible Luna moth sitting on one of the coops. I don't remember ever having seen one before and was amazed. he is pretty big--3-4 inches across. and was just sitting there for the many photographers to come by and have a ball taking pictures. A truly beautiful animal!