Saturday Sunrise

After thoroughly enjoying a migraine and staying in bed most of the day yesterday, I woke up wide awake at 5am this morning. So I decided to get out and take some photographs.

Taken from Rocky Pointe before dawn. I took about 25 shots just like this, all full of color just dripping out of the sky.
I saw so many things looking at this tree. An alligator's mouth, maybe a sideways capital A, and many more images came to mind.
Taken from the public boat ramp near Concorde.
Little Orphan Annie was right....the sun DID come out tomorrow.
While the sun rose on one side, this was the view behind me, a full moon still hung with care in the sky.
It's been a great day so far and it's only 8am.

Peek-a-boo

I believe this little fella is some sort of an Anole (lizard). He was following another one up on the deck at the pool but froze when he found my lens peering at him.

Late Afternoon eukenaisa...echonesia...screw it, late afternoon flower.

Red-Tailed Hawk

Early this year, a breeding pair of red-tailed hawks set up house in a tree at the horse farm next door. Since then, they have taunted me. At first I thought it was just coincidence. If I didn't have my camera nearby, they'd fly just yards overhead and stay around. If I got my camera, they'd either fly hundreds of feet high or disappear behind the tree line.

I've enjoyed watching their aerial battles with the neighborhood crows and mocking birds but could never get a clean shot at them. But today, I was lucky enough to have their offspring learning to fly in our neighbor's yard.

"Great....I made it down from the tree. Now what?"
"Hey, this reminds me of the next....maybe I should just hang out here?""Well, these things got me down here, maybe they can get me back up.""Kewl! Look ma, I'm on top of the world! Well, on top of the house, at least!"
Once he figured that part out, he flew (well, sort of) back into the trees heading to the horse farm. I guess the two mocking birds that were dive bombing him didn't making him feel too comfortable here.