It's the Friday blog

The last few days have been a complete wash for snowy egrets at Washington Oaks, so instead I've been shooting flowers, all you have to do is walk 50 yards from the river (matanzas) to the gardens. I know less about flowers than I do birds, so everything is described by color and other elements inside the image.Of course if i know the name of the thing I use it but today i was processing a flower image, the file name is "orngflwrprplbg" in my shorthand that's orange flower with a purple background. I tried to familiarize myself with flowers years ago while i was living in Texas. Lady bird Johnson was the spearhead for this thing where all the medians and fields alongside the roads in Tx  were planted with wildflowers and it became a tourist event to go see them, much like us folks that live in mostly pine go up north to see leaves. This is especially true in the hill country down around Austin. This area is already an amazing place, so add this major color flush and it's really something. Most of the time that i tried to shoot Tx wildflowers I was standing in a ditch, another one of those location things.I don't have anything left that survives from back then except for a wildflowers of  Tx guide book. Oh yeah , back to Washington oaks, they have all these different types of flowers some are labeled, some aren't, but they are all just popping with color, put some good light in the mix and boom! u have some amazing flower images. Here are two.

At vail point park the great blue herons are loud and proud. They are in the nesting trees and it's mating season so lots of flaring wings and loud noises it's the equivalent of the male going up to the female and saying  "you must be a parking ticket you got fine written all over you"  lol, I heard that on a commercial a while back. Anyway i have a few of those, one looks like a real fight the other is the whole courtship thing. The blue heron nesting tree is next to the tree with the eagles nest, in the background is an adolescent eagle.Another thing going on in vp park is an owls nest. I finally saw the owl, but  this weird fog bank rolled in and zapped my light, so now that area is part of the morning patrol .I noticed a bunch of cardinals running around (ok, flying). They are really quick! I'm usually out in the morning I think these little birds drink more coffee than I do, but i managed to get a couple.

 so thats it for the friday post.
Thanks for reading! Lets go shoot!