Dave Watkins

We don’t have those around here. It’s beautiful. Was the ground, or rock, it’s on wet? I ask because to ingest minerals butterflies “puddle.” They land on wet ground, animal carcasses and animal and bird poop to get nutrients nectar doesn’t provide.

I’ve learned a number of strange facts about butterflies this year after putting in the butterfly…[Read more]

Thanks Diane. Shot at 1/2000 to stop the motion. Went back and tried to get one showing just a bit of motion using 1/1600 and 1/1250 but didn’t even get one keeper. It’s supposed to be rainy for the next four days so any new butterfly pics are on hold.

And one more. Christmas time at Willow Springs Farm. 🙂

On top of the hill on a frosty morning.

My herd at home.

One of my does at work. People would hire us to reduce invasive plants on their property like this Himalayan blackberry.

Carol and my mom working in one of the gardens.

Couldn’t find any pics of her wreaths. She made two kinds of dried wreaths. Dried flower and dried herb. Flower wreaths had straw flowers, statice, dried roses, pearly everlastings and small pink flowers that dried well that we would find on the side of the road. We never found out what they were. Also some type of herb to add some green.

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Love it!

Wow! What a beautifully colored butterfly. Nice shot Rob.

I like the light/dark contrast of the wings, beautiful background.

In flight.

Hi Robert. I would if I got over to the coast more often. And I only have 3 or 4 shots in the archive. So as it is I’ll think about it but would definitely participate if someone else started one.

Thanks John. I’ve lived in Oregon for twenty five years and this was my first trip to the southern coast area. Now it could be my new favorite Oregon location.

Thanks Tom. I’m sure you’d enjoy it. This was my first trip to the southern coast. It’s a five hour drive to get there but well worth it.

Thanks Bruce. There were soon to be more tracks. Two groups of people, one on my left and one on my right, were behind me heading that direction. I took four shots with slightly different compositions. I liked this one best.

Thanks Dahlia. I had brought my tripod and a 6 stop ND filter and never found the time to use them. Next time for sure.

Thanks Robert. Will definitely be making plans for a return trip for a longer stay because of the ocean and redwoods. The size of some of those trees are amazing.

What a nice surprise. 🙂 This is exactly why my wife will not pick up tarps or boards and such. Deathly afraid a snake will be laying in wait.  🙂

A beautiful image of an appropriately named location.