Y is for Yellow

Who would ever think there were so many very bright yellow things in nature!!

Here are a few.

Probably the favorite of everyone--sunflower
Lotus blossom--this picture has won prizes in two contests and was published in the Jan/Feb 2008 South Carolina Wildlife Magazine

Prothonotary warbler announcing his territory at Beidler Forest

The center of a day lily

A sulphur butterfly on lantana

Seaweed on a North Topsail Island, NC, beach
The guts of a daisy

Yellow-throated warbler

Bumble bee on a ditch daisy

A yellow day lily

Two giraffes in a brilliant sunset in Botswana

Three ditch daisies

A pair of American goldfinches on a niger feeder

Bignonia blossom

Golden orb weaver

Only one more letter to go in the alphabet. I bet you can guess what the theme will be!

Please send any questions or comments to:

bwkrucke@gmail.com

Thanks.

X is for eXotic

These eXotic animals aren't really all that unusual, they are just not ones we see every day. The photos were all taken in Botswana on our 11th trip to southern Africa in 2006. You can see lots more by taking virtual safaris with my journals which can be found on my website: http://www.toogoodoostudios.com

Lilac-breasted roller

Maribou storks

Jackass penguin (in South Afica)

African elephant baby and very protective mother

Lioness (this photo won a prize)
African fish eagle--the only true relative of our bald eagle.

Southern giraffe

Yellow-billed stork.

Spotten hyena
Palms in the sunset

Chacma baboon taking the air

Chacma baboon acting as a sentinal

Angry bull elephant mock charging

Vervet monkey baby

Woodland kingfisher Only two more letters to go and I can go back to a normal blog and reopen comments.

For now, please email any comments or questions to:

bwkrucke@gmail.com

Thanks.

Q is for Quality and as it turns out Quantity too!

I got a good suggestion from Birdgirl to use Quality for my alphabet Q. So I chose some of my favorite recent photographs. Then I remembered all my African photographs that were my favorites too. So here are way too many from Africa followed by some from here and there too. They will all have to be clicked larger to see probably.

What do you see here?

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Local swamp

Reflections in the Canadian Rockies

Casting for shrimp


Lake Moraine in the Canadian Rockies


Lantana blossom forming

Prize winning louts photo printed in SC Wildlife Magazine

Prothonotary warbler photo used on SC Audubon website

As I look at these I think of many more that I like too. So many photos, so little time! Email me if you want to know about any of these.

bwkrucke@gmail.com

thanks