EvieArtsJournal: May 2010

Greetings from the Neuse River

Life here along the banks of the Neuse River, overlooking close to four miles of water, is a sharp contrast to living in a city. Most months, it is idyllic; then, there are the months that remind you that Mother Nature is definitely in charge.

This neighborhood of houses face the Neuse River and backs up to several acres of farmland -- most years, soybean --- then thick tracts of pine forests to the main road.

I love to watch the sea gulls, sometimes the pelicans, and cormorants or egrets and the occasional eagle or osprey. The cute visitors are "chickens" that my neighbor called me about photographing who were grazing in her yard. Even at 100 feet away, they were skittish and flew to the further neighbor's yard but just enough for me to photograph them for identification. These "chickens" turned out to be cattle egrets. The flock numbered about thirty -- by the river bank...not sure why they picked her yard.

I suppose you could say this blog is an occasional picture-book of life in Pamlico County or whatever comes to mind at the time.

Monday, May 31, 2010

My first set of bluebirds in the year had 5 eggs in the hatch box. They fledge safely. And immediately, a new couple wanted to move in. A couple weeks ago, when I checked there was only one egg. I believe the baby arrived yesterday as activity in and out the box ramped up yesterday. Here is Papa Blue.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

A Couple Enjoying the Beach

I photographed this about a year ago. It won First Place in the New Bern Coastal Photo group show (Enhanced Category). It is Memorial Day weekend and the weather is hot and sunny and this is what I'd rather be doing instead of staying at home working and cleaning house.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Indian Pow Pow

Over the weekend, while most folks went to the Air Show, we went to what what called the Algonquin Pow Wow. It was a small crowd but we enjoyed the costumes and short dances.
One of the headdresses is captured here.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Kinu visits Lucy at Topsail Beach

Lucy (foreground) is Fania's dog. My dog, Kinu is in the background. They are relaxing on the deck after playing on the beach and in the surf. They both have some Lab in them so they love the water. This was the first outing for Kinu and his first meeting with Lucy. They loved playing together. Every blogspot needs to show off their dogs, you know.

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