Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

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.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Predicting a White Christmas?

The icy fingers of Winter grabbed us very early this year and our heat pump has not been able to keep up with the wind and cold over  the last few weeks.  This is a shot from last winter...but none the less echoes what we've been feeling here on the Coast. The volunteer cedar trees that I left to mature are lending wonderful haven to the doves however, and seems we have a lot of doves in the yard lately. Just last week, there were a dozen doves sitting --- enjoying the sun, among the leaves and grass. It was hard to see their purplish gray bodies all balled up among the brown leaves.
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