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Summer Trails

Mid-summer and out looking for bugs, or birds, or basically any wildlife, and I caught this view of a hiking trail leading up through the

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Assortment of Butterflies

Peck’s Skipper butterflies Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly Clouded Sulphur butterfly Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfl Small White butterfly Red Admiral butterfly Horace’s Duskywing butterfly Horace’s Duskywing butterfly

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Lefferts Pond in August

BRENT PENNINGTON – View across Chittenden Reservoir, VT, past No-Bear Island, on the morning of 20 August 2023. BRENT PENNINGTON – Eastern view across Lefferts

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Trumpeter Swan

A visit to Promised Land State Park a few weeks back, on an unusually cool summer morning, didn’t yield the morning light and sunrise images

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Monarch Arrival

First Monarch butterfly of the season.  There were none, and then in the course of three days I found several of them across different locations,

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Broad-necked Root Borer

After an early evening rain I stepped out to see what I might find around my backyard and gardens.  These little walks are pleasant on

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Honeybee

A honeybee hard at work pollinating my oregano.  The joy of macro photography comes from the detail that’s revealed.  Individual pollen grains become visible, and

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Summer Morning

Summertime is painted in gold tones.  The light is warm, and so are the days, the temperature often rising too high for my taste.  Mornings

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Least Skipper

Another member of the skipper family of butterflies, this is the aptly-named Least Skipper.  The scale is a bit lost in these photos, but the

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