Cold and Foggy Morning

The boat dock at Beeswax Creek Park looks cantilevered into space.

The sun was up, but hard to see for the dense fog

The water was silky smooth.

One old guy (no comments from the peanut gallery, please) did launch his old flat bottomed johnboat to work his catfish trotlines like he does every day. He went very slowly, and this is all I could see from the dock.

The johnboat created only a tiny wake.

After a few minutes, you can't tell where the water stops and the fog starts.

As I was headed home, the fog had thinned a little and you could see all the way across Beeswax Creek, but it was still thick only a little downstream.

This guy finally decided to go ahead and launch. He was headed upstream to do a little bass fishing, but wanted to wait till he could see the water ahead pretty well. He had heard the main channel was full of floating logs washed into the lake by the recent heavy rains.

Remnant of a Summer Past

Poor Hawk

We heard a loud thump this morning and when I searched around outside, I found a juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk lying on the roof. We often have song birds fly into the windows, and sometimes they will lie still for a long while, but eventually come to and fly away. I let the hawk lie, and though he slid down the roof a little, he did not fly away. Eventually I retrieved him from the roof and after a couple of photos (the others are somewhat macabre) buried the poor fellow in our pet cemetery.

November Sunrise

There was a beautiful, but short, sunrise Saturday morning.

Helena Spillway

Our Catchlight small group visited the spillway on Buck Creek in Helena, Alabama Monday evening. Lovely lighting, but I kept trying to figure out what the small handprint in the lower left was. It was actually a reflection from the office building across the creek.

This is the building that was reflected in the photo above.

Yeah, it's a composite, but the moon was blowing out to get the spillway and it was too tiny to tell it was the moon.

What the . . .?

At first I thought it was a Lady Bug, but . . . no, it's not!

November Camellia

This Camellia blooms in November, while others in our yard bloom in January and February. They're always beautiful when they do, though.